Ninth grade modern world history students chose an industrial revolution invention to recreate for a museum exhibit. The model also included a museum label with the inventor, date and how the invention revolutionized industry. As was often the case during the industrial revolution, our models were a competition with the reward being chocolate. The projects were judged by upperclassmen who completed the project as ninth graders themselves.
Winners in each class period were Ethan Cosby who recreated George Stephenson’s Rocket, the fastest locomotive in Britain in 1829. Danish Webster also recreated the Rocket locomotive; the judges were impressed how she used common household objects to recreate the locomotive that even rolled. Christopher Prowell recreated John Kay’s flying shuttle, which sped the process of weaving thread into textiles.
The judges were very impressed by all the quality models students created and how all the students were very resourceful in the items they used to recreate the industrial revolution models.
