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Contextualizing the Industrial Revolution

Anne Koschmider

As much as I like the OER Project's contextualization activity for child labor, I think I'd like to sub that out with the Sadler Report activity this year. However, I still think there is value in students applying the skill of contextualization to the Industrial Revolution. So, I came up with this assignment to combine the reading (with highlighting key things that happened before, during, and after industrialization) with the new "context card" approach as a drag and drop and a culminating paragraph.

I like to say that lesson plans are like pancakes: the first batch is never the best, but then it gets better. Knowing that this assignment likely has some bugs to work out, I'd love to get some feedback from the community before rolling this out to students. If you have any suggestions, I am all ears! Thanks in advance!

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  •  , your post reminded me of a recent blog post from   to reframe the industrial revolution away from the 'winners' and 'losers' in the industrial race, but to connect the various peoples' efforts to build and shape a global economy.  I appreciate his charge to refocus on the successes snd struggles within the humanity of our human history, and strive for this in my own lessons.  Perhaps using the graphic bios for Iwasaki and Baader can help us 'zoom in' on the people, and generate conversations about how various people responded to these moments in time.

    Revolutions is a long way off, but it gives me time to plan & prep for that big part of our curriculum.

  • in reply to Gwen Duralek

    Thanks for mentioning my post. I love the idea of weaving in more individual stories to focus on how people all over the world are contributing to a global economic shift. I wish I had some for folks in places such as Egypt or Bengal that I wrote about. 

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  • in reply to Gwen Duralek

    Thanks for mentioning my post. I love the idea of weaving in more individual stories to focus on how people all over the world are contributing to a global economic shift. I wish I had some for folks in places such as Egypt or Bengal that I wrote about. 

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