Inventors and the Rise of Big Business

1. Inventors and the Rise of Big Business Utilizing the Text: Chapter 8, Supplementary Readings

2. Standards: SS5H3: The student will describe how life changed in America at the turn of the century. What does this standard indicate what fifth graders must master to show understanding of this content? Element b: Describe the impact on American life of the Wright brothers (flight), George Washington Carver (science), Alexander Graham Bell (communication), and Thomas Edison (electricity).

3. Lesson Objective and Essential Question Day 1 • Objective: Students will identify and describe in paragraph form an inventor and his impact on American society. • Essential Question: Describe how the inventors during the early 1900's impact the lives of Americans.

4. Some of you might be thinking….What is the big deal, that was then and this is now! Your job today is to discover what is so important about these inventors from the 1900’s. What did they invent? Why should we care? How is it what they created has become important to American Society ? Using your sharp, keen reading and detecting skills, your graphic organizer, your fluency partner, and your incredible inference skills to solve this case. Determine why these inventors are important in history.

5. Steps to solve this case Read the text with your fluency partner. As your reading, locate the answers to the questions in your graphic organizer. (Be prepared to discuss and show where you came up with your answers as teachers circulate around) Write your answers in sentence form on your graphic organizer. Be sure you model your sentence writing strategy! (Use your question in the beginning) Be sure to capitalize and punctuation your sentence (s) correctly. You may use your text book as a resource if you would like an additional text resource. (Wright Brothers: 332, Carver: 209, Bell: 259, Edison 264-265)

6. Let’s Review your graphic organizer…. Reminder…each days score today will be averaged together to get a grade for this investigation

7. Let’s exercise your brain! What have you learned today! BRAIN CHECK MOMENT…. Directions: Think about the inventor that you have discussed in class today. Reread your essential question from today’s lesson. Write a paragraph describing what you have discovered about just one inventor that you have studied. Include an illustration about that inventor in the space provided. (Think: Who, what, why, when, where, how…) Essential Question: Describe how the inventors during the early 1900's impact the lives of Americans. I have chosen to write about ___________________________________

8. Lesson Objective and Essential Question Day 2 • Objective: Students will identify and describe in paragraph form an inventor and his impact on American society. • Essential Question: Describe how the inventors during the early 1900's impact the lives of Americans.

9. To start today let’s review…. Let’s look at some Brain Check Moments to see what we are thinking about this concept we are studying…. Did you really stretch your thoughts?

10. So now you thinking…I have got this historical investigation thing down….well let’s see if we can separate the “men from the boys!” What learning partners will rise to the top today? Again your job is to discover what is so important about these inventors from the 1900’s. What did they invent? Why should we care? How is what they created, important to American Society in the 1900’s, and even today? Using your reading skills, your graphic organizer, your fluency partner, and your incredible inference skills to solve this case. Determine why these inventors are so important in history!

11. Steps to solve this case Read the text with your fluency partner. As your reading, locate the answers to the questions in your graphic organizer. (Be prepared to discuss and show where you came up with your answers as teachers circulate around) Write your answers in sentence form on your graphic organizer. Be sure you model your sentence writing strategy! (Use your question in the beginning) Be sure to capitalize and punctuation your sentence (s) correctly. You may use your text book as a resource if you would like an additional text resource. (Wright Brothers: 332, Carver: 209, Bell: 259, Edison 264-265)

12. Let’s Review your graphic organizer…. Reminder…each days score today will be averaged together to get a grade for this investigation

13. Let’s determine what you have learned today! BRAIN CHECK MOMENT…. Directions: Think about the inventor that you have discussed in class today. Reread your essential question from today’s lesson. Write a paragraph describing what you have discovered about just one inventor that you have studied. Include an illustration about that inventor in the space provided. (Think: Who, what, why, when, where, how…) Essential Question: Describe how the inventors during the early 1900's impact the lives of Americans. I have chosen to write about ___________________________________

14. Lesson Objective and Essential Question Day 3 • Objective: Students will determine what led to the rise of Big Business in the 1900’s and how this changed the economy of the United States. • Students will create Cornell Notes to determine what led to the rise of big business • Essential Question: Describe how the rise of big business changed the lives of Americans during the 1900’s.

15. To start today let’s review…. Let’s look at some Brain Check Moments to see what we are thinking about this concept we are studying…. Did you really stretch your thoughts?

16. What does this standard indicate that fifth graders must master to show understanding of this content? SS5E1 The student will use the basic economic concepts of trade, opportunity cost, specialization, voluntary exchange, productivity, and price incentives to illustrate historical events. c. Describe how specialization improves standards of living, (such as how specific economies in the north and south developed at the beginning of the 20th century). d. Explain how voluntary exchange helps both buyers and sellers (such as how specialization leads to the need to exchange to get wants and needs). f. Give examples of technological advancements and their impact on business productivity during the continuing development of the United States (such as the development of the personal computer and the internet).

17. Page setup Draw a horizontal line about five lines up from the bottom. Cornell Notes: page 260-261 Big Business ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Write this heading at the top of your page • Draw a vertical line down the page about one third of • distance from the left.

18. Cornell Notes Cornell Notes: page 260-261 Big Business Reminder this is where you put your bulleted paraphrased notes Reminder this is where you put your questions ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Reminder this is where you put summary paragraph

19. Utilizing the Cornell Method • Read the text page 260-261 • Think About: What changes in society happened? How did these changes affect the world Americans lived in at this time? • Task: Using your knowledge of sequence; take notes identifying key facts and vocabulary.

20. Cornell Notes Cornell Notes: page 260-261 Big Business ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

21. Let’s determine what you have learned today! BRAIN CHECK MOMENT…. Directions: Think about how big business grew during the Second Industrial Revolution. Essential Question: Describe how big business grew during the1900's. Describe how this change impacted the lives of Americans.

22. Lesson Objective and Essential Question Day 4 • Objective: Students will determine what led to the rise of Big Business in the 1900’s and how this changed the economy of the United States. • Students will create Cornell Notes to determine what led to the rise of big business • Essential Question: Describe how the rise of big business changed the lives of Americans during the 1900’s. Describe the positive and negative effects of the rise of big business.

23. Utilizing the Cornell Method • Read the text page 262-263 • Think About: What changes in society happened? How did these changes affect the world Americans lived in at this time? • Task: Using your knowledge of sequence; take notes identifying key facts and vocabulary.

24. Cornell Notes Cornell Notes: page 262-263 Labor Unions ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

25. Let’s determine what you have learned today! BRAIN CHECK MOMENT…. Directions: Think about how big business grew during the Second Industrial Revolution. Think about how labor unions developed. Essential Question: Think about how big business grew during the1900's. Describe how this impacted the lives of Americans. Be sure to discuss the negative and positive effects of the rise of big business.