Industrial Revolution Graveyard |
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Goal: Students
will create individual tombstones marking the lives and
achievements of leading inventors and innovators from the
Industrial Revolution.
Together, these tombstones will form a classroom
graveyard.
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Name of inventor/innovator
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Nationality/Birthplace
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Date of birth
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Date of death
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Three “bullet points” (facts)
about her/his achievements
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Epitaph (a
brief piece of
prose commemorating the deceased; can be a single sentence)
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Illustration |
List of Inventors
and Innovators: Abraham Darby Alexander Graham Bell Cyrus W. Field Edward Cartwright Eli Whitney Elias Howe George Stephenson George Westinghouse Gottlieb Daimler Guglielmo Marconi Henry Bessemer Henry Cort Henry Ford Isaac Singer James B. Hill James Hargreaves James Watt John Ericsson John Kay John McAdam John Smeaton Lee de Forest Leo Baekeland Nikola Tesla Orville Wright Ottmar Mergenthaler Richard Arkwright Richard Hoe Robert Fulton Rudolf Diesel Samuel Crompton Samuel F.B. Morse Samuel Slater Thomas Edison Thomas Newcomen Thomas Telford Vladimir Zworykin Wilbur Wright |
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| Click here for a printable version of this lesson plan sheet complete with instructions and grading rubric. |
Teaching tip: Give the
students copies of this sheet when explaining the assignment,
highlighting on individual sheets each student's assigned
inventor/innovator. When tombstones are complete, have the
kids turn in these sheets with their projects. Then fill
in the student's grades in the rubric table, making comments
below as needed. Tombstones are then displayed throughout
the classroom, and completed sheets with grades are returned to
the students. This way, grade confidentiality is not
compromised (as might happen if grades are placed directly on
the displayed tombstones). FYI: These lesson plans can be completed in the span of a single class period, but most students will want extra time for inspiration (regarding the epitaph and aesthetic quality). |
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