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Expansion, Trade and Industry

A. Causes of the Industrial Revolution

1.	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.
2.	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.
3.	Balloon Debate / Research Task Who was the most important person in the Industrial Revolution? Each student produces a single powerpoint slide 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.
4.	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.
5.	Extension Activity Flash Jigsaw Exercise: Causes of the Industrial Revolution (based at www.classtools.net interactive whiteboard resources)
6.	Play Your Dates Right Quizzes The First Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850
7.	SPLAT! Quiz Expansion, Trade and Industry

B. Effects of the Industrial Revolution

1.	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!
2.	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!
3.	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.

Interactive quizzes

1.	Manic Miner Games Crime and Punishment
2.	CannonBall Fun Quizzes Crime and Punishment
3.	Wordshoot Quizzes Crime and Punishment
4.	Fling the Teacher Quizzes The 19th Century Napoleon
5.	Play Your Dates Right Quizzes The Second Industrial Revolution, 1850-1969

History in the News for Expansion, Trade and Industry

1. Branson unveils 'first commercial spacecraft'
2. Police using 300 year-old law to target gang violence
3. Last Union Jack flown at Trafalgar 'must remain in Britain'
4. Victoria's secret: how dancing queen kept amused with self-portrait
5. Last surviving Trafalgar flag expected to fetch £15,000 at auction
6. New Jack the Ripper suspect unveiled
7. Michael Palin: British Empire was not 'wicked'
8. Queen Victoria's Crotchless Underwear Deemed National Treasure
9. Portuguese archeologists unearth General Wellington's command post
10. The long-term consequences of the British Empire
11. Jack the Ripper 'was several different killers'
12. Lord Nelson's letter detailing naval strategy against French to be sold
13. The Charge of Light Brigade boy who rode into the jaws of death and lived to tell the tale
14. Titanic survivor auctions relics
15. Lord Nelson bust unveiled on 250th anniversary of Trafalgar hero's birth

History weblinks for Expansion, Trade and Industry

1. Unlocking the Archives: Images of Empire
2. Full List - The 50 Best Inventions of 2009 - TIME
3. A people's history of the internet: from Arpanet in 1969 to today
4. BBC News | In pictures | Brunel exhibition
5. What is Stereo photography? - with Victorian Examples
6. History of the Great Eastern, with stereoscopic photographs
7. Women in the Industrial Revolution
8. Children in the Victorian Age
9. Spartacus - Industrial Revolution Era
10. BBC - Dragons' Den - Homepage
11. Colonisation and political change, 1750-1900
12. Paleo-Future: Postcards Show the Year 2000 (circa 1900) Great for a Year 9 Lesson
13. Making the Modern World - Exhibit
14. ETI in France Work into the Year 9 unit.
15. Worksheets and Resources


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