Unit 3: Industrial Revolution

Unit Description:

Stage 1- Desired Results

Essential Questions

How did the Industrial Revolution impact World History?

What were the social, political, and economic implications of the Industrial Revolution?

Were there more positive or more negative effects associated with the Industrial Revolution?

Enduring Understandings

Students understand that...

Innovations in agriculture, production, and transportation led to the Industrial Revolution, which originated in Western Europe and spread over time to Japan and other regions. This led to major population shifts and transformed economic and social systems.

Common Core Standards and Performance Indicators:

Unifying Themes:

Development, Movement, and Interaction of Cultures

Time, Continuity, and Change

Geography, Humans, and the Environment

Development and Transformation of Social Structures

Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems

Science, Technology, and Innovation

Social Studies Content Area Standards:

1. World History
2. Geography
3. Economics
4. Civics, Citizenship, and Government

Social Studies Practices (begin on page 3)

Common Core Learning Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science,and Technical Subjects (begins on page 76)

Knowledge

Students know that...

10.3a Agricultural innovations and technologies enabled people to alter their environment, allowing them to increase and support farming on a large scale.

10.3b Factors including new economic theories and practices, new sources of energy, and technological innovations influenced the development of new communication and transportation systems and new methods of production. These developments had numerous effects.

Skills

Students will be able to...

Students will examine the agricultural revolution in Great Britain.
Students will analyze the factors and conditions needed to industrialize and to expand industrial production, as well as shifts in economic practices.

10.3c Shifts in population from rural to urban areas led to social changes in class structure, family structure, and the daily lives of people.

10.3d Social and political reform, as well as new ideologies, developed in response to industrial growth.

Students will examine the economic theory presented in The Wealth of Nations.
Students will examine changes and innovations in energy, technology, communication, and transportation that enabled industrialization.

Students will investigate the social, political, and economic impacts of industrialization in Victorian England and Meiji Japan and compare and contrast them.
Students will investigate suffrage, education, and labor reforms, as well as ideologies such as Marxism, that were intended to transform society.

Key Terms:

Agricultural Revolution

mass production

interchangeable parts

textile

steam engine

child labor

entrepreneurs

laissez faire

mercantilism

natural resources

assembly line