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Here are the teacher pack items for Industrial Revolution:
Overview In this experience, students first brainstorm the importance of interchangeable parts. Then they explore how the Industrial Revolution led to a change in work conditions. Next they explain the rise of urbanization and contrast typical life in the northern states before and after the Industrial Revolution. Finally they evaluate the factories as free-enterprise systems and create a chart of positive and negative results of the Industrial Revolution. The Teacher Pack includes a link to a video that discusses the unintended consequences of the cotton gin and its impact on the growth of slavery. If you did not play the video for the class during the “Southern Plantations” experience, you may choose to do so during this lesson. The video ties the two experiences together and can help students synthesize the information. Students were introduced to the Lowell Mill girls in the previous experience. The Student Pack contains a link to an optional article about them and how the mill work changed their lives. If you have access to leveled readers that include a biography of Eli Whitney or stories about life in a tenement, assign them to the students in parallel to this experience. Estimated duration: 40-50 minutes Vocabulary words: Objectives
In colonial times, household items like fabric and cookware were made in homes or small shops The Industrial Revolution began in Europe during the 1700s. As factories began to use water and steam power, manufacturing and productivity increased. The Industrial Revolution in the United States began in the late 1700s. During that period, factories like the Lowell Mills began to manufacture textiles. In this experience, you will learn about some of the changes in the United States in general, and the northern states in particular, as a result of the Industrial Revolution.
Objectives
Young spinners in Elk Cotton Mills, Fayetteville, Tennessee, 1910.
According to the photograph notes, the youngest girl hardly knew her name.
Youngest boy earned ten cents a day.
You learned about Eli Whitney’s invention, the cotton gin, and the impact it had on the southern economy. Whitney introduced another innovation, interchangeable parts. To understand what interchangeable parts are, imagine that you work in a factory on the machine shown below. The machine itself was made in a factory.
Now imagine that the machine broke. What steps might you took to fix it?
First, define interchangeable: (items) so similar or identical that they can be replaced with one another. Then build on the students’ ideas. Before interchangeable parts, someone would need to build a replacement part that fit that machine precisely. Once parts were standardized, any part designed to fit that type of machine could be kept in stock and used on demand.
