Industrial Revolution This project is designed to help you become a more independent learner and to develop skills which will help you throughout your time at school As you have seen the silver passport takes you on a journey to becoming a thinker source analyst and an enquirer If you chos ID: 308794
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Year 8 History Independent Project Two Industrial Revolution
This project is designed to help you become a more independent learner and to develop skills which will help you throughout your time at school.As you have seen the silver passport takes you on a journey to becoming a thinker, source analyst and an enquirer. If you chose your activities for this project carefully you can gain stamps for some of your key skills and continue on your journey.HOW TO USE THIS INFORMATION LEAFLET:Each project must include at least 4 activities. You can choose the activities you wish to do.The activities you choose will have a little stamp near them telling you which skills they are testing.Use your passport to help you decide which skills you need to focus on.Slide2
Overcrowding
populationPoor hygienePoor housing
Pollution
Sewage
Design
a poster warning people about
One of the problems in industrial towns telling
them what they must do to avoid them
!
(Explain in as much detail as you can how the government must change the towns)
Dirty drinking water
Activity One – Problems in Industrial towns
Carry Out
ConsequenceSlide3
W
rite a detailed report on an industrial town showing what life was like for the people who lived there.You could include the following....Number of people living in that area/ number of people to a houseTypes of houses and what the houses were like inside and out
PICTURES
PRIMARY SOURCES
INFORMATION FROM SECONDARY TEXT BOOKS
Conditions in that area (sewage, drinking water and privies)
PRIMARY SOURCES
INFORMATION FROM SECONDARY TEXT BOOKS
Activity Two – Newspaper Report
Carry Out
Hypothesis
InferenceSlide4
Source A:
There were terrible accidents. Sometimes the children’s arms and hands were caught in the machinery; in many instances the muscles and the skin is stripped down to the bone, and in some instances a finger or two might be lost. Comment from a Doctor in ManchesterSource B: I have seen a factory owner with a horse whip standing outside the mill. He punished children who came late.
John
Fairbrother
, an
overlooker
, interviewed in 1819
Source C:
Very often the children are woken at 4am. They work for 16hours with little breaks, until they go home at night to their parents.Richard Oastler, interviewed in 1832Questions:Source A What accidents happened in the factories according to Source A?
What does this say about the conditions the children worked in?Source B3. How were the children punished?
4. What words would you use to describe this treatment? (e.g. Cruel)Source C
5. How many hours were worked each day and what do you think about this?
Source D6. Why does John
Fielden say Factory Work is unsuitable for children?7. What affects do you think factory work could have on a child’s growth?
Source D
:
Factory work is unfit for children. Cooped up in a heated atmosphere, without proper exercise, remaining in one position for a series of hours, one set or system of muscles alone called into activity. It affects the physical growth of a child
.
John
Fielden
, a Factory Owner
Message and Purpose
Hypothesis
Analyse
Activity Three – Factory ConditionsSlide5
It is going to be your job to investigate claims that these factories are using child workers. You need to find evidence to question the factory owner with.
‘The conditions in factories for Children’ To help you with writing this report you will need to do some research on the following:• The Jobs children did• Accidents which often happened• Punishments children faced• The Food children were given
• The Hours children worked
B) Begin compiling your report thinking of a good heading and detailing what your research has found. Include examples of your evidence (pictures / Statistics)
C) Prepare a list of questions for a factory owner.
Activity Four - Investigation
Analyse
Consequence
HypothesisSlide6
What
do you think was the most dangerous part about working in a factory and why?Significance
Carry Out
Consequence
Activity Five – Factory Conditions
Plan and answer the following question drawing on some research and evidence you may have gathered to help you answer the question:Slide7
Look at this cartoon from the nineteenth century.
What can you see is happening in the picture?
Who is the figure turning the machine supposed to be?
What is being put into the machine?
What is being produced by the machine?
What do you think the cartoon is trying to say?
Does it give a positive or negative view of working conditions?
Activity Six – Workers in the factory
Message and Purpose
Inference
HypothesisSlide8
In
1848 the first Public Health Act caused the setting up of a Board of Health, and gave towns the right to appoint a Medical Officer of Health.In 1853 vaccination against smallpox was made compulsory.In 1854 improvements in hospital hygiene were introducedIn 1875 a Public Health Act enforced laws about slum clearance, provision of sewers and clean water, and the removal of nuisances.
Activity Seven – Public Health
What was significant about the Public Health Acts?
Why
didn’t
Public Health
improve before 1850?
Significance
Change and Continuity
ConsequenceSlide9
Activity Eight – Jack the Ripper Suspects
George Chapman
Michael
Ostrog
Your own guess!?
Aaron
Kosminski
Prince Albert
Look up some information on the suspects above and write a brief paragraph about them.
Answer the question:‘Who do you think is the most likely suspect for the Jack the Ripper Murders and why?
Carry Out
AnalyseSlide10
The number of problems that the police faced in 1888 made it more difficult to capture the Whitechapel
murderer!Do you agree or disagree with this statement?Find information that either agrees or disagrees with this statement and put it into a table:AgreeDisagreeWhitechapel was a very crowded area, the police found it hard to interview
everybody.
The streets were dark and had no lights so no body could see the killer
The police did not work together and argued,
this meant they lost time and evidence
Carry Out
Hypothesis
Significance
Activity Nine – Police investigation into the RipperSlide11
Two Police forces
Significance
Change and Continuity
Analyse
Activity Ten – Police investigation into the Ripper
Which
of these problems do you consider to be the most important and why?
*(you may want to research the problems and use evidence in your answer)*
What
modern days techniques and police facilities may have helped catch
the ‘Ripper’ if the police in 1888 had had access to them?
Lack of a reward
Lack of witnesses
Lack of modern technology
Abuse of evidenceSlide12
Carry Out
Analyse
Activity Ten – Police investigation into the Ripper
You are a reporter working for the ‘London News’ in 1888. Your editor
is pestering
you to write a report on the actions of the police in the ‘
Jack the
Ripper’ case.
You
have to write a 300 word article on everything that the police are doing to capture the Whitechapel killer.