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World History 1450 to Present: Industrial Revolution  

Course Numbers: SS.WDHST1 and SS.WDHST2

                                                                                                           
Overview

View the Video Introduction.  The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation had a profound effect on socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain and subsequently spread throughout Europe and North America and eventually the world, a process that continues as industrialization. The onset of the Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point in human social and economic history, comparable to the invention of farming; almost every aspect of daily life and human society was eventually influenced in some way.

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Course Overview

Standards

Enduring Understandings

  • Chronology organizes history and increases understanding of historical relationships.
  • Using historical data, events in history can be analyzed from multiple perspectives.
  • Societies are diverse and change over time.
  • Economic, scientific and technological developments impact human interactions.
  • Political power has been acquired, maintained, used and/or lost among various cultures throughout history
  • Religious and philosophical ideas have been powerful societal forces.
  • Maps, charts, and graphs are used to acquire, process and report information about people, places and environments.
  • Human migration impacts cultural development of societies.

  • Human and physical systems interact and impact one another.

Essential Questions

  • Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?  Why there?  What were its regional and worldwide effects?

  • What were the social and economic effects of the Industrial Revolution?

  • How did economic philosophies develop and impact the Industrial Revolution? How did philosophical perspectives differ?

Standards and Benchmarks

History 1: Students understand the chronological organization of history and know how to organize events and people into major eras to identify and explain historical relationships.    
Benchmark B: Students use chronology to organize historical events and people.
History
  2: Students know how to use the processes and resources of historical inquiry.
Benchmark 2ormation (e.g., letters, diaries, literature, text, newspaper, art, music, technology, oral history, interviews).

History 3
: Students understand that societies are diverse and change over time.
Benchmark  B: Students understand the history of social organization in various societies.
History 4
: Students understand how science, technology, and economic activity have developed, changed, and affected societies throughout history.
Benchmark  A: Students understand the impact of scientific and technological developments on individuals and societies.
History
 5: Students understand political institutions and theories that developed and changed over time.
Benchmark C: Students know how political power has been acquired, maintained, used and/or lost throughout history.
History
6: Students know that religious and philosophical ideas have been powerful forces throughout history.
Benchmark  C: Students know how various forms of expression reflect religious beliefs and philosophical ideas.
Geography
1: Students know how to use and construct maps, globes, and other geographic tools to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments.
Benchmark  A: Students know how to use maps, globes, and other geographic tools to acquire, process and report information from a spatial perspective.

Geography
 2:  Students know the physical and human characteristics of places, and used knowledge to
Benchmark B:  Students know how and why people define regions
.
Geography
 4:  Students understand how economic, political cultural, and social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation
and conflict.
Benchmark E: Students know how cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of the earth's surface.

Geography
5: Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and changes in meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
Benchmark  B: Students know how physical systems affect human systems.

D-11 Social Studies Indicators 

History

  1. Chronology/Cause & Effect: Determine cause and effect relationships based on organizing major historical and/or current events chronologically.
  1. Historical Inquiry: Utilizing multiple perspectives, analyze and question historical data from primary and secondary sources during major historical eras.
  1. Diverse and Changing Societies: Evaluate the impact of interactions and contributions of diverse peoples and cultures on past and current societies.
  1. Science, Technology, and Economic Activity:  Evaluate the impact of economic, scientific and technological developments on human interactions.
  1. Political Institutions and Theories: Analyze how political power has been acquired, maintained, used and/or lost among various cultures throughout history. 
  1. Religious and Philosophical Ideas: Determine how societies have been affected by religious and philosophical ideas.

Geography

  1. Use and Construction of Geographic Tools: Analyze maps, globes, charts, graphs, and databases to acquire, process and report information about people, places and environments. [G1]
  1. Characteristics of Place and Region: Use physical and human characteristics to define regions important in human history.[G2]
  1. Patterns of Human Population and Interaction: Analyze the physical and cultural impact of human migration.[G4]
  1. Human and Physical Systems:  Evaluate how human and physical systems interact and impact one another.[G5]

Sample Lessons

District 11 Diamond Units/Lessons Overview - includes information about the purpose, goals and structure of these sample instructional units:

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