Bumper lesson looking at: why children were employed, the dangers they faced, and the extent reforms improved things. Lots of good source reliability work too. Always love teaching this one, the students are always shocked by the gory details! (might take 2 lessons)
Key words provided to be printed, can be stuck in.
Starter = task based on the classic Horrible Histories ‘Work Terrible Work’ song
Task looking at two pictures - one photograph and one drawing - of conditions for child workers, students annotate with the dangers they see. Follow on talking about reliability and what makes something reliable - what does that mean about how much we can trust either picture?
Main source task - source sheet and table to fill in included - assessing attitudes to child workers and their conditions, and looking at the reliability of each source. Students come to their on conclusion about whether child labour should have happened.
Task looking at factory reforms - pupils choose the examples they think made the biggest difference and explain why
Finishes with 2 GCSE style ‘describe’ questions (based on AQA)
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