Introduction
The Industrial Revolution was a time of great upheaval and change worldwide. You will have the opportunity to learn about this exciting period in history as you create a project to teach the class about one aspect of the Industrial Revolution.
Task
In your groups, you are to research and examine an aspect of the Industrial Revolution, and then present your findings to the class. You and your group will provide information to your classmates in a 10 minute presentation during which you may use posters, overheads, pictures, multi-media presentations and/or role-play. You must provide each person in the class a handout which contains information related to your topic. Each student will write a short paragraph answering the reflection questions below.
Each group will be assigned one of the following topics:
Agriculture
Child Labor
Communication
Factory System
Growth of Cities
Internal Combustion Engine
Iron and Steel Industry
Music, Art, and Literature
Steam Engine
Textiles and Mills
Transportation
Women's Rights
Reflection (Individual paragraph)
Process
The Process
Your presentation and handout must include the answers to the following questions:
1. What innovation/change occurred and how things were done before the Revolution?
2. Who was/were the main people involved in this change?
3. In which country did the innovation/change first take place?
4. How did the innovation/changes in this area affect the Industrial Revolution and/or people as a whole?
5. How are we affected by the innovation/change today?
Working in a group:
1. Examine various resources available to the group in the Library Media Center.
2. Answer the questions.
3. Share your answers with the group.
4. Plan how you will present these answers.
5. Create the handout and provide a copy a block period before the presentation.
6. Let your teacher know at least one day in advance if you need special equipment for your presentation.
Evaluation
| Judging Criteria | Outstanding 3 |
Adequate 2 |
Poor 1 |
Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Research/Preparation for Presentation |
Student makes good use of time provided and uses a variety of quality resources (based on availability according to topic. | Student does an adequate job during time provided. Student uses an adequate number of resources. | Student does a less than acceptable job on research. | |
| Presentation | Covers topic thoroughly and delivers presentation reflectively. | Does an adequate job on presentation. | Does a les than adequate presentation. | |
| Handout | Outstanding job on handout. | Adequate job on handout. | Less than adequate job on handout. | |
| Reflective Paragraph | Student does an outstanding job of reflecting and writes an outstanding paragraph. | Student writes an adequate reflective paragraph. | Student's reflective paragraph is of poor quality. | |
| Cooperation Participation Attention | Student's decorum in research and/or group work and/or presentations is excellent. | Student's decorum in research and/or group work and/or presentations is acceptable. | Student's decorum in research and/or group work and/or presentations is unacceptable. | |
Credits
The inspiration for this webquest was an original webquest by:Pat Sullivan and Alicia Cornelio 2005