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MPS/MOEC Teaching American History Grant Lesson Plan Template
Teacher’s Name: Darrin Comstock
District: Millard Public Schools Date Submitted: 12/21/2006
Lesson Title: Inventions and Inventors of the American Industrial Revolution
NE Standards Overview
This lesson helps students develop an understanding of how
the inventions that were introduced in the Industrial
Revolution helped impact the growth and development of our
nation. Students will be able to explain what impact the
inventions of Samuel Slater, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton,
Samuel Morse, and Cyrus McCormick had on daily life in the
United States.
Age Level 8-9 Established Goals (Learning Objectives)
To understand the impact inventions have on life in America and how
they help shape the course of events to come.
Duration 3-5 days Understandings (Background Knowledge)
Students will need to have an understanding of how and why the
Industrial Revolution started in America. They will also need to have
an understanding of what life was like before the Industrial
Revolution in America,
The Creating America 8th Grade Textbook, They Made America by
Howard Evans, and Power points will be used to deliver background
information.
Materials Essential Questions (Engaging Question)
Projection Cart These questions will be on the projection screen as the students enter
Photographs of class:
inventions and 1. What was life like in America before 1800? What areas of life
inventors of the might need improvement?
period. 2. What inventions have helped improve your life in 2006 and
Class notes what impact have they had on society?
Handouts from 3. What is there in your life that could be improved by a new
They Made invention?
America Highlight the fact that every era and generation has inventions
-paper that are created to help improve their way of life.
Learning Activities (Procedure)
Day 1: Power point/Discussion on Early Inventors and Inventions
A. Industrial Revolution
B. Factory System/Samuel Slater
C. Interchangeable parts
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D. Lowell Mills
FACTORY ACTIVITY: Get two groups of 5 students and
hand out parts, glue, tape, scissors, and stapler. One group will
all be in one row, the other group will be spread out across the
room. Have them put together their product. Students will see
first hand the benefits of the factory system.
Day 2: Power point/discussion
A. Robert Fulton/Steamboat
B. Samuel Morse/Telegraph
C. Cyrus McCormick/Reaper
D. Eli Whitney/Cotton Gin
Hand out Inventors and Inventions Instruction Sheet
Handouts from They Made America by Howard Evans.
The students will need to complete the following tasks:
Each student will be researching Cyrus McCormick, Samuel Slater .Eli
Whitney, Robert Fulton, and Samuel Morse. They will be answering the
following questions
Part I: Who – What –Why? Answer the following questions for each
of the inventors listed on your Instruction sheet.
1. What did they invent?
2. Why was this invention needed?
3. How did this invention improve the task that it was designed for?
4. What impact did this invention have on society or our country?
5. What inventions came along that replaced or improved the task
that they were invented for?
Part II: Invention Creation (Optional)
Find the original patent for one of the inventions we discussed in
class. Use this website to help you. http://www.uspto.gov/patft/
Take a look at the patent and notice what is included on it.
Next, you are going to create an invention of your own and create
a patent application. Think of something you could invent that
will help improve an area of life today. Write a paragraph which
includes what the product is, what it does, and why you selected it.
Then I want you to use the U.S. Patent Handout that we passed out
to draw a picture of your invention.
Day 3-4: Students will go to the Computer Lab to do further research
on their inventors and inventions. They will be going to pre-
selected web sites to look for information. See questions in
Assessment Evidence section.
Day 4-5: Students will turn assignment. You can very the length of the
Assignment based on how much you want them to do our how many of
the activities you use. You can assign on those parts that you have time
for.
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Technology Links:
http://home.clara.net/rod.beavon/samuel.htm
http://web.mit.edu/invent/
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/atthtml/mrshome.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sfbmhtml/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/
http://www.eliwhitney.org/inventor.htm
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/whitney.html
http://www.robertfulton.org/
http://www.slatermill.org/html/history.html
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors
http://www.vaes.vt.edu/steeles/mccormick/bio.html
Differentiated Instructional Strategies (Learning Advice)
Select groups based on ability levels
Modification of Questions for SPED
Assessment Evidence:
Performance Tasks
Inventors and Inventions Assignment/paper, Invention Creation, and
classroom discussion
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