Overview:
As we grow older, we learn how to do tasks in faster ways that are more efficient. For example, when you were young, going from one place to another, you first crawled and then walked then you learned how to ride your bike. This meant you learned how to travel farther and faster using technology.

During America's industrial era, the country learned how to produce goods and services faster and more efficiently. The use of new technologies, an increased labor force, and new businesses practices made for dynamic era that had a lasting impact on the nation's society and economy.

With the changes in society brought about during the Industrial Era, American's began to look inwards to attempt to solve some of the social and economic problems caused by industry. A feeling of reform swept the nation and the reforms that began in the Progressive Era remain with us today.

Essential Questions:

1. What are the qualities of people who led the progressive movement?
2. How is progress achieved?
3. Lasting effects of progressive movements?

• Introduce Unit III- Progressive Era
• Activity I- Jigsaw to identify the important terms
• Labor/job types, Industrialization, Economics, Society, Important inventions
• Activity III- Graphing America's Rising Industrialism- "Bend the line"
• Activity IV- Assembly line
• Students placed into documentary production teams
• Activity I- Lecture/Discussion and Slide Presentation- The Progressive Response
• Story Telling/ Fact vs. Story
• Teachers' Booths of Progressive Era Topics
• Browsing
• Select progressive leaders for imovie approval
• Select Progressive Programs for approval
• Research Topic
• Develop script for imovie
• Approval of script
• Photograph anal;ysis/bibliographical worksheet
• Search for appropriate images and audio files
• Select images to use in movie
• Search and select movies for documentary
• Learn imovie software
• Create imovie

• Lincoln Steffens- Writer
• Ida B. Tarbell- reporter
• Robert La Follette- congressman
• Theodore Roosevelt- Governor/President
• Upton Sinclair- Writer
• Woodrow Wilson- President
• Carrie Chapman cart-Suffragette
• Alice Paul- Suffragette
• W.E.B. DuBoise
• Booker T. Washington
• George Washington Carver- Scientist
• J.P. Morgan- Banker
• John D. Rockfeller- Industrialist
• Cornelius Vanderbilt-Industrialist
• John Muir- Conservation
• Lewis W. Hine- Photographer
• Carl Fisher- Entrepreneur

Programs

• Civil Service Commission
• Interstate Commerce Act
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• 16th Amendment- Income Tax
• 17th Amendment-Senate Elections
• Pure food and Drug Act
• Trust Busting
• Suffragettes and the 19th Amendment
• NAACP and Anti-Lynching
• Inequalities in Education
• Child Labor
• Lincoln Highways
• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

Team Roles:

• Researchers:
  • All students are researchers and help to write various parts of the script.
• Documentary - iMovie Creation
  • All students will help to create the iMovie
• Director: (1 student)
  • Ensures that team complete checklist to complete project
  • Ensures that script is edited and follows rubric for evaluation
  • Ensures that their team includes a complete bibliography in their project.
• Archivers (1-2 students)
  • Searches for photographs that are appropriate for the topic using the resources on the Patriot website (see above link).
  • Puts the photographs in specific order that follows their script.
• Editor: (1 student)
  • Responsible for ensuring the script is well edited before submitting to your teacher.
  • Responsible for editing the iMovie, (narration/audio and photographs) to ensure it follows the script, and all media used is appropropriate to the topic, interesting and engaging to watch.
    

Worksheets in pdf form

• Resource Worksheet
• Student Checklist