The Industrial Revolution The aim of this aim is to assess why coal became known as ‘black gold’. Students learn how important coal was to the Industrial Revolution and how it was used in a number of areas. However the interesting facts focus on its extraction and yet again the dangers involved for all concerned, especially children. Students have to rate how effective the various measures put in place were to overcome some of the problems They also have to tackle some historical hexagonals to get them thinking and linking all the information together. A find and fix plenary should test their recall and knowledge from the lesson. The lesson is enquiry based with a key question using a lightbulb posed at the start of the lesson and revisited at the end to show the progress of learning. The resource comes in PowerPoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change. I have also included suggested teaching strategies to deliver the lesson and there are differentiated materials included.

Coal, Iron & Steel

Victorians - Industrial Revolution (KS2) This lesson discusses the events before, during and after the Industrial Revolution. It also analyses the impact the Industrial Revolution had on Victorian society. In addition, the working and living conditions of the Victorian workers is discussed. This lesson is in PowerPoint format and can be taught as it is or changed to suit individual classes. Detailed PowerPoint Lesson with 18 slides. This lesson comes with a suggested activity or task that is also attached. The task for this lesson is a sorting activity and has a challenge card. Learning objectives • To learn about the Industrial Revolution

This lesson investigates the inventors, new technology and inventions that came around during the Industrial Revolution in Britain, for example the telephone, railways, safety lamp and electricity. Students look at inventions and inventors in three categories: communication, industry and transport. This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, information sheet with table to complete, presenting task, mini plenaries, a consolidation explanation question and a plenary. Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion. We have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies and interesting facts! If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you. Got a lesson suggestion? Or looking for something in particular? Email us!

This lesson has been created for KS3 students and covers life in inventions of new technology for the textiles industry in the Industrial Revolution. The purpose of the lesson is to get students to investigate new technologies invented to develop the textile industry from the domestic industry through to the factory industry in the 18th Century. Student are then to consider the significance of each invention and in what way they sped up the Industrial Revolution. The lesson offers an opportunity for group work when exploring the different inventions and the inventors developed during the 18th Century. Youtube video links have been offered under each handout slide if you choose to create QR codes linked to the URLs so that students can view each invention working. Exam technique is also practiced in this lesson in the format of a 4 mark question. All accompanying resources are included in Microsoft Powerpoint format and suggested learning outcomes provided with space for you to add your own accompanying grades. I have taught this lesson to all Y7, Y8 and Y9 depending on where Industrial Revolution falls in the schemes of work. I really hope you enjoy teaching this lesson as much as I do!

This PowerPoint and lesson is designed to contextualise the Industrial Revolution, and set the scene for the changes it brought about. It outlines what life was like in England in the early 1700’s before the Industrial Revolution. It spends some time examining how the lower classes lived and worked at this time. We look at how some new inventions started to change life for these people, and how towns and cities rapidly grew alongside canals and railways. Children are shown how these changes had both positive and negative impacts and brought about vast contrasts for people living in the countryside and those in the cities. Challenge the children to predict the impact of the changes through a series of carefully structured prompts. Finally we look at the impact on social class the Industrial Revolution had, and how a new class – the middle class – sprang up as a result. A great lesson to set the scene before tackling the Industrial Revolution in more detail.

A lesson looking at the different social-economic classes during the Victorian era and the social pyramid and including the social reformer Seebohm Rowntree. Inlcudes a recap starter and teacher exposition and questions.

Introduction to the industrial revolution with written activities and a drama task. Thoroughly enjoyed by my year 7 students but perfect for all of KS3.

KS3 History resources: 50 mins-1 hour PP, worksheets, well differentiated. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) and are designed to last between fifty minutes and one hour each. ***SALE*** - this resource is on sale at a reduced price. A lesson that forms part of a scheme of work on the Industrial Revolution. Contains: presentation with starter activity and plenary discussion high quality images and resources, ready to print from Microsoft PowerPoint Learning Objectives: describe the factors that led to the Industrial Revolution explain how they led to the Industrial Revolution analyse and prioritise these factors, making links between them **Leave me a review and choose any other resource for free - just contact me via the Conversations tab. **

Objective: To explore and analyze primary sources to understand the harsh realities of factory conditions during the Industrial Revolution. Starter: Discussion on Sources Introduction to the Industrial Revolution and its impact on society. Brief overview of primary and secondary sources. Engage students in a discussion about the importance of historical sources in understanding the past. Teacher Instruction on Analyzing Primary Sources Explanation of primary sources related to factory conditions (photographs, letters, diaries, reports). Guidance on how to critically analyze primary sources, considering context, authorship, and bias. Demonstration of analyzing a sample primary source together as a class. **Main Activity: ** Primary Source Analysis Distribute various primary sources depicting factory conditions to small groups of students. Students analyze the assigned sources, considering the experiences of workers, living conditions, and societal attitudes of the time. Encourage students to discuss and debate their interpretations within their groups. Groups present their findings, highlighting key aspects of the sources and discussing their implications. **Plenary: ** Discussion on Horrific Factory Conditions Recap of key findings from the primary sources analyzed by each group. Facilitate a whole-class discussion on the horrific conditions faced by factory workers. Explore the emotional and social impact of these conditions on individuals and communities. Discuss the role of these conditions in shaping labor movements and social reforms during the Industrial Revolution.

A set of 6 lessons on the Industrial Revolution. Designed for Year 8/9 students. Lessons include: Inventions, the changes that took place, living and working conditions and cholera. Please see my page for my other KS3 and KS4 resources.

Key Stage 3 Industrial Revolution Context for Year 9 English literature study of six Romantic Poets. Designed as part of a workbook for Year 9 students, that in addition features six poems, one each from Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, short biographies of each poet, and context pieces on Romanticism and the French Revolution. This text includes a Glossary of words that may cause problems for students understanding the full text. All context pieces are original texts, as are the poet biographies. From these pieces, class presentations are created, focusing on key elements of Romantic Poetry and the Romantic Movement. Together, they contribute to a seven-week SOW aimed to: Introduce students to the concepts and ideas of the Romantic Movement, demonstrate how historical events influenced this creative expression, and explore how this is shown in English literature through the work of six key Romantic poets.

In this lesson, students will discover what living conditions were like in Britain’s new industrial towns and specifically examine the increase in illness and disease. Particular attention is paid to the creation of terraced housing, the growth of slum areas, back-to-back housing and the pollution and waste created by such extreme overcrowding in the working class parts of towns. The lesson includes the following: Slide 1: Title slide Slide 2: Lesson learning aims and progress Slide 3: Lesson Warm Up – Class discussion about how students would describe ‘typical’ housing and accommodation today. Slide 4: Lesson Warm Up II – Fill in the missing facts about the growth of towns in the Industrial Revolution Slide 5: Missing terms from the warm-up revealed. Slide 6: Starter Task: Students view a diagram of typical terraced and back-to-back housing and use this to discuss what housing conditions were like and how this led to ill-health and disease. Slide 7: Source Analysis – An illustration of slum housing with prompt questions Slide 8: Source Analysis – Printable GCSE style question sheet Slide 9: Background Information – The growth of industrial towns Slide 10: Background Information – Overcrowded terraced housing Slide 11: Printable fact sheet Slide 12: Activity 1 – Printable worksheet Slide 13: Activity 2 – Creative historical writing task with full instructions Slide 14: Activity 3 – Extended historical writing task with structure ideas Slide 15: Follow Up Challenge Questions Slide 16: Learning Review Crossword with answers revealed Slide 17: Printable version of the learning review crossword I would be grateful if you could leave a review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as feedback is highly valued. All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. Thank you.

In this lesson, students will have an opportunity to study several written and visual sources about children’s working conditions during Britain’s Industrial Revolution. They will use these sources to form their own opinion about the conditions and challenges that children faced in a variety of jobs such as in the factories, textile mills and mines. Students will then be guided to think about the usefulness and reliability of the sources they have studied. The lesson includes the following: Slide 1: Title slide Slide 2: Lesson learning aims Slide 3: Lesson Warm Up – A quick quiz and discussion about the rules which impact young people working today Slide 4: Background information and discussion – What jobs did children do during the Industrial Revolution? Slide 5: Background information and discussion – Why did so many children work during the Industrial Revolution? Slide 6: Starter Activity: Source Inference – a visual source about the conditions in mines Slide 7: Background information – An overview of working conditions and the role of ‘pauper apprentices’. Slide 8: Background information – An overview of working conditions Slide 9: 9 sources covering the topic of children’s working conditions Slide 10: Single source analysis activity and instructions Slide 11: Printable table for students to complete their analysis Slide 12: Source Analysis Task 2 Instructions and model examples Slide 13: Usefulness and reliability help sheet Slide 14: Follow Up Challenge Questions Slide 15: Learning Review Please be kind enough to leave a review of this lesson if you have found it effective. Thank you. All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. Thank you.

In this lesson, will learn about the harsh working conditions of the children who worked in the textile mills and factories of Industrial Britain. They will be able to describe a typical working day for the children and make comparisons with their own typical school day. The lesson includes the following: Slide 1: Title slide Slide 2: Lesson learning aims and progress Slide 3: Lesson Warm Up – Students will use the images to help them identify the various jobs that children did during the Industrial Revolution. Slide 4: Lesson Warm Up - Answers Slide 5: Starter Activity: Students will look at a map showing the location of various industries and features of the Industrial Revolution – prompt questions provided. Slide 6: Starter Activity 2: Source analysis of a child worker in a textile factory – with prompt questions Slide 7: Photograph of children working in a textile mill and prompt questions Slide 8: Photograph of children working in a textile mill and prompt questions Slide 9: Printable lesson fact sheet in the style of an illustrated storyboard. Slide 10: Task 1: Instructions of how to complete a mind map Slide 11: Printable mind map for students to write on Slide 12: Activity 2 – Students to write their own interview with a child in a textile mill Slide 13: Activity 3 – A 60 minute documentary with task – links to the documentary are hyperlinked and in the notes section Slide 14: Activity 4 – Students create their own 24-hour timeline of their own typical day and compare this with a 24-hour timeline of a child in the textile mills. Slide 15: Learning Review Quiz – Filling in the missing terms Slide 16: Learning Review Quiz answers I would be really grateful if you could leave a positive review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you. All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. Thank you.

Second lesson in a scheme of work. This has been planned for lower ability year 7 students.

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COMMENT ON THIS RESOURCE - ESPECIALLY IF YOU DOWNLOAD IT. This is a lesson that I used to introduce the Industrial Revolution. It is a very general lesson to get the students used to the idea that 1750 and 1900 looked and felt very different, hence the diary entry activity. This P/Point has borrowed from another that I downloaded from these very pages, although I have added features.

A knowledge organiser for the industrial revolution that can be used for History or English