In this lesson, students will learn all about the events and significance of the 1888 match girls strike. This lesson can be used as a stand alone lesson about the events or as part of a wider set of lessons about women’s rights and votes for women.
The main learning aims of the lesson are:
- Who were the match girls?
- What were conditions like for the match girls?
- Why did the match girls strike?
- What was the significance of Anne Besant?
- What were the attitudes of the time towards the strike?
- What were the long and short term consequences of the strike?
This mega pack of resources is easily enough to fill 2-3 lessons depending on which resources you decide to use.
It includes:
1 x A4 Source worksheet (PDF & PPT)
1 x A4 Source table (PDF & PPT)
1 x A4 Attitudes to the strike worksheet
The main PPTX contains:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Learning Aims/Key Questions
Slide 3-4: As you enter activity with answers revealed
Slide 5: Starter Task - How might workers complain/protest about working conditions today?
Slide 6-7: Background information about the match girls
Slide 8: An outline of the first source based task (links to the A4 worksheets)
Slide 9 - 13: Background knowledge about the match girls strike
Slide 14: Task - Attitudes to the strike
Slide 15: Task - Create a poster or campaign speech in support of the strike (with full instructions)
Slide 16-18: Task - Storyboard with instructions and printable resource
Slide 19: Follow up challenge tasks
Slide 20: Learning Review
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All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
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