KS3 History: Industrial Revolution - Working Condition Reforms Women & Children

In this lesson, students will be able to learn about the arguments which were used during the 1800s to support and argue against reforms to improve working conditions in the mines, mills and factories of the Industrial Revolution. In addition, students will then learn how some of the reforms set out to help workers.

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 laws today make sure people are safe and looked after in their workplace.
Slide 4: Source Inference Task
Slide 5: Source Inference Task 2
Slide 6: Think & Discuss – What are ‘Reforms’? How does Parliament create new laws?
Slide 7: Think & Discuss – Arguments for and Against the reform of working conditions during the Industrial Revolution
Slide 8: Background information – The public reaction and outrage at finding out about working conditions
Slide 9: Background Information – Who were the ‘Reformers’ and what did they call for?
Slide 10: Activity 1 – What would the Reformers want to do to help improve working conditions?
Slide 11: Activity 1 – An alternative way to think about what the reformers would want to do to help improve working conditions
Slide 12: Activity 2 – Students given a choice of written or creative tasks linked to their learning so far.
Slide 13: Activity 3 – Organise the facts about the reforms worksheet instructions
Slide 14: Printable worksheet
Slide 15: Organise the facts answer sheet
Slide 16: Follow Up Challenge tasks and questions
Slide 17: Learning Review Activity Pyramid.

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