Title of Lesson: Industrial Revolutionist Fakebook

Grade Level: High School

Who was behind the Industrial
Revolution?
Using Fakebook show how one
industrialist/inventor brought about
change through his/her discoveries or
inventions.

Essential Question(s):

Lesson Objective:

SOC.9-12.: Industrial Revolution 1750-1914: Students analyze

Standard(s):

the emergence and effects of the Industrial Revolution in

England, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States.
SOC.9-12.W.10: Explain how scientific and technological
changes and new forms of energy brought about massive social,
economic, and cultural demographic changes including the
inventions and discoveries of James Watt, Eli Whitney, Henry
Bessemer, Louis Pasteur, and Thomas Edison.

World History High School

Content Area(s):

Biographies
Resources:
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Biography tab

(3 documents attached)

Fakebook template:
http://www.classtools.net/FB/home-page
Fakebook example:
http://www.classtools.net/FB/1487Avne5M
Fakebook Rubric attached
Fakebook Instructions attached
Industrialist
Industrial Revolution

Vocabulary:

Students choose one

industrialist/inventor from assigned list.
(list included at least 25 choices)

Activity Overview:
1 30-min. session for introduction/checking out
books
1 week for reading/researching on their own

Students read biographical information

from books and database, taking notes
on form (attached)

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1 block session for creating Fakebook

Students create their Fakebook profile

page following the rubric.

Created and Submitted by: Nancy Hindalong, Cane Ridge High School

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