Effects of the Industrial Revolution on the 21st century Lesson 3: Negative effects
Learning goal:Students are able to describe pictures of the Industrial revolution in their own words.
Assignment 1 - Describe the four pictures on the right in one/two sentences per picture. - What do you see? How do you feel about these pictures?
Assignment 2 - Listen the following song. While listening, write down your thoughts and feelings about the Industrial revolution. Song
Assignment 3 - Listen to the song again. Beneath is a list of different items. Tick off the items which you hear in the song. 1. Farming 2. Sports 3. Jobs 4. Technology 5. Food 6. Machines 7. Buildings 8. Textile industry 9. James Watt 10. Lamps 11. Chairs 12. Spinning Jenny 13. Telegraph 14. Electricity 15. Working hours 16. Children 17. Books 18. Labor 19. Money 20. Trains
Assignment 4 - Imagine yourself being the King/Queen of The Netherlands during the Industrial Revolution. You now know what negative effects the Industrial Revolution has had. - Write a proper speech to all people who are working in these bad conditions.
- Speech will include the following: - What will be improved? Name at least 3 things. - How are you going to do this? - Why do you want to improve these things? - How will these people benefit from this? - Write a speech in 120 – 150 words. - Tip: Write your speech as if all improvements will happen in the next 5 years.
Assignment 5 - Create an infographic on the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution. - The first part of the infographic needs to show what kind of bad conditions there were during the Industrial Revolution. - The second part of the infographic shows what they (as a King/Queen) want to change about these bad conditions. Infographic