The Great Exhibition

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/the-great-exhibition

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the event name?The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations
2. What is the location?Hyde Park, London, England
3. Where was the Great Exhibition held?In London, inside the Crystal Palace built in Hyde Park.
4. Why did people build the Crystal Palace?It was made of iron and glass to show how modern Britain could build big, bright spaces quickly and to hold many exhibits without walls.

Prince Albert: The Prince Consort, husband of Queen Victoria, and a driving force behind the conception and organization of the Great Exhibition.
Joseph Paxton: The architect and engineer credited with the design of the innovative Crystal Palace structure.
Industrial Revolution: A period of profound technological, socioeconomic, and cultural change, marked by the shift from agrarian and handicraft economies to industrial and machine-based manufacturing.
Prefabrication: The practice of assembling components of a structure in a factory or workshop before transporting them to the construction site.