Industrial Revolution: Roads, Turnpike Trusts and the Golden Age of Coaching 1750 - 1900

This outstanding resource looks at a number of key historical issues linked to the building of roads in Britain during the Transport Revolution 1750 - 1900. It is designed to put some of the fun back into teaching the Industrial Revolution through engaging content and fun, interactive activities.

This lesson belongs to a series of lessons following on from the free introductory lesson that has been uploaded to the TES website called the ‘Transport Revolution.’ If you wish to preview the high quality resources and activities that have been created for this series, then please download it first to make sure that these resources fit with your teaching style.

The PowerPoint contains aims, objectives, differentiated outcomes, starters, plenaries, information slides, historical sources, links to video clips, tasks and a full range of activities to suit all learners… Everything is provided in Microsoft office so can be easily edited to suit your classes.

Treat yourself to a much earn rest and download this resource and spend some more time with your family, whilst being confident that you are delivering a lesson that will be at least ‘good’ with ‘outstanding.’

The aims and objectives in Blooms are:

Theme: The Transport Revolution 1750 - 1900
Know: What state were the roads in 1745?
Understand: What improvements were made to the building of roads?
Evaluate: How did these improvements help the Industrial Revolution?
Skills: Cause, Consequence, Change, Continuity and Source Evaluation.

WILF: What Am I Looking For?
Identify & describe: The problems with Britain roads in 1745?
Explain: How did the building and design of roads improved?
Analyse: Begin to come to a judgement on how successful these changes were to both society and the economy?

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