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Chapter 13. The Age of Innovation and industry. Bell Work: Tuesday October 1, 2013. Chapter 13 is entitled “The Age of Innovation and Industry.” What does the word “innovation” mean? What do you think this chapter is going to be about?. Chapter Objectives:.
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Chapter 13 The Age of Innovation and industry
Bell Work:Tuesday October 1, 2013 • Chapter 13 is entitled “The Age of Innovation and Industry.” • What does the word “innovation” mean? • What do you think this chapter is going to be about?
Chapter Objectives: • I will write and draw the definition of six vocab words. • I will analyze the growth of innovation and industry in the US by graphing statistics. • I will compose an interview between a reporter and a US industrialist.
Preview Assignment • What are the three most important innovations, or inventions, of your lifetime? • Write • Draw a picture
Assignments: • Read the introduction of the chapter • Complete the vocabulary listed on page 2
Bell Work: Wednesday October 2, 2013 • Read the quote: The conditions of human life have not only been changed, but revolutionized…The “good old times” were not good old times. • What is the main idea of this quote? • What kind of person do you think would say this?
Housekeeping: • Input Attendance! • Collect Essays • Vocab Quiz Friday • Schedule: • Reading • Video • Graphing!! • Questions!
Read Introduction: pg. 163 Brainstorming: How has the invention of the light-bulb changed the way the world works?
Watch video! • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbAOseDs3KY • Complete Your Video Notes for this video!
Bell Work:Thursday October 3, 2013 • Read the quote: I believe the power to make money is a gift from God… to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of man-kind. • What is the main idea of this quote? • What kind of person do you think would say this?
Investors= Shark tank! • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEj-YDzJXgI
Questions: page 3 in your notes • How did the capitalists (investors) in the late 1800s help fuel the development of new technologies?
Questions: page 3 in your notes 2. How did the invention of the telegraph and telephone revolutionize communications?
Questions: page 3 in your notes 3. Which invention do you think had the greatest impact on America in the 1800s: oil drilling, the Bessemer process, or electricity?
Bell Work:Friday October 4, 2013 • Read the quote: Whenever it is necessary I can buy a sufficient number of Senators and Congressmen or State Legislators to protect my interests, and when it is necessary I can buy the Judiciary. • What is the main idea of this quote? • What kind of person do you think would say this?
Industrial Growth Video: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEjAxQc07I4 • Complete the corresponding questions in your video notes.
Question 1 on page 4 in your notes: 1. How did Frederick V. Taylor’s studies impact industry in the early 1900s?
Assembly line simulation! • Groups of 4! • Imagine you are working in a car factory. • Your Goal: You have 5 minutes, within your group to produce (draw) 4 cars as similar to the final example provided as possible. • Draw your cars on the half sheets of paper provided. • After 5 minutes, give your cars to Mr. Looman.
Assess the cars! • Are these cars of good quality? • How similar are they to the original? • Why are some better then others?
Part 2 • Stay within your group of 4 • Your Goal: You have 5 minutes, within your group to produce (draw) 4 cars as similar to the final example provided as possible. • Pass out the four steps to draw the car so that everybody has a step. • Give all four blank papers to the group member who has step 1
Part 2 (continued) • At the beginning of the of the 5 minutes, person 1 may draw the first part of the car on the first page. • When he/she is done, give that paper to the person who has step 2, and that person will add step 2 to the car. • Pass the papers to 3 and four until the car is completed. • Finish all four cars.
After activity questions: • Once your group got organized in part 2, was it easier or harder to draw the four cars accurately? Why? • Did you really have to be good a drawing cars to complete your small part of the car?
Judging from what you know about the activity, what were some advantages to producing products using an assembly line? • What were some negative impacts of using an assembly line?
Finish Assembly Line Scenario! • Take a look at the first round of cars produced: • Were they of high quality? • Are they similar to the original? • Take a look at the assembly line cars: • Were they of high quality? • Are they similar to the original?
Bell WorkMonday October 7, 2013 Use pages 168-169 to answer the following questions: • What is an assembly line? • What scientist began studying how to increase production within factories during the Industrial Revolution? • What is capital?
Housekeeping: • Grade reports- pass back work • Essays will be back on Wednesday (20% off this week) • Schedule: • Industrialization notes! • Review Vocab Game • Big Business Video • Graphing Big Businesses and Government • Reading section 13.4 (small groups)
Open to Page 4 In your notes!Ready page 169-170 in textbook (New Ways to Finance and Organize Businesses) 2. Why were corporations formed, and how were the run? • Corporations were formed when companies sold their ownership as stock to raise capital. • They were run by managers hired by the stock holders.
Page 4 in your notesPg. 170 in the textbook: 3. How do monopolies and trusts differ? Monopolies are businesses that dominate a particular industry. Trusts are smaller companies that work together to dominate an industry.
Vocabulary • Use page 2 of your notes to guess which vocabulary word is represented by the picture being displayed. • When you answer, be sure to have a reason to back up your guess.
Bell Work Wednesday October 9, 2013 Who do you think are the two people in this cartoon? What is the message this cartoon is trying to send?
Housekeeping: • Pass back essays- MISSING ESSAYS • Primary Source Analysis- DUE TODAY • Technology and Change- DUE TOMORROW • Today’s schedule: • Graphing Big business • Big business reading and questions • Gilded Age Rap & Quiz
Page 7- Video Notes! • Big Business and the Government Video: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MaJeW4XBxU • Complete the notes for this video:
Question 1 on page 5 in your notes:Read pg. 171 to 172 in the textbook • How were the new big businesses of this time different from traditional companies? • Big businesses were bigger and more profitable. • Big businesses were impersonal and profit-driven. • Those who ran them did not know the workers. • Controlled by their investors.
Page 5 of your notes 2. How did horizontal and vertical integration lead to larger companies? • Horizontal integration joined together businesses in the same industry. • Vertical integration involved acquiring other business that helped make the product.
Question 3 on page 5 in your notes: 3. Why did the government adopt a laissez-faire policy toward business during this time? • They believed the market of supply and demand would regulate itself if the government did not interfere. • People believed in survival of the fittest.
Bell Work: Thursday October 10, 2013 • Do you think that monopolies should be illegal? Why or why not?