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5.04- Phones, and Power, and Planes, Oh My! Activity: Create Picture/ Create Diary

This lesson will cover the technological advances in North Carolina between 1870-1930 and how they affected daily life. I would like students to learn about the inventors of the time as well as the inventions and how those inventions affected daily life for those living in North Carolina. The activity I will have for students is to create a diary entry of someone living at the time and picking one invention that they were most interested in and writing an entry from that person's first encounter with the invention, including how it's changed their life and how it could lead to other inventions. They will then write about how they might change that invention today and draw a picture of what they've written about in their entry. For assessment, I will read through and grade their diary entries to see if they really thought about the impact and understood how small changes can change society greatly as a whole.