WarmUp

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Warm-Up

• Question
• Do you believe it is important to have a drivers
  license? What are some of the benefits of owning
  your own car?

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Did YOU Know?????

• Before the invention of Henry Fords Model-T car
  it was difficult for an average size income
  family to afford a car.
• The development of standard parts and the use of
  the assembly line sped up automobile production
  which made the purchase of these cars affordable.

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Mass Production
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Vocabulary (Copy these down)

• Trusts
• Enterprise
• Mass Production
• Assembly line

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Vocabulary (Copy these down)

• Trusts
• Enterprise
• Mass Production
• Assembly line

A combination of firms or corporations formed by
a legal agreement, especially to reduce
competition
A business organization
The production of large quantities of goods using
machinery and often an assembly line
A production system with machines and workers
arranged so that each person performs an assigned
task again and again as the item passes before
him or her
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Your Assignment

• Each row will be an assembly line team
• You will need to come up with a company name
• Each assembly line will be producing in mass
  quantities Fords Model-T cars
• You will be competing against the other
  companies, whichever team produces the most
  cars in 10 minutes WINS!

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Instructions

• Each member of your row or assembly line will
  need an assigned task. Choose from the following
• 1 Trace car items onto paper
• 2 Cut items out
• 3 Paste antenna and windows onto car
• 4 Fasten wheels to car
• 5 Write company name on car and deliver to the
  Manager, AKA the Teacher, for inspection

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Instructions

• You now have 1 minute to decide on your company
  name and decide which group members will do what
  tasks, remember that efficiency matters in an
  assembly line!
• GO!!!!!
• 1, 2, 3.Im counting!!!

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Before you begin

• Make sure that each car is exactly the same in
  design and quality!
• Think about how much time you are taking to do
  each task.
• Are there techniques that you could use to
  produce more cars quicker?
• You may begin when I say Go!

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• CHECK THESE OUT BEFORE YOU BEGIN
• http//www.mtfca.com/links/links.htm
• http//inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfor
  d.htm
• http//www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmass.htm
• http//www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/h
  utchinson/m0006177.html

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• GO!
• YOU HAVE 10 MINTUES

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Congratulations!!!

• You have completed your assignment!

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Discussion Questions

• Who won the competition?
• Why do you think they won?
• Why didnt the individual person do as well as
  the groups?
• How can organization and planning within a
  company affect the productivity of that company?
• To the winning group What did you do to win? How
  did you organize yourselves?

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Homework Copy this down

• Brief Constructed Response (BCR)
• Describe the impact of the assembly line on mass
  production.
• How can organization and planning within a
  company affect the productivity of that company?
• Why would assembly line and mass production cause
  prices to decrease?

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REFERENCES

• ALL PICTURES AND SOUNDS WERE TAKEN FROM MICROSOFT
  CLIP ART.