Industralization 1865-1905

Objective: Explain how innovations changed and transformed work and daily life in the United States.

Do Now: How did daily American life change after the Second Industrail Revolution?
Answer: More Americans worked in factories, electricity and the light buld changed the way Americans worked and technology innovations provided American with more free time and transportations and communication innovations allowed American to travel and communicate faster and further this innovations also brough people and the nation closer together.

Work Session: In cooperative groups students to create, record and edit an informative commercial/skit. Students media should work from the prespective "What if the Second Industrial Revolution had not happened"? Skit should either convey how American life could be different or how American life was effected by at least three different aspects of the Second Industrial Revolution or innovations. Students may work from a postive or negative perspective.

Homework: Essential Question: Paragraph Response
What impact did technological innovations of the late 1800's have on businesses, the nature of work and the American labor movement?