Industrial Age Inventors and Inventions Gallery Walk - plus free bonus!

This resource features 17 inventors of the Industrial Age. Each document includes a photograph of the inventor, a short biography that describes the impact of their inventions, and then pictures of the inventions themselves.

The inventors included in this gallery walk are:

• Thomas Edison
• Samuel Morse
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Lewis Howard Latimer
• Granville T. Woods
• George Westinghouse
• Nikola Tesla
• Elisha Otis
• Sarah Goode
• Jan Matzeliger
• Madame C.J. Walker
• Charles Goodyear
• Henry Ford assembly line
• Wright brothers
• George Pullman
• Elijah McCoy
• Garrett Morgan

Addition document features the War of Currents!

Four pages of worksheets are included for differentiation. Two pages are a graphic organizer where students can record key information on each inventor. One page is a set of higher-order thinking questions that can be completed regardless of which/how many inventors the students were able to read about. The final page is a venn diagram where students can compare and contrast two inventors or inventions

FREE BONUS: 25-page PDF of full-size patents featuring inventions by inventors in this lesson! Engage your students with primary source analysis

This resource includes both print and digital versions and is compatible with Google Classroom. It can be used as a whole class activity, partner/group work, think-pair-share, gallery walk, stations, or any other way you can think to use it!

This resource also aligns with the following standards

Florida State Standards for High School U.S. History:

SS.912.A.3.5 - Identify significant inventors of the Industrial Revolution including African Americans and women

Cambridge AICE US History

Key Question 3.1 - Why was the late nineteenth century an age of rapid

industrialisation?

Content theme: Technological innovations, e.g. electrical power and the telephone