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Big History Project: Chapter 5: The Modern Revolution and the Future

For Students 9th - 10th
Big History Project, Chapter 5, picks up after the development of agriculture and the rise of cities and powerful civilizations and looks at industrialization, transportation and modern global interactions of today and asks, "what next?".
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Council for Economic Education: The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This source includes general information and the chronology of the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution, or the time of development of the first human communities. After learning about the revolution, read a brief short-story about a...
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Saudi Aramco World: Beginning of the End for Hunter Gatherers

For Students 9th - 10th
Article details the remarkable archaeological discoveries in a region of Turkey where excavations at a Neolithic site point to a society in transition, from nomadic to agricultural.
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Libcom: Climate, Class, and the Neolithic Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the first in a series of articles about food under global warming. This article takes a long view of the relationship between climate, agriculture, and class society.
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The Industrial Revolution: Changes in Society

For Students 9th - 10th
A guided website which covers the major aspects of the Industrial Revolution from about 1750 until 1830. Areas such as industry, agriculture are explored.
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C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Agriculture

For Teachers 6th
A learning module on agriculture that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include factors that led to the development of...
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University of Missouri

Sociology Timeline: The Agricultural Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
A sociology timeline showing the evolution of societies from hunter-gatherer societies to the information revolution.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Human Geography: Agricultural Geography

For Students 9th - 10th
AP Human Geography course unit on Agricultural Geography discusses industrial farming, global agriculture and the green revolution.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The New Deal Brings Social Reforms

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the wide-sweeping social programs Franklin Roosevelt introduced after taking office in 1933, and traces the development of the New Deal from Roosevelt's proposals to Congress, the Supreme Court's nullification of many of the...
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International World History: Agriculture and the Origins of Civilization

For Students 9th - 10th
Read here about the Neolithic Revolution and the development of early Stone Age humans into an Agrarian society. Causes of the agrarian transformation are addressed as well as the domestication of plants and animals. The spread of the...
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American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Association for Advancement of Science: The Slow Birth of Agriculture

For Students 9th - 10th
An article which describes the slow process of crop cultivation. The author argues that crop cultivation and village life may not have been connected.
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Flow of History

Flow of History: The Birth of Agriculture and Its Effects

For Students 9th - 10th
Why was the birth of agriculture such an important development in the prehistoric times? This question is answered in an easy-to-understand overview. The effects of agriculture are also mapped out on a flow chart for visual analysis.
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Open Door Team

Open Door Web Site: Jethro Tull and the Seed Drill

For Students 9th - 10th
Jethro Tull (1674-1741) invented a machine that helped to increase the harvest yield by planting seeds in straight lines, a vast improvement over sowing by hand that led to greater crop yields.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Agriculture and Human Population Growth

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Reveals how human population growth has paralleled advances in agriculture, such as the advent of agriculture, and the onset of the Green Revolution.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Revolution in Agriculture

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive look at the United States agricultural revolution in the late 1800s. Discover the impact it had on the development of the country.
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Modern World History: Pre Industrial Society

For Students 9th - 10th
In this textbook unit, students learn about what society and the standard of living were like prior to the Industrial Revolution. The average peasant grew their food and kept farm animals. Change took place much more slowly, but the rate...
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Have Fun With History

Have Fun With History: Industrial Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Multi media learning module with videos for students and teachers to learn about the Industrial Revolution and how America moved from and agricultural society to an urban machine-based production in the 19th Century.
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Clemson University: British Industrial Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Lecture notes for a class on the Industrial Revolution provide an overview of the transition of the British economy from a predominantly agricultural one to an industrial society.
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University of Chicago

University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Origins of Civilization

For Students 9th - 10th
Learing module on the origins of civilization explains the chronology and environmental context of the so-called Neolithic revolution, the period when early civilizations in the Middle East arose and began to domesticate plants and animals.
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Goteborg University: The Rise of Neolithic Agriculture [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The Rise of Neolithic Agriculture examines reasons why the Neolithic converted to an agricultural people and why agriculture, though initially increasing the welfare of people's lives, deteriorated the quality of living.
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Northwestern University

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences: Second Industrial Revolution [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A lengthy essay on the Second Industrial Revolution in Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author looks at seven major aspects of technology that were affected by the revolution and makes...
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Industrial Revolution Inventions

For Students 9th - 10th
The Industrial Revolution is a phrase that encompasses the massive changes in agriculture and manufacturing processes during the 18th and 19th centuries that transformed the United States from an agricultural to an industrial society....
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University of Groningen

American History: Essays: Anglo American Colonization in Texas: Agriculture

For Students 9th - 10th
Outlines the agricultural differences between the Upper and Lower South of Texas prior to the Civil War.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Revolution in Agriculture

For Students 9th - 10th
Article outlining the extraordinary achievements in agriculture during the 1800s.