Industrial Revolution Newspaper Project
Industrial Revolution newspaper project for partner groups: an editor and a reporter write four articles, including an editorial, from the viewpoint of someone living at the time, then present the paper to the class.
- Grades
- Grades 7–12, Middle School, High School
- File type
- Microsoft Word
- Subject
- Social Studies, History, History: USA
- Topic
- Industrial Revolution, U.S. history
- Resource types
- Activities, Projects
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This resource is a history project for the Industrial Revolution. You will get instruction for how your students should complete this newspaper project. There will be a rubric for student work. The document is editable, so you can make adjustments as needed.
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Learning objectives
- Write news articles and an editorial from a historical perspective
- Explain the importance of an assigned invention
- Present a finished newspaper to the class
Teaching tips
- Groups need pictures of their inventions, either hand-drawn or printed, for the newspaper.
Skills covered
- Perspective writing — reporting on an invention as someone living through the Industrial Revolution
- Editorial writing — arguing a viewpoint in the paper's opinion piece
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Core concepts
- Industrial Revolution
- Inventions
- Editorial
- News article
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