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Step by Step: teacher key

Factories, grade 2 edition, written for 2nd grade. How a factory turns many small steps into one finished thing.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

  1. What is made over and over in a factory?
    • A new thing each time
    • The same thing (answer)
    • Nothing
  2. What can carry a product along a line?
    • A moving belt (answer)
    • A kind of hat
    • A wheel of cheese
  3. What did Henry Ford's company build?
    • The Titanic
    • The jenny
    • The Model T (answer)
  4. Why did early factories sit by rivers?
    • A river turned a water wheel that ran the machines (answer)
    • Fish worked there
    • Rivers are pretty
  5. Where did people go to work in the new factories?
    • To cities (answer)
    • To the moon
    • To the sea

Words

  • factory: makes things
  • assembly: putting together
  • belt: moving strap
  • machines: tools that work