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Industrial Revolution (Exploring History Through Primary Sources)
Use original documents and photographs as well as letters, maps, cartoons, and posters to help students explore the past. Primary sources provide unique insight into the lives of people in different time periods. Each kit includes: 16 photographs and primary source documents--photo cards with background information, discussion questions, and suggested activities printed on the back; CD with photographs, other primary sources student activity sheets, and extension activities; and 80 page Teacher's Guide including lesson plans, background information, a wide variety of student activities, and a document-based assessment section to help students prepare for essays found on many standardized tests. Each kit also meets the NCSS standards for primary source documents. Photographs: Cotton gin; Standard Oil Company advertisement; Alexander Bell opening the New York to Chicago phone line; Children at work in a factory; Spinning Jenny design; One of the first assembly lines; Homestead Steel Strike; Early iron bridge. Other items: Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916; Map of the Union Pacific Railway; Early American inventions 1794 to 1906; Early steamboats; Western Union telegram about the First Flight; Andrew Carnegie political cartoon; Atlantic Cable Drawing; The first telegraph. This series has received the 2003 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers EdPress.
Manufacturer: Teacher Created Materials
SKU: 3932
Category: Primary Sources
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