Industrialization and Urbanization Unit Plan

Name: Olivia Foor Class/Subject: 11th grade American Studies Student Objectives/Student Outcomes: Students will be able to recognize and explain the impact that the Industrial Revolution had on American society. Students will analyze documents from various viewpoints to better understand how the Industrial Revolution affected groups of people differently. Students will draw conclusions about various aspects of industrial society from photographs, primary documents, and political cartoons. Students will participate in simulations that will attempt to recreate situations present in industrial society in order to better connect with the material. Content Standards: (ISBE Social Science Standards) 16.A.4a Analyse and report historical events to determine cause-and-effect relationships. 16.B.5b (US) Analyze how United States political history has been influenced by the nations economic, social and environmental history. 16.C.4b (US) Analyze the impact of westward expansion on the United States economy. 16.C.4a (W) Describe the growing dominance of American and European capitalism and their institutions after 1500. 16.D.5 (US) Analyze the relationship between an issue in United States social history and the related aspects of political, economic and environmental history. 16.D.4 (W) Identify significant events and developments since 1500 that altered world social history in ways that persist today including colonization, Protestant Reformation, industrialization, the rise of technology and human rights movements. 16.E.5a (US) Analyze positive and negative aspects of human effects on the environment in the United States including damming rivers, fencing prairies and building cities. 16.E.5a (W) Analyze how technological and scientific developments have affected human productivity, human comfort and the environment. Material Covered: Chapters 14 &15 in The American Vision Teachers Goals: Present content in a way that engages students through pictures, limited notes, videos, and an abundance of questions. Provide students with an opportunity to engage with the material through various simulations, activities and projects that further develop their understanding of the Industrial Revolution. Create an environment that allows for meaningful discussion of the various positive and negative outcomes of the Industrial Revolution.

Day Week 1 Monday 02/17 Tuesday 02/18

Slides None None No School-Presidents Day

Activities

Wednesday None 02/19 Thursday Intro PP-All 02/20 Friday 02/21 Inventions PP-All

Students will read through Chapters 14 &15 and answer the Critical Thinking questions as an introduction to the content. Materials: Textbook Students will complete their summative assessment over the last unit of Westward Expansion. Introduction to the unit. Will lay out the major facets and characteristics of industrialization. Materials: Computer, Projector, Powerpoint Go over the inventions and their inventors that played a role in the expansion of industry. Overview the activity to be done on Monday as formative assessment. **Turn in Chapter 14 Critical Thinking Questions Materials: Computer, Projector, Powerpoint Industrialization Project: Inventions Activity First part of their overall project that they will be working on throughout the course of the unit. In this step they will work with a partner to come up with a new invention. Using the worksheet and questions provided they must sketch their invention, provide a description and discuss the impact they think it will have on society. **Turn in Inventions Activity (tomorrow if not done) Materials: Worksheet, Partner, Colored Pencils Get to know each other day. In order to create better relationships with the students, I want to take this day to talk and get to know each other better. I will create questions that we will all talk about. I also want to have them fill out a survey-type form so I know more about their personality, interests, etc. Materials: Survey sheets, Pre-made Question Slips Go over economics and business terminology Powerpoint. Explain how these factors led to greater industrialization, the various economic concepts and how those systems promoted big businesses. Introduce the Men Who Built America using a video from The History Channel and how these individuals shaped this era with their companies and actions. **Last day to turn in Inventions Activity Materials: Computer, Projector, Powerpoint Go over entrepreneurs and their businesses and how those shaped the industrialization period. Explain how these corporations made their money and how they were able to keep such high profits. Explain what kind of impact these people had on society, both

Week 2 Monday 02/24

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Tuesday 02/25

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Wednesday Economics 02/26 PP-All

Thursday 02/27

Big Business PP-All

Friday 02/28

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positive and negative. At the end we will compare their wealth to the average industrial worker in order to better understand why these workers started to form unions. Materials: Computer, Projector, Powerpoint Industrialization Project: Business Plan Activity Using the feedback I gave each group about their inventions, they must then use the next set of instructions to make a business plan regarding how they will produce it and make money off of it. Using the prompt given, the group must choose one of three options to pursue and then justify their decision based on our discussion of economics and big business. **Turn in Business Plan Activity Materials: Inventions project, Business worksheet

Week 3 Monday 03/03

Before starting the PP, give students a citizenship test similar to one given to new immigrants. After they finish, discuss their thoughts on the test and go over right answers. Find out how well they know their own country and discuss the fairness of making immigrants know these things. After this discussion, begin the PP on immigration. Materials:Computer, Projector, Powerpoint, Citizenship Worksheet Tuesday Immigration Finish up immigration PP. 03/04 PP Document Analysis: Immigration Give students two documents to read and answer questions about. These documents will be from two different perspectives: one being an immigrants story of his journey to the US and the other will come from an anti-immigration group outlining why immigration will hurt the country. Materials: Computer, Projector, Powerpoint, Documents Wednesday Urbanization Start class off with a simulation of life in a tenement. Mark of 13 03/05 PP sq. feet in the classroom and make 12 students try to find a comfortable way to sleep all of them. This will simulate actual statistics of number of people in this small of a space. After simulation, start PP. Talk about how the cities were overcrowded and unsanitary due to the huge migration of people to cities during the IR. Materials: Computer, Projector, Powerpoint, Masking Tape Thursday Urbanization This part of the section will outline the environmental consequences 03/06 PP of growing cities in America. We will look at what it did to the fresh water, what it did to human health, and how it affected the living conditions in cities (i.e. pollution, smog, etc). **Turn in Document Analysis Materials: Computer, Projector, Powerpoint Friday Jacob Riis Picture Analysis: Jacob Riis 03/07 PP We will spend the day looking at various pictures of life in the cities through the work of Jacob Riis. We will look at various

Immigration PP-

pictures together and analyze what it tells us about that time period. I will then give them a packet of pictures to look at on their own. They will write a few sentences about each and then must come up with a title for the picture based on the images. Materials: Computer, Projector, Powerpoint, Picture Packet Week 4 Monday 03/10 Labor PP Start section on labor. This day will focus on an overview of conditions, wages, hours, and impacts on society. **Turn in Picture Analysis Materials: Computer, Projector, Powerpoint Will focus on child and womens labor. The PP will contain a lot of pictures, outlining the dangers, social consequences of having these two groups in the workforce and some of the major disasters that led to later reform, such as the Triangle Shirt Company fire. Materials: Computer, Projector, Powerpoint After discussing many of the hardships workers face, we will look at the rise of unions and their role in creating awareness and calls for reform. We will discuss the various strikes (Pullman, Haymarket) and how those events changed the way people viewed unions and industrial laborers. Materials: Computer, Projector, Powerpoint Document Analysis: Labor Students will read and analyze primary documents dealing with the labor situation during this time period. Students will look at documents from a variety of viewpoints and industries and then answer questions about each of the documents. Materials: Document Packets This section will focus on the Gilded Age ideas and reforms that were ushered in as a result of the conditions present in the Industrial Revolution. The labor policies, government policies, immigration policies, business policies, and social policies. This will let students see how the period of industrialization brought about a lot of the laws we have today, especially in regards to big businesses and labor. **Turn in Document Analysis Materials: Computer, Projector, Powerpoint Industrialization Project: Reform Activity As a wrap up of the unit, students will reflect on how the new reform policies of the era will affect their companies and their personal profits. They will reflect on their actions throughout the course of the project and talk about what they think they would have done differently if given the chance. Materials: Reform Worksheet Review for Summative Test. Students will have this time to fill out a review sheet and ask any questions they have about the material

Tuesday 03/11

Labor PP

Wednesday Labor PP 03/12

Thursday 03/13

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Friday 03/14

Reform PP

Week 5 Monday 03/17

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Tuesday 03/18

Wednesday None 03/19 Thursday None 03/20 Friday None 03/21

before the test. **Turn in Reform Activity Summative Test. Materials: Test Day-SIP & Parent/Teacher Conferences Wrap-up Movie No School-Parent/Teacher Conferences