Industrial Revolution Inventors and Effects

Pair the Renaissance and Enlightenment sheets with a lesson on each, and use the print sheet to link both to the Reformation. The profile cards give students the information they need.

Match Industrial Revolution inventions and inventors to clues, then chart their effects. The directions on the page read: Read the table and the passage. You will use them to complete page 2. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 7th grade Medieval and Early Modern World, and it works the same at home or at school. At home, a student can work through it alone and then go over it with you, which shows quickly what is solid and what needs another look. In class it works as independent practice, homework or a warm-up, and you can print one copy or a full set.

They were a powerful banking family, and some artists on the cards had a connection to them. Italian Renaissance Artists and Patrons asks which three artists did.

Print shops spread across Europe after Gutenberg's press, so ideas traveled fast. Luther's Theses and the Printing Press compares how books were copied before and after printing.

Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau and Wollstonecraft all appear on Enlightenment Thinkers and Their Ideas.