Industrial Revolution - Child Labour

Whole lesson plus all resources and worksheets needed for teaching: Did child labour end in the Victorian Period?

This is a fascinating lesson that gets students to think about modern day child labour and compare it with Victorian child labour.

Students will look at the work completed by children in the Victorian Period through a variety of tasks, and then they will assess the situation today, first by looking at the case study of Nike using child labour (great link to History in the news), followed by a selection of videos that go through the modern day child labour situation. They will also research the various government acts put in place to stop child labour, using the information sheet (PROVIDED!) onto a differentiated table.

Students will then complete one of three differentiated tasks assessing child labour.

Please review if you purchase, and check out my other Industrial Revolution resources, such as ‘life for children in the factories’.