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Welcome to our Digital Unit. Here we will explore and discuss about the wonders of America's second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Gilded Age. This unit will have 8th Grade Social Studies students focus on what life during this time period was like, the notable figures who lived during this era, as well as its impact on society as a whole.
Not only will we focus on the changes made during the Gilded Age and how it effected society, but we will also be learning about how these changes continue to affect our lives in the 21st century. We will investigates the lives of notable figures who lived during the Gilded Age such as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan and understand how they became the powerful industrialists (known as the Robber Barons). We will examine photos and learn about the hardships of child labors, strikes, and poverty with the help of digital medias and resources. This unit plan involves the uses of the internet, reading, and writing for your student researches as well as communication and group presentations as a part of your learning experiences.
Big Ideas:
By the end of this unit...
Throughout this unit, will we be addressing several content stands listed below:
California Content Standard 8.12 - Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social conditions in the United States in response to the Industrial Revolution.
8.12.1 Trace patterns of agricultural and industrial development as they relate to climate, use of natural resources, markets, and trade and locate such development on a map.
8.12.4 Discuss entrepreneurs, industrialists, and bankers in politics, commerce, and industry (eg. Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Leland Standford).
8.12.5 Examine the location and effects of urbanization, renewed immigration, and industrialization (e.g., the effects on social fabric of cities, wealth and economic opportunity, the conservation movement).
8.12.6 Discuss child labor, working conditions, and laissez-faire policies toward big business and examine the labor movement, including its leaders (e.g., Samuel Gompers), its demand for collective bargaining, and its strikes and protests over labor conditions.
8.12.7 Identify the new sources of large-scale immigration and the contributions of immigrants to the building of cities and the economy; explain the ways in which new social and economic patterns encouraged assimilation and newcomers into the mainstream amidst growing cultural diversity; and discuss the new wave of nativism.
8.12.9 Name the significant inventors and their inventions and identify how they improved the quality of life (e.g. Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Orville and Wilbur Wright).
Welcome to our Digital Unit. Here we will explore and discuss about the wonders of America's second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Gilded Age. This unit will have 8th Grade Social Studies students focus on what life during this time period was like, the notable figures who lived during this era, as well as its impact on society as a whole.
Not only will we focus on the changes made during the Gilded Age and how it effected society, but we will also be learning about how these changes continue to affect our lives in the 21st century. We will investigates the lives of notable figures who lived during the Gilded Age such as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan and understand how they became the powerful industrialists (known as the Robber Barons). We will examine photos and learn about the hardships of child labors, strikes, and poverty with the help of digital medias and resources. This unit plan involves the uses of the internet, reading, and writing for your student researches as well as communication and group presentations as a part of your learning experiences.
Big Ideas:
- Significance of impact: What is the impact of the Industrial Revolution on society as a whole? Identify some of the good as well as the bad impact the Gilded Age had on women, children, family, and businesses then and now. This is the era where society is transitioning from being agricultural to industrial and modern faster than ever.
- The Robber Barons: Do you know the significant men who contributed in the modern transitions of the country? How did they changed society as a small group with their own wealth and power? With all of their powers and influences, men such as Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan built America.
- 21st century influences: How did the inventions, the changes that affected society during the Gilded Age still influences our lives in the 21st century? Understand that many things that were changed during the second Industrial Revolution were important that they continue to affect our basic needs today.
By the end of this unit...
- Students will demonstrate knowledge and describe how industrialism affected the lives of Americans during the Gilded Age socially, economically, and politically.
- Students will be able to identify different historical figures during the Gilded Age, notably the Robber Barons such as Rockefeller and Carnegie, as well as investigate their histories, successes and failures, and how their corruptions made a big impact on American society as a whole.
- Students will compare and contrast American life and society during the Gilded Age and the 21st century and analyze the pros and cons of the effects and consequences brought on by the changes made during the second Industrial Revolution.
Throughout this unit, will we be addressing several content stands listed below:
California Content Standard 8.12 - Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social conditions in the United States in response to the Industrial Revolution.
8.12.1 Trace patterns of agricultural and industrial development as they relate to climate, use of natural resources, markets, and trade and locate such development on a map.
8.12.4 Discuss entrepreneurs, industrialists, and bankers in politics, commerce, and industry (eg. Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Leland Standford).
8.12.5 Examine the location and effects of urbanization, renewed immigration, and industrialization (e.g., the effects on social fabric of cities, wealth and economic opportunity, the conservation movement).
8.12.6 Discuss child labor, working conditions, and laissez-faire policies toward big business and examine the labor movement, including its leaders (e.g., Samuel Gompers), its demand for collective bargaining, and its strikes and protests over labor conditions.
8.12.7 Identify the new sources of large-scale immigration and the contributions of immigrants to the building of cities and the economy; explain the ways in which new social and economic patterns encouraged assimilation and newcomers into the mainstream amidst growing cultural diversity; and discuss the new wave of nativism.
8.12.9 Name the significant inventors and their inventions and identify how they improved the quality of life (e.g. Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Orville and Wilbur Wright).