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Expansion, Trade and Industry


 
 
 
 

A. Causes of the Industrial Revolution

1. PowerPoint Introduction / Starter Quiz
This Powerpoint presentation oulines why this is such an important subject to study, and provides an overview of the main changes of the period. It also gives an overview about how the topic will be investigated, and there is a worksheet quiz to accompany the presentation.
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Venn Diagram / PowerPoint Lesson
What does it take to be a successful businessperson?
As an introduction, students consider the careers of Bill Gates, Richard Branson and James Dyson (teachers can use this powerpoint as an aid). They compare the three men using a Venn Diagram and then each student considers whether they have what it takes to succeed in business.

3. Interactive Game
Horatio Ramsbottom: Victorian Entrepreneur
Students take a series of decisions about how to run their new business. How should the workers be treated? What transport system should be used? Should they invest in the triangular trade and the Great Exhibition? Complete with a worksheet and follow-up tasks, this activity provides a thorough overview of the main factors affecting the Industrial Revolution. There is also a paper-based factual test that can be used to test how much students have learned., and a markscheme for the follow-up newspaper report task.
Industrial Revolution Simulation
4. Balloon Debate / Research Task
Who was the most important person in the Industrial Revolution?
Each student produces a single powerpoint slide (using this template) as a key figure from the industrial revolution period explaining why "they" deserve to be remembered as the most important character overall. The debate which follows is a great way of encouraging students to link and prioritise different types of achievements.
5. Linking and Prioritising Factors
What was the most important cause of the Industrial Revolution? [Part 1 | Part 2]
This lesson follows on well from the studies of individuals. Students consider the big changes - transport, agriculture, smelting and so on - and try to link them together in a meaningful way. Here are some samples produced by my own students: Olivia | Hanif | Grace
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Extension Activity
Flash Jigsaw Exercise: Causes of the Industrial Revolution (based at www.classtools.net interactive whiteboard resources)


B. Effects of the Industrial Revolution

1. Timeline Task: the Industrial Revolution
Students are presented with a detailed timeline of information about the Industrial Revolution and a series of tasks encourages them to categorise and periodise them meaningfully. A good homework / extension acivity.
2. Crime and Punishment - Decision Making Game
You be the Judge!
Pass sentence on ten criminals from the nineteenth century, then compare your decisions to those actually made at the time!
The Ottoman Empire under Suleiman the Magnificent
3. Children at Work
Careers Advice: Victorian Style!
An interactive, self-contained game designed to teach students about some of the worst jobs available to young people in Victorian Britain.
Simply answer a series of questions about your personality and preferences, and get a full description of your perfect working-class job. A workheet is provided - a great way of spicing up a unit on the Industrial Revolution!
4. Social Conditions - Interactive Database
The Coalbrookdale Census of 1851
An innovative activity which develops skills of data handling with a simple but powerful interface. Complete with a comprehensive project pack that will keep students engaged for several hours' worth of lessons.
Coalbrookdale Interactive Census: Expansion, Trade and Industry Game

Interactive quizzes

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History in the News for Expansion, Trade and Industry

1. Paxman attacks the 'dreary educational establishment' that is erasing Empire from history #historyteacher  
2. The REAL pirates of the Caribbean: Cannons belonging to bloodthirsty buccaneer Henry Morgan recovered in Panama Archaeologists have revealed that six cannons that belonged to the bloodthirsty British pirate Henry Morgan have been recovered from a river in Panama.Swashbuckling adventurer Morgan sent three ships and a crew of 470 men to capture the Castillo de San Lorenzo el Real de Chagres, a fort that guarded the approach to Panama City, the capital, in 1671.
3. Edison's Predictions for the Year 2011 (1911)  
4. 'I wrote 2U B4'! British Library shows up textspeak as soooo 19th century  
5. Branson unveils 'first commercial spacecraft'  
6. Police using 300 year-old law to target gang violence  
7. Victoria's secret: how dancing queen kept amused with self-portrait  
8. New Jack the Ripper suspect unveiled  
9. Queen Victoria's Crotchless Underwear Deemed National Treasure  
10. Jack the Ripper 'was several different killers'  
11. The Charge of Light Brigade boy who rode into the jaws of death and lived to tell the tale  
12. Lord Nelson bust unveiled on 250th anniversary of Trafalgar hero's birth  
13. Was Crippen Guilty?  
14. Captain Cook's boomerang to make a handsome return  
15. Stereoviews from the National Brunel Archive  
16. £12,000 for news snap of Queen Victoria: 1855 image captures monarch with Napoleon III | Mail Online  
17. Police mugshots of 19th century women criminals revealed  
18. James Watt: Scientists create sculpture of Industrial Revolution engineer using 3D technology  
19. New Titanic artefacts on display More than 300 artefacts rescued from the Titanic, including some that have never been seen before, are going on display in London.
20. Revealed: Industrial Revolution was powered by child slaves  
21. Last Union Jack flown at Trafalgar 'must remain in Britain'  
22. Last surviving Trafalgar flag expected to fetch £15,000 at auction  
23. Michael Palin: British Empire was not 'wicked'  
24. Portuguese archeologists unearth General Wellington's command post  
25. The long-term consequences of the British Empire  
26. Lord Nelson's letter detailing naval strategy against French to be sold  
27. Titanic survivor auctions relics  
28. Lord Nelson's flagship HMS Victory could be put in hands of private company  
29. Northern Ireland | Ireland to mark famine disaster  

 

 

 
 
 
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