Manufacturing: How It’s Made

Northeast Minnesota Virtual Industry Tour Classroom Lesson Plan

Manufacturing:  How It’s Made

GRADE LEVEL: 7-12

ACADEMIC SUBJECT(S) MOST APPROPRIATE FOR ACTIVITY:  General

SOURCE ORGANIZATION:
National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity

TIME TO COMPLETE: 60 Minutes

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DESCRIPTION:

This lesson asks students to consider how products are made. Without manufacturing, our dreams for a safe, more efficient, and better world would go unrealized. Students will consider all the people and processes involved in taking a dream to a reality.

OBJECTIVES

Students will:

  • brainstorm and identify all of the steps required to transform an idea into a product.
  • Identify manufacturing jobs that appeal to the learner.

SUPPLEMENTARY VIDEO:

Provided by a joint venture between JET, True North Stars Perkins Consortium, IRRRB, and Story North Productions to be used with the Northeast Minnesota Virtual Industry Tour Project, Manufacturing Sector.

MANUFACTURING VIDEOS:  Detroit Diesel and Zakobe

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