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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWork, Lyddie! Work!
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: American Democracy, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, 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 / HyperLinkWho Really Built America
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, EconomicsWho 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 / HyperLinkUnited We Stand
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, EconomicsUnited 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 / HyperLinkTriangle Factory Fire
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, History-Social Science, EconomicsThis 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 / HyperLinkThe Samuel Gompers Papers
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis EDSITEment-reviewed Web site, from the University of Maryland, provides an annotated collection of primary sources on Ameri...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Labor Hall of Fame
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis 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 / HyperLinkThe Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: American Democracy, World History, United States History, Writing Strategies 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 / HyperLinkThe First Labor Day
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, History-Social Science, 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, United States History, EconomicsIn 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 / HyperLinkSeries of Photographic Documents of Social Conditions, 1905-1939
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: United States History, Types of Media, Visual Arts, Literary Analysis 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 / HyperLinkPhotographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, Writing Strategies, Types of Media 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 / HyperLinkNational Child Labor Committee Collection
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Photographs, primarily by Lewis Hine, focusing on children, showing workers, working and living conditions, and educational sett...Contributor: Library of CongressViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHenry Ford and the Model T: A Case Study in Productivity (Part 2)
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Economics, History-Social ScienceIn 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 / HyperLinkHenry Ford and the Model T: A Case Study in Productivity (Part 1)
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Economics, History-Social ScienceIn 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 / HyperLinkGiving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: World History, Reading Comprehension, United States History, Writing Strategies 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 / HyperLinkChild Labor in America
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, Types of Media, Visual Arts 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 / HyperLinkChild Labor: Giving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, United States History, Writing Strategies, 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 / HyperLinkChicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1886-1887
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, EconomicsChicago 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 / 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 / HyperLinkAnthracite Coal Strike
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, History-Social Science, 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