Lesson 3: The Industrial Revolution
Duration of Days: 3
Lesson Objective
Students will explain how industrialization transformed production, labor, and economic systems beginning in the late eighteenth century.
Why did industrialization begin where it did?
How did industrialization change work and daily life?
industrialization, factory system, steam engine, capitalism, urbanization
APWH Unit 5 Topic 5.4
Skill 4.A
Reasoning Process: Causation
Interpreting data, charts, and informational texts.
This lesson introduces the causes and early impacts of industrialization.
Purpose: Build understanding of economic transformation
DOK: 3
Automation, labor change, and economic inequality today.
Students may view industrialization as entirely positive or negative.
Visual data analysis; scaffolded writing prompts.
Data-based multiple-choice questions.
Economic graphs, factory illustrations