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Challenge your students to look at the 16th - 18th centuries through 16th- 18th century eyes

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SS 9 Industrial Revolution:  Poster Assignment

The goal: to illustrate the effects of the Industrial Revolutions on society and the changing nature of work.

1.    Choose a communications technology or invention:  manufactured between 1780-1850 and 1850-1900. 

2.    Create a poster:  illustrating how it evolved throughout time, including before, during and after its invention.

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