Curated OER
Mother Jones
In this online interactive history activity, students respond to 8 essay and short answer questions about Mother Jones and her contributions to the Progressive Movement.
Curated OER
Lesson Plan on Homeless Children
Students research reasons as to why children end up living on the streets. This activity examines reasons as to what happens to parents and adult caregivers so that they are no longer able to provide basic needs for these children. ...
Curated OER
Learning to Love
Students discuss the different kinds of love and the characteristics of a healthy relationship. They examine types of behaviors that could make a relationship unhealthy and name components of love. They evaluate their current...
Curated OER
Work And Resistance In America
Students investigate the history and events that surround the industrial revolution. They conduct research using secondary sources. They look reflectively at the history in order to build an idea of how the arts could have influenced the...
Curated OER
Getting the Children Off The Street
Students are introduced to the characteristics of street children. They identify the causes of the children leaving home and the international and regional organizations that are trying to help the situation. Using the internet, they...
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: History of Child Labor in the United States
Read this brief overview of child labor and exploitation and the attempt at reform before delving into the Supreme Court case, Hammer v Dagenhart, which overturned the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act. Included are six lesson plans based on...
Victorian Web
Brown University: Victorian Web: Child Labor
Looks at child labor in industrialized England during Victorian times. Links are provided throughout the article for additional information on related subjects.
Other
Child Labor Coalition
The Child Labor Coalition (CLC) exists to serve as a national network for the exchange of information about child labor, protect working minors, end child labor exploitation, and develop public education to combat child labor abuses.
Other
Nettlesworth Primary School: Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution
This resource provides information about child labor and the Industrial Revolution.
United Nations
United Nations: Children's Rights
Informative explanation from the United Nations about what children's rights are, the role that the U.N. is playing, and the current status of children's rights. (Published 1995)
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National Center for Missing & Exploited Children: Amber Alerts
This site explores the AMBER Alert plan. Content takes a look at what it is, why it was created, how it works, success stories, and much more.
United Nations
United Nations Cyber School Bus: 3 Plus U
This interactive exhibit follows three friends as they present information about child labor, forced labor, workers' rights, and organizations that are working to help workers. There is also information about where articles are made and...
Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: Online Grooming
Online grooming is when someone builds a relationship with a young person online because they want to trick or pressure them into doing something that may hurt or harm them. This site provides questions, answers, and tips about online...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
A virtual tour of an exhibit about sweatshops in America, from 1820 to the present. The tour includes graphic images and text about sweatshops and their history.