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CONTENT STANDARD 2.0 ECONOMICS
Social Studies Indicators
• 2.2.B.(WH) analyze how various technological developments impact
economic systems.
• 2.3.B (WH) analyze the change from individual production to mass
production and examine factors that led to the spread of industrialization
throughout the world’s economies.
• 2.5.A(WH) identify several systems of labor and production such as
slavery, indentured servants, pre-industrial crafts, and mass production.
Language Arts Indicators
• 2.2.A (GW) draw inferences from a selected passage
Materials needed:
Colored paper (6 colors) Bloom handout
Template for bloom ball Markers
Assessment activity: Industrial Revolution – Bloom Ball
1. Assign students to read about several technological developments or
about individuals who have made a significant technological
contributed.
2. Each student will write 2 questions on each level of Bloom’s
Taxonomy about his or her topic.
3. Each question level will be written on a selected color and each
question will be written on one piece of the Bloom ball.
4. Once the ball is assembled, students will present the findings for their
topic and will quiz their classmates using the ball.
Assessment tool: Rubric follows for assessing the questions, the Bloom
ball, and the presentation.
EXTENSIONS: For the presentation, students may share their reports orally in
small groups or to the whole class.
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