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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: United States History, American Democracy, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts 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: Visual Arts, United States History, Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science 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, 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 / 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 / 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 / HyperLinkChild Labor in America
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Types of Media, Visual Arts, United States History, American Democracy 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: American Democracy, History-Social Science, Electives, Economics, 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: Types of Media, Visual Arts, United States History, American Democracy 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: American Democracy, Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, United States History, English-Language ArtsIn 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: 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 / HyperLinkGiving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: United States History, Reading Comprehension, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, History-Social Science 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: 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 / 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
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 / 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 / HyperLinkSeries of Photographic Documents of Social Conditions, 1905-1939
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Types of Media, Visual Arts, United States History, Visual Arts & Performing Arts 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