Card Sort: What were the causes of poverty in 1900?

This great resource makes an excellent starter, plenary or even a mini plenary to a lesson on the causes of poverty at the start of the 20th Century. I usually use this resource whilst teaching the Liberal Reforms as part of GCSE Modern World History, but more recently I have also used it for teaching / revising this topic as part of GCSE Medicine Through Time.

The resource includes a series of causes of poverty which students have to cut out and match to the with the correct explanation (consequence) of how they increased poverty. Alternatively, students could create a key to help match them up to correctly. As a stretch and challenge task, students could them organise them into the order of importance before feeding back to a class discussion and sticking them into their book.

The aims and objectives of this lesson are:

Theme: The Liberal Reforms 1906 - 1911
Know: What were the causes of poverty?
Understand: What impact did these causes of poverty have on peoples lives?
Evaluate: Which causes would have had the greatest impact?

WILF - What Am I Looking For?
Identify & Describe: The causes of poverty in 1900?
Explain: How the different factors made the poverty of working class people worse?
Analyse: Which causes would have had the greatest impact or consequences on peoples lives?

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Roy