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
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What is included?
✓ Daily/Weekly Plan (Total 3 weeks)
✓ Cover Page
✓ Timeline
✓ Informational text (14 articles) with comprehension questions
✓ End of Unit Project
✓ Study guide
✓ Test
✓ Student Version (These are great for DISTANCE LEARNING and AT HOME LEARNING!)
✓ 1/2 Page Informational Text Booklet
✓ Answer Keys
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What skills are covered?
✓ Cause and Effect
✓ 5 W’s
✓ Text Evidence
✓ Text Dependent Analysis
✓ Inference
✓ Connection
✓ Prediction
✓ Opinion
✓ Point of View
✓ Chronological Order
✓ Compare and Contrast
✓ Writing
✓ Map Reading
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