GENERAL INFORMATION Mercedes Szuch Oberlin High School LEECA, Elyria Title of companion action plan: The Industrial Revolution Grades 9-12 Curriculum/Subject Area: Social Studies/World History Specific Topic: Most important inventions of Industrial Revolution CONTENT INFORMATION Brief Summary: Students will investigate inventions and inventors of the Industrial Revolution. Dewey Numbers: 330.942; 331.25; 338.45; 609; 909.81; 940.28 Subject Headings: Industrial Revolution; Inventions and Inventors; 19th century-social conditions; Technology-social aspects CONTENT CATEGORIES Books C The Industrial Revolution by Patrick Rooke C Iron Bridge to Crystal Palace: impact and images of the Industrial Revolution by Asa Br iggs C A Sweatshop during the Industrial Revolution by Adam Woog C Eureka!: great inventions and how they happened by Richard Platt C What a great idea!: inventions that changed the world by Stephen M. Tomecek C Great inventions by Charles Greeley Abbot C Famous first facts: a record of first happenings, discoveries, and inventions in American history by Joseph Nathan Kane C American decades: 1900-1909 edited by Vincent Tompkins C The 1900s by Adam Woog C This fabulous centur y: 1870-1900 by the editors of Time-Life Books C Growing up in a new century, 1890 to 1914 by Judith Pinkerton Josephson C 100 great modern lives; makers of the world today from Faraday to Kennedy Web sites http://inventors.about.com/library/bl/bl12.htm http://www.ideafinder.com/history/timeline.htm Smithsonian Institute National Inventors Hall of Fame Infohio Electronic Resources Encyclopedia Britannica Annals of American History Access Science EbscoHost Media (Videos) The Industrial Revolution in England / Encyclopaedia Britannica The 20th century: the 1900s : seeds of progress