The text is written in chronological order, making it easy for students to follow how inventions, transportation, labor, and technology transformed the United States. This is one of my newest units, and many of my social studies units have been best sellers for years—be sure to check the preview!

What information is included in the unit?

• ★ Thomas Newcomen’s first steam engine
• ★ James Hargreave’s Spinning Jenny
• ★ James Watt’s new design for a steam engine
• ★ James Fitch’s steam engine design
• ★ Samuel Slater’s first cotton mill
• ★ Eli Whitney’s cotton gin
• ★ Richard Trevithick’s steam-powered locomotive
• ★ Robert Fulton’s steamboat and commercial steamboat company
• ★ Government roads
• ★ George Stephenson’s steam locomotive
• ★ The Erie Canal
• ★ First public railway
• ★ Peter Cooper’s Tom Thumb steam engine
• ★ First commercial steam engine
• ★ Cyrus McCormick’s mechanical reaper
• ★ John Deere’s steel plow
• ★ Joseph Dart and Robert Dunbar’s grain elevator
• ★ Charles Goodyears’ rubber
• ★ Samuel Morse’s telegraph
• ★ Elisha Howe’s sewing machine
• ★ Elisha Otis’s safety brake for elevators
• ★ Henry Bessemer’s steel production
• ★ Transcontinental Railroad
• ★ The National Labor Union
• ★ The Knights of Labor
• ★ George Brayton’s first combustion engine
• ★ Joseph Glidden’s barbed wire
• ★ Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone
• ★ Thomas Edison’s incandescent lightbulb
• ★ George Eastman’s camera
• ★ Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz’s modern-style cars
• ★ The American Federation of Labor
• ★ Guglielmo Marconi’s machine to transmit radio waves
• ★ Wilbur and Orville Wright’s airplane
• ★ The National Child Labor Committee
• ★ Reginald Fessenden’s broadcast music and entertainment over the radio
• ★ Benjamin Holt’s gasoline-powered tractor
• ★ Henry Ford’s Model T on the assembly line
• ★ The end of the Industrial Revolution

Now available in PDF, Google Slides, and PowerPoint, making it perfect for classroom instruction, distance learning, and hybrid teaching.

What is included?

• 3-week daily/weekly pacing plan
• 14 informational text articles with comprehension questions
• Cover Page
• Student timelines
• End-of-unit project (Analyze an invention) with rubric
• Student digital versions for at-home or remote learning
• Self-check review (Google Slides + PowerPoint)
• Google Forms quiz for automatic grading
• Study guide
• Industrial Revolution test
• Half-page informational text booklet
• Answer keys for all activities

Skills Students Practice for cross-curricular learning

• Cause and effect
• Text evidence & text-dependent analysis
• Inference & prediction
• Chronological order
• Compare and contrast
• Point of view
• Opinion writing
• Writing across content areas
• Map reading & interpretation
• Text connections
• 5 W’s (who, what, when, where, why)

Perfect For

• Upper elementary & middle school U.S. History
• Social studies & ELA integration
• Test prep
• Independent or small-group instruction
• Distance learning & sub plans

(Be careful not to put this resource on a public website. For copyright purposes, websites need to be password-protected.)

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