Starter Activity How many things can you think of in your house that were invented in the last 150 years? EXTENSION QUESTION: Have these inventions always made life better?

Britain : How did life change? L/O To be able to describe how life changed in Britain during the years To be able to evaluate whether these changes were positive or negative

Background The years are known as the Industrial Revolution. It was a period of great change. See if you can work out what some of these changes were from looking at the following pictures.

Complete the following table What forms of power can you see? What forms of transport can you see? What jobs are there? Are there lots of people living in one place?

Are these changes positive or negative?

Focus on Birmingham

What changes were there in Birmingham? Task: -Read through the cards about Birmingham in the industrial revolution. -Put them into chronological order -Place them on your graph to show whether they were positive or negative changes. Task: -Read through the cards about Birmingham in the industrial revolution. -Put them into chronological order -Place them on your graph to show whether they were positive or negative changes.

Reaching conclusions: Did Birmingham change for the better or for the worse? On the one hand many of the changes were for the better. For example... This was an improvement because... However, on the other hand there were many costs to the changes such as... Overall, I would say...  Write your conclusion.

Plenary – Was the Industrial Revolution a good thing for Britain? This is our key question that we will be looking at over a number of lessons. Based on what you have learnt so far, what do you think? Oh yes! No way, Jose!