Then and Now: How It’s Made
DIRECTIONS: Choose an item that you use regularly day to day. Do some research to find out
how that object is made now, in the 21st century. Then, find out how the same object was made
before industrialization. Create a text or visual description of each process, and also describe
differences in the resulting products. For instance, what’s different about the materials used and
how the item works or how it is used.
Select a manufactured object to research.
Find and read or watch a source that shows or describes how the object is made now.
Find and read or watch a source that shows or describes how the object was made
before the Industrial Revolution.
Choose the format you will use to share what you learned from your research.
Create a poster, multimedia presentation, or video that shows the differences between
the way the object was made in the past and the way is it made now.
Then and Now Worksheet
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