World History · Week 8 · The Industrial Revolution
Machines That Changed Everything
Students examine how steam power and new inventions remade daily life at different speeds and practice strategies for coping when change feels too fast.
- Students will
- Students examine how steam power, railroads, and new machines changed work, travel, and daily life at different speeds, and identify what changed and what stayed the same.
- SEL skill
- Choose a coping strategy when change feels too fast
- What it looks like
- Students practice strategies for coping when change feels too fast.
- Content focus
- Machines that changed everything
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-management
Self-management is steering your feelings, thoughts, and actions in a way that helps you reach a goal. More self-management activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- 10.3.2: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 10: World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World (standard 10.3, item 2)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: CST2 Analyze how change happens at different rates at different times, and how it affects values and beliefs as well as technology and politics. (Chronological and Spatial Thinking)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.His.2.9-12 Analyze change and continuity in historical eras.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.2 Determine the central ideas of a primary or secondary source and summarize them accurately.
Fits these textbook chapters
- Modern World History, An Age of Democracy and Progress
- History Alive! World Connections, Lesson 16: The Industrial Revolution
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