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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, World History, History-Social Science and 2 additional..In this lesson from EDSITEment, students research working conditions in the Age of Industrialization and examine worker response...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkChild Labor: Giving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts and 3 additional..In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students learn about historical and modern instances of child labor. Students gather information ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHenry Ford and the Model T: A Case Study in Productivity (Part 1)
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, EconomicsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EconEdLink, students learn about Henry Ford's use of mass production strategies to...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHenry Ford and the Model T: A Case Study in Productivity (Part 2)
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, EconomicsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EconEdLink, students identify Henry Ford as an innovator who helped revolutionize ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWho Really Built America
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, Economics, United States HistoryWho Really Built America is a long-term student-driven project that examines primary source materials related to child labor in ...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkChicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1886-1887
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, Economics, United States HistoryChicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1886-1887 showcases more than 3,800 images of original manuscri...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnited We Stand
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, Economics, United States HistoryUnited We Stand provides primary source documents that students use to examine the working conditions of U.S. laborers at the tu...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkChild Labor in America
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States History and 2 additional..This multi-week lesson plan, from the Library of Congress, asks students to critically examine, respond to, and report on photog...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerican Memory: The Learning Page Lesson Plans - Who Really Built America?
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Electives, History-Social Science, Economics, American Democracy, SociologyIn this unit, students are immersed in primary source materials that relate to child labor in America from 1880-1920 to gain a p...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPhotographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, History-Social Science and 4 additional..This lesson, from the National Archives and Records Administration, relates to the First Amendment rights, including freedom of ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: In the Playtime of Others: Child Labor in the Early 20th Century (1988)
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Online issue activities related to the work and working conditions of child laborers in the early twentieth century.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWork, Lyddie! Work!
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, American Democracy, United States HistoryIn this lesson, from SCORE, students find out what it was like to have to work instead of having the chance to go to school. The...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTriangle Factory Fire
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Economics, American DemocracyThis resource, from Cornell University, features an online exhibit on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 garment...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGiving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Geography and 5 additional..In this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students gather information using selected Web sites and explore issues related to child la...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe First Labor Day
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis page, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, focuses on significant events in American history and culture associ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnthracite Coal Strike
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis page, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, focuses on significant events in American history and culture associ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStriking a Deal: Learning the History of American Labor Strikes
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Economics, United States HistoryIn this lesson, found on the New York Times Learning Network, students explore the economic repercussions of a potential Major L...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Labor Hall of Fame
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis activity, from the Schools of California Online Resources for Education Web site, has students create a museum-like exhibit...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSeries of Photographic Documents of Social Conditions, 1905-1939
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, Visual Arts, History-Social Science and 3 additional..This collection of images, presented by The New York Public Library Digital Gallery, depicts early 20th-century American immigra...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Samuel Gompers Papers
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis EDSITEment-reviewed Web site, from the University of Maryland, provides an annotated collection of primary sources on Ameri...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0