Industrialization+Inventors

=Project:=


 * Each team member must research an innovator / inventor in the industry assigned.
 * Each team must collaborate to create a PowerPoint presentation using individual member research and team research to present new knowledge to the class and teacher that explains the team answer to this Essential Question:

Some answers to questions like these (and others you have) will help:

 * Who or what inspired the innovator / inventor?
 * What problem did s/he "solve"?
 * How was the industry affected by the change? (What was the impact of the innovation / invention on the industry?)
 * What have been some of the positve impacts of these changes for society?
 * What have been some of the negative impacts of these changes for society?

=Sources:=

General Biography Sites
[|The Black Inventor Online Museum] [|EBSCO Host] History Reference Center (See Mrs. McCabe for Password) [|iConn] Biography Resource Center (At home you'll need your library card number.) [|Inventor of the Week] [|Inventors 1851 - 1899] [|Inventors 1900 - 1925] [|Zoom Inventors and Inventions] [|Human Impact: Technological Developments] [|Science and Technology: Industrial Revolution] [|Industrial Revolution] - lots of information on impacts here, so skim, scan, and scroll

Inventions
[|19th Century Innovation Timeline] [|About.com 19th Century Inventions] [|American History Online] Interactive History [|National Inventors Hall of Fame] (select By the Decade)

Specific Innovator / Inventor Hotlist
[|Innovators by Industry Chart] [|Industrialization Innovators Inventors]

Worth "Site Seeing"
[|Inventors of the Industrial Revolution] [|Inventors of the Industrial Revolution] - Greece Athena Middle School