Industrial Revolution: Factories

The lesson focuses upon a series of student led tasks to assess and judge the worst aspect of factory conditions.

Lesson begins with intention and outcomes linked with the first recorded video footage from 1895 of factory workers to hook students in.

Students starter task sees them working in pairs through a ‘write - round - robin’ task where they will write the alphabet down the side of their book and pass between themselves to write as many adjectives as they can about factories in a set amount of time. Teacher will show image on the interactive white board. Prize to winning team who complete as many words as possible.

Students are then to watch a video (embedded) on life in a Victorian Factory - they are tasked with bullet pointing as many negative aspects of work life as they can. students then engage with a PICTIONARY style activity to embed the identified negative aspects (all explained within the PP description).

Students then either use their own ideas or the card sort provided to rank order factory conditions from worst to least to form an over all judgment as a group but then also individually. Students must justify their opinion as a plenary.

All music sounds and video are embedded into the PP.