Industrial Revolution Lesson Plan and Resources

(15 minutes) Vocabulary graffiti activity- terms on an index card, write words around it that are synonymous,
relate to or a picture that help identify the term
Complete worksheet with definitions and images.

(15 minutes) Lecture: Industrial Revolution, what labor looked like during the IR, why labor was the way it
was, why labor unions and strikes formed

(5 minutes) Students will receive a person of the IR that was a labor reformer, laborer, inventor or capitalist.

(10 minutes) Students will have guided instruction on research.

(25 minutes) Students will research their person and identify where they stood when it came to labor during
the IR, worksheet to be filled out

*While students are researching, check in with students

(5 minutes) Exit ticket form, provide at least one resource and piece of evidence to use for “speed dating”

Homework: Prepare for the next class period, students will “speed date” to meet as many IR people as
possible.

Future Homework: On a schoology discussion board, answer who they believe to be the most influential
person in the labor force during the Industrial Revolution.

*Greet students as they arrive in class

Allow current events to connect to students
Collect cell phones in phone pockets
Use of bathroom and hall passes

Exit ticket on research gathered in class.

Make sure students have the worksheet for their research.