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Task 1. Industrial revolution innovations exhibit

Industrial revolution innovations exhibit

During the Industrial Revolution, new inventions rapidly transformed work, communication, energy, travel and daily life.

In this task, you will become a museum exhibit designer, creating an engaging folio that explains your innovation, shows its historical impact, and explores how it has evolved in the modern world.

Your folio must include the following components:

1. Introducing the innovation

  • Who invented it?

  • What was the invention?

  • Brief description + examples of early models.

2. What problem did it solve?

Describe the original problem using examples (e.g., slow communication, unsafe weaving, inefficient mining).

3. How did It change people’s lives?

Use specific Industrial Revolution examples to explain how the innovation changed:

  • work

  • home life

  • transport

  • communication

  • production

4. Raw materials and production

List the materials needed AND explain why they mattered (cost, availability, geography).

5. Fun facts & quotes about your innovation

6. Modern evolution

How has the innovation evolved to be used today.

E.G. Telegraph to smartphone.

7. The future of the innovation? (AI allowed here)

Use an AI tool to brainstorm or sketch a speculative future version of your innovation.

Your future version must include:

  • what it looks like

  • how it works

  • what problem it solves in the future

  • how it builds on the original invention

A short paragraph summarising your future design

8. AI reflection.

A 3 to 4 sentence AI use reflection explaining which tool you used and what you asked it.

AI use guidelines.

You may use AI to:

  • organise your folio layout

  • plan the structure of each section

  • summarise your own notes into a dot point plan

You must not use AI to:

  • research historical information

  • write any of the text in your folio

  • describe the original invention

  • generate “fun facts”

  • explain causes/effects

  • produce your modern evolution section

How to do the industrial innovations project.

  1. Who was the inventor and what was the invention? Include examples.

  2. What was the problem solved?

    Describe the original problem that the invention solved using examples

  3. How did the innovation change the way people worked and or lived?

    IE The light bulb allowed factories to operate 24hrs a day

  4. Which raw materials were required for production?

  5. What sort of infrastructure was required for the mass deployment of your innovation?

    IE The steam engine needed coal, and coal had to be mined and transported

    IE The factory system required electricity, workers and transport

  6. Make it interesting using fun facts and quote(s) from the sources

  7. Explain how your innovation has evolved to be used in the modern world.

IE The Morse telegraph (Long distance communication) evolved in to the mobile phone (Mass communication)