Source Analysis Task - The Industrial Revolution (Print-Ready Workbook!)

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Did the Industrial Revolution (1750-1914) result in more positive or negative outcomes for society? This Workbook includes primary and secondary sources on life expectancy, economic growth, factory conditions, child labour, and population density during and after the Industrial Revolution.

It can be used as a lesson of independent work or as a formative assessment (short-answer test) at the end of a unit on the Industrial Revolution.

Answer key included.

Designed for use within the Year 9 Australian Curriculum for History (Making a Better World?) though curriculum links can easily be made for other jurisdictions.

Questions within the worksheet foster the following higher-order thinking skills:

- Using evidence

- Continuity and change over time

- Cause and effect

- Perspectives and empathy

- Pros & cons

- Data analysis

- Primary and secondary sources

- Comparing and contrasting