Materials

• Preferred teacher resources
• Teacher-developed class notes
• Teacher-selected reading, writing, or other reinforcement activity

Instructional Activities

1. Review the content from the previous session.
   
   
2. Encourage students to suggest inventions or innovations that could be introduced to make life easier.
   
   
3. Encourage students to suggest what the world would be like without the various innovations of the Industrial Revolution.
   
   
4. Discuss the impact of the Industrial Revolution on industrialized countries, using the Essential Knowledge from standard WHII.8a. Display or distribute teacher-developed class notes.
   
   
5. Assign a teacher-selected reading, writing, or other reinforcement activity.