The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution: Great Inventors
1)
This is the website where you will read about the great inventors of the Industrial Revolution. On this page scroll down to the heading Inventors of the Industrial Revolution which is in the middle of the page and click on it. That will take you to the page to start the lesson about the inventors. Use the handout to take notes while you go through the lesson on the internet.

http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/inventor2/index.cfm

2)
At the bottom of this page is a section called Student lessons and ideas. Go to the link highlighted in blue which reads: Try This. This will take you to the Inventor's Game.

http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/inventor2/lesnideas.cfm

The Career Key

The Career Key website will allow you to find information about possible careers suited to your personality. The descriptors (realistic, artistic, social, etc) at the bottom of the page are the links for a survey of career opportunities that could interest you.

On the survey page, select three no more than four career choices and click done. You will have a summary page of jobs that could fit you. Write these down and then begin reading about the first one on the list.

http://www.careerkey.org/asp/career_options/match_personality.asp

After you have researched the jobs you selected, rank them in order of your preference, 1 being the highest. When you are finished with your career survey and research turn in your job selection and ranking to me.

Renaissance Personal Journal/Scrapbook

Below is the list of requirements for your Renaissance project as well as some websites to get you started on your research journey


Personal Journal Criteria: The journal entries will be written in first person. You will write the journal as if you were the person you chose from the Renaissance.
The Cover: Your name, Your Renaissance person’s name, Renaissance person’s birth-death dates, block, project due date. Scrapbook needs to be contained in some manner.
State your name (this means your person), create a date from the Renaissance for your journals.
Journal entries: Two entries on separate pages
Explain who you are and why you are important for your time. What makes you take
risk or try new things? What are your dreams or goals and are you able to achieve
them?
Who are your friends, family, rivals? Who has influenced you the most? Has anyone
thwarted you? What do you find challenging about living during this time?
You need a picture of you for your scrapbook. (This means your person!) Find pictures, texts of things that interest you and represents the Renaissance. (Limit textual information to short paragraphs in order to keep the page dynamic.)
Bibliographical information: Cite your sources on a separate Bibliography page. This includes every source on the Internet from which you take your information—text, pictures, clipart, backgrounds, etc.
You will present your personal journal/scrapbook as your person to the class and explain why the “scraps” you chose to include are representational of you and the Renaissance.

Renaissance Websites:
http://hms.ttsd.k12.or.us/curriculum/7/renaissance/people.html

http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/launchpad/9983/renaissance.html

http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/

http://www.42explore2.com/renaissance2.htm

http://www.midrealm.org/mkyouth/links/peopleren.htm (general information)

http://killeenroos.com/2/PEO1415A.htm (general information)

The Scienticfic Revolution

The Scientific Revolution

HYPERLINK http://school.eb.com/workspace2/display
Great Minds
Click below to open a web page with a list of great minds of the Scientific Revolution (and before). Each name in the list can be clicked on to open an encyclopedia article about that person.

The web page includes articles about every person mentioned in the scientific revolution chapter. Read any that grab your attention. However, you are specifically responsible for knowing the following six names and their contributions to the scientific revolution:

Copernicus

Kepler

Galileo

Newton

Bacon

Descartes

Current Event Peer Comment

Please pick a peer's current event posting to review, and write a thoughtful comment about the topic and/or his/her poem or compare/contrast. You can choose a classmate from either C or H block.

Global Fortune 500

Website For Fortune 500

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2007/full_list/