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Industrialization

The Assembly Line

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Brain Starter

How do car factories make cars?

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How are your shoes made?

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Agenda

  • Brain Starter
  • Announcements
    • Ellis Island $$/Permission Slip
  • Goal
  • Essential Question
  • Cornell Notes
  • Assembly Line Activity
  • Wrap-Up

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Goal

  • Students will be able to write a paragraph explanation explaining how the assembly line affected American history.

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Essential Question

How did the development of the assembly line affect American Society?

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mass production- producing large amounts of goods at low costs per good

  • Brings down the price.
  • More people can buy it.

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Interchangeable Parts

  • When specific parts of a product are mass produced and can be replace broken parts.

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Assembly Line

  • Line of �workers and �equipment that put �a product together �piece by piece

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Assembly Line vs. Skilled Craftsmen

Assembly Line

Skilled Craftsmen

  • Cheaper items
  • More items produced
  • Interchangeable parts

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  • Allowed more people to have more stuff

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  • Higher quality
  • Fewer items produced

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Assembly Line Simulation

Skilled Craftsman

You have three minutes to draw the ideal car on a single sheet of paper. Add as much detail as you’d like.

  • You must include:
    • Tires
    • Body
    • Windows
    • More specific details (detail your car)

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Skilled Craftsmen

  • Draw as many of the car you just designed as you can in two minutes.

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Assembly Line

  • Now, everyone in your row will be responsible for putting ONE part on each car.
  • Your goal is to produce as many cars as possible
  • Start with one person, who will draw one part of the car; then pass it to the next person who will draw the second part of the car and so on

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Assembly Line

Jobs

  • Body
  • Tires
  • Windows
  • Detailer

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Paragraph

  • Using your notes and the knowledge you gained from the simulation:
    • Explain how the assembly line and interchangeable parts changed American society

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Cornell Notes

Fold over to red line

Period ____

Date ____

Essential Question

Cue Questions

  • Class Notes

Summary: What was the main idea of the notes that were take in class?

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Homework/Wrap-Up

  • Watch the “Assembly Line” Brain POP and email the results to Mr. Lawrence

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    • Be Prepared.
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    • Do Your Job.
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    • No Excuses.