Industrial Revolution: Global Impact

Full lesson, designed for use with KS3 students to look into how working conditions improved during the Industrial Revolution.

Begins with teacher input outlining how demand for raw materials impacted colonised areas across the world. This is followed by a colour-coding card task, identifying how the revolution impacted Britain vs. other countries in positive / negative ways.

The PowerPoint then features a map of how the Industrial Revolution spread across the rest of the globe, and provides students with some information in order to construct a timeline of how this developed across the 18th and 19th centuries.

Finally, the lesson then asks students to think about the world they live in today, and reflect on how things would not be the way they are had it not been for the Industrial Revolution. In their pairs, they should then try to think more broadly about the positive and negative long-term impacts of the revolution, and construct a list in their books.

This can be followed by a class discussion, and rounded off with the final slide of the PowerPoint which reflects on whether we have reached the limit of industrialisation, or whether further progress is to come.

Includes lesson PowerPoint, two task worksheets and an information sheet. All can be edited to adjust lesson if desired.