1. Unit 2: The Industrial Revolution Lesson 4
The Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain: Examining Urbanization, the Factory System, and the Changing of the “Old Guard”

2. Agenda for the day: Introduction/recap Collection of Exit Slips
Learning Targets
Jigsaw Activity
Conclusion and wrap-up
Quick Discussion of the Project
Exit Slip

3. Activating Prior Knowledge:
What did we discuss in Friday’s lesson?
What would you consider Historically Significant of the lesson?
When considering the shift in society, what can we say changed and what stayed the same, before and after the Industrial Revolution began?
Can we pinpoint any specific invention/innovation/moment that caused things to happen the way that they did?

4. Learning Targets: You will be able to:
Understand the social changes/conflict in Great Britain due to the Industrial Revolution.
Understand the immediate and long term impact of urbanization on society during the Industrial period.

5. Jigsaw Activity: Playing Cards between 1 and 5.
Card Number: Article Number
Organizer Hand-Out (I will be collecting these)
10 minutes to read your articles.
10 minutes to discuss within your groups.
Work together to learn the material, since you will be regrouped with students from other groups who learned about different articles.

6. Jigsaw Activity (2): Join a new group of 5.
Make sure that each of you have different articles to discuss.
15 minutes to discuss your articles within your new group.
You will be responsible for teaching your material to your new group of partners.
We will then share, group by group, what we have learned as a class.

7. …Continuation of Monday’s Lesson
Continuation of Jigsaw Activity
Discussion of articles
Collect your organizers
Collect any outstanding exit slips.
Further discussion of Industrialized Britain.

8. Project Choices:
Work period for Industrial Revolution is Wednesday.
Please have your project choices submitted to me by Tuesday. We will take a bit of time in class on Tuesday to discuss options/choices.
**All projects must be approved!!!

9. Historical Thinking Concepts:
*Remember to take notes during reading, discussion, and teaching of the articles.
Using the Historical Thinking Concepts as our guiding tools, I want you to consider these things while reading, discussing, and teaching the different articles.

10. Urbanization
What was Historically Significant of Urbanization?
What changed within Great Britain due to Urbanization? Why should we consider it important?
How does Urbanization affect other countries?

16. Working Conditions What were the working conditions like?
What percentage of the population was of the working class?
Why did the working class have little bargaining power?
Does this situation remind you of anything?
How did Urbanization affect employment rates?

18. Working Conditions (2) Very Poor: No vote, Combinations Act,
80% of society
Infrastructure: living, working, etc., was not prepared for the influx of population into the cities
10 to 14 hour work days, 6 days a week

19. Living Conditions
How did the quality of living conditions change during the Industrial Revolution?
Did it affect everyone the same?
What happened to the skilled workers?
How was poverty, homelessness, and sickness, directly connected to the Industrial Revolution?
What were the Poor Laws?

21. Historical Thinking Concepts (2)
What do you consider Historically Significant of these social aspects?
What has continued to stay the same within society and what has changed?
--Is all change good? Is it all bad? Make sure to ask the questions.
What were the “agents of change” in your article? Were they planned, etc.…?
How was the treatment of women and children?
--Do you feel it was necessary, or are there things that could have been done differently and still had the same effect?

22. Living Conditions

23. Living Conditions (2) Quality of life decreased
Skilled work was not as valued
Many people who had been “Middle Class” were now without work due to the machines doing their once sought after work
Industrial life and pace affected the “traditional” festivals and community-centered events
Poor Laws of 1834

25. Public Health and Life Expectancy
What was it like to live in Britain during the Industrial Revolution?
What led to poor sanitary conditions?
Is clean drinking water still an issue in today’s society?

26. Public Health and Life Expectancy

29. Public Health and Life Expectancy (3)
Urban overcrowding
Poor diets
Poor sanitation
Medieval medical remedies

30. Working Class Families: The Role of Women, and Child Labor
How did the Industrial Revolution change the role of the family?
Are there things that stay the same within the family?
How was the family economy changed?
How did the work become gender-specific?
What was life like for a lot of children during the Industrial Revolution?
What do you think of the conditions?
Do these practices still occur today?
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31. Working Class Families: The Role of Women, and Child Labor
Completely changed the role of the family
Agricultural-to-Industrial
Work became gendered-specific
Separate Spheres

34. Agenda for the day: Change it for Tuesday’s Class
Introduction/recap
Learning Targets
Video Clips and Discussion: Examining Industrial Society
Jigsaw Activity
Conclusion and wrap-up
Exit Slip