TOPIC 1 - INDUSTRIALIZATION

Topic Overview Lesson

LESSON MISSION

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This lesson mission is your goal for the day.  It is what you (the student) will be able to do when the lesson is over.

I can define Industrialization and list the major factors that led to U.S. industrialization in the Gilded Age.

LESSON READING

The Industrialization Component

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Industrialization is when the people of a country move away from farming as their main way of making money and begin manufacturing goods and services as their main way of making money.  In the United States, there were many factors that led to industrialization.  It started with an abundance of natural resources and it was all about solving problems to grow a bigger and better nation.

U.S. industrialization is the first of the eight major "component gear wheels" that made up the Gilded Age.  There were eight major issues and events that were the "teeth and groves" of the industrialization gear wheel.  These were the factory system, natural resources, connecting the nation, new technology, changes in production, new industries, big business, and industrialists.
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TOPIC 1 LESSONS
Lesson 1:  The Factory System

Lesson 2:  Natural Resources Start 
                   It All

Lesson 3:  Connecting the Nation

Lesson 4:  New Energy Sources

Lesson 5:  Changes in Production

Lesson 6:  New Industries Seal the 
                   Deal

Lesson 7:  The Big Business Blob

Lesson 8:  Captains of Industry or 
                   Robber Barons?

WHOLE GROUP ACTIVITY

Video Snippet

To get an idea about the factors involved in U.S. Industrialization, we will watch the following video as a class by the History Channel called, The Industrial Revolution.  We will all watch it together on the t.v., but I have embedded it here for anyone absent or if you want to watch it again at home.

SMALL GROUP ACTIVITY

Making Predictions

Look at the diagram below of the "Industrialization Gear Wheel".  As a small group look at each tooth of the wheel.  What do predict each of these "Factor Teeth" will cover?  As a group, discuss what you think.  Everyone must predict something different.  One member in each group needs to submit the group's answers on the survey below the picture of the gear wheel.  As a class, we will look at every groups' predictions when every group is done.
Group Survey

INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY

Lesson Chronicles

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  1. Enter this lesson into your Lesson Chronicles' Tables of Contents.
  2. Set up your entry for today's lesson by titling your paper and dating it.
  3. Write the Lesson Mission.
  4. Under the Lesson Mission, prove you have met today's mission goal by answering the following question in PQA format:

What was Industrialization and what were the major factors that led to U.S. industrialization in the Gilded Age?
                                       Lesson Chronicles Table of Contents

1.  Unit 1 Overview Lesson - The Gilded Age
2.  Topic 1 Overview Lesson - Industrialization
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Topic 1 Overview Lesson - Industrialization


Lesson Mission:  I can define Industrialization and list the major factors that led to U.S. industrialization in the Gilded Age.


Industrialization is ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. The eight major factors that led to U.S. industrialization were _________________,  _________________,  _________________,  _________________,  __________________,  _________________,  _________________, __________________.
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Congratulations! 
You have completed the Topic 1 Introduction Lesson Module!