From Workshops to Assembly Lines: teacher key
Factories, grade 3 edition, written for 3rd grade. How cloth machines and Henry Ford's line changed the way things are made.
Read the book. Print this page for the key.
Questions and answers
- How were most things made long ago?
- By robots
- By hand (answer)
- By jets
- What did new machines do to cloth making?
- Made it slower
- Stopped it
- Made it faster (answer)
- Who broke machines to protest?
- The Luddites (answer)
- Ford
- The Model T
- Why could most Americans buy a Model T?
- Cars were free
- It was tiny
- The line made it cost less (answer)
- What is a conveyor belt?
- A kind of car
- A moving belt (answer)
- A hat
Words
- factory: makes things
- Luddites: machine breakers
- conveyor: moving belt
- assembly: putting together