British Industrial Revolution & Empire - 17 Lessons - Whole Semester of Work

Industrial Revolution:

A Wolsey Academy Series of Lessons on the Industrial Revolution. Target is Middle School but all assessments throughout are geared at preparing students for higher-level questions.

Each lesson contains a lesson plan, a quick start guide, printable resources, mini plenaries, challenge questions, mark schemes, writing frames, lots of differentiation, a nice mix of activity types, and a lesson specific EAL activity sheet. There are 14 lessons in total, but each lesson has enough material to last 2 or 3 lessons for even high ability classes.

Most lessons include some high-level source analysis.

This Series of Lessons has been used for several years (with continual updates and improvements) at a very successful History department in an outstanding school.

The SOW covers the following topics:

1. Introduction to the Industrial Revolution (free)
2. Population Boom (free)
3. Factories
4. Coal Mining
5. Transport
6. Robert Stephenson
7. Industrial Revolution inventors
8. Child Labour
9. Public Health Problems
10. Public Health Solutions & Government Intervention
11. Source Question on the Big Stink
12. Luddites
13. British Empire
14. Source Question on Empire
15. Revision Guide & EAL activities.
16. William Cuffay & The Chartists (Black History Month lesson)
17. Causes of Indian Independence (Amritsar)

Please visit www.wolseyacademy.com/history for more SOW and to access the Cardinal’s Corner blog which provides justification and commentary on this SOW and many others.

Hope it helps.

Note: The spellings in this Series of Lessons are in English (UK). Apologies in advance.