World History · Week 7 · The Industrial Revolution
Why England First
Students map the coal, rivers, capital, and labor that let England industrialize first and take stock of the resources they bring to solving their own problems.
- Students will
- Students analyze how coal, rivers, capital, stable government, and labor made England the first industrial nation and explain how geography and people interacted.
- SEL skill
- Take stock of your own resources before choosing how to solve a problem
- What it looks like
- Students take stock of the resources they bring to solving their own problems.
- Content focus
- Why England first
- Format
- Small group problem-solving
Responsible decision-making
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What you get
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Standards
- 10.3.1: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 10: World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World (standard 10.3, item 1)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: CST4 Relate current events to the physical and human characteristics of places and regions. (Chronological and Spatial Thinking)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.Geo.4.9-12 Analyze the interactions within and between human and physical systems and how each influences the other.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.7 Integrate quantitative or technical analysis, such as charts and maps, with information in a text.
Fits these textbook chapters
- Modern World History, The Industrial Revolution
- Modern World History, An Age of Democracy and Progress
- History Alive! World Connections, Lesson 14: Era Overview: An Age of Global Revolutions, 1700s to 1914
- History Alive! World Connections, Lesson 16: The Industrial Revolution
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