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Working for a Living: Child Labor Laws

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students research the working conditions in the late 1800's and the evolution of child labor laws. They discuss how the laws affect them today and if they are fair. They write a paper summarizing the laws and the view of the laws.
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Science 4 Inquiry

Eukaryotic Cells: The Factories of Life

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Eukaryotes include humans, animals, and plants. Scholars learn about the parts of eukaryotic cells. They design models of a store and match the correct function of each part to the function of a part of the cell. They review their...
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Work

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners identify productive resources. For this economics instructional activity, students read the book Charlie Needs a Cloak and discuss productive resources the character used in the book. Learners participate in a simulated factory...
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To Strike or Not to Strike in 1830s Lowell: A Role Play

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Role play as a person living in the 1830s working in a Lowell factory. The class will take on the role of factory owner, girl on strike, talk show host, and girl not wanting to strike. Each group will analyze and research their character...
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Organizer
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Parliamentary Hearings on the Treatment of Women in Factories Great Britain, 1815

For Students 9th - 12th
In this Industrialization worksheet, students read the parts in the play based on Parliamentary hearings on the treatment of women in factories held in 1815.
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Hearings on the Treatment of Women in Factories

For Students 7th - 11th
In this women in factories worksheet, students respond to 16 short answer questions and fill in the blanks regarding information from a hearing on the treatment in women in factories during Industrialization.
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Workers in Factories During the Gilded Age

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders experience what life was like in the factories during the Gilded Age. They explore the reasons behind the move for work place reforms during the Progressive Era. Students discuss the factors that led to work place reforms.
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Work and Play

For Students 4th - 5th
In this ESL work and play worksheet, students read a list of 24 activities. Students divide them into 2 lists with the heading of "Work" or "Play."
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Understanding Characters

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students analyzing characters from a story by creating an article about one.  In this story analysis lesson, students read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, and pick one character to write descriptively about.  Students...
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Child Labor

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine how how groups and institutions work to meet individual needs and promote the common good, and identify examples of where they fail to do so. They describe how workers with specialized jobs and the ways in which they...
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Industrial Revolution

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students cite the importance of the steam engine, cotton gin and steel making process. They describe conditions in cities due to increased industrialization. They explain how the living and working conditions led to the development of...
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Vital Work

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners consider the role of women in the food industry. In this gender exploitation lesson, students work in groups to examine unfair labor practices. Learners watch a video and write a fictional letter from a female laborer. This...
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Work, Lyddie! Work!

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students research links concerning early factory labor, child labor in today's world, and diseases on young laborers. They work on a loom, analyze a mill bell schedule, read a mill girl's diary, and write a poem or song exhibiting empathy.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read and take quizzes over the book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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Primary History Children of Victorian Britain Extension Activity - Children in Factories

For Students 6th - 10th
Discuss the lives of children in Victorian England. Learners sharpen their research skills as they study the history of children who worked in factories during this time period. They complete extension projects.
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Quality Control at Kality Krunchers Dill Pickle Factory

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
In a hypothetical scenario, food chemists use titration to concoct a brine solution for producing the crunchiest pickles. They also analyze store-bought pickle juices. In addition to reinforcing titration techniques, the lesson requires...
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Water Works

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners create a "water web" to illustrate the interdependence among water users and producers. They distinguish between direct and indirect uses of water; illustrate the interconnectedness of water users in a community; and demonstrate...
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University of Wisconsin

Why Did the Triangle Fire Occur?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
An investigation of the 1911 New York City Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire leads class members to examine primary and secondary source materials related to the event and apply what they learn about the working conditions at the time to...
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Cell City Project - You are the Designer!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
How can something as large as a city and as small as a cell have anything in common? That is exactly the question young scientists explore with this engaging life science project. Choosing to focus on a city, school, factory, or other...
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EngageNY

Framing Lyddie’s Decision and Practicing Evidence Based Claims

For Teachers 7th Standards
Scholars grapple with whether the title character of Katherine Paterson's novel, Lyddie, should sign a petition about working conditions at the factory. They engage in close reading and discussion before adding their thinking about the...
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EngageNY

Grade 9 ELA Module 4, Unit 1, Lesson 13

For Teachers 9th Standards
Class members conclude their reading of the supplemental text, “Bangladesh Factory Collapse: Who Really Pays for our Cheap Clothes?” and use the provided Evaluating Argument and Evidence Tool to analyze the evidence Anna McMullen uses to...
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Lowell and the Factory System

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine the efforts of early American manufacturers to implement the factory system on a large-scale in the town of Lowell, Massachusetts. They examine the idealistic goals of the industrialists who financed and built the...
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“How it’s made…a career”

For Teachers 10th - 12th
What does it take to land a manufacturing job? Upper graders explore the objects around them, where they were manufactured, and what they need to obtain a manufacturing career. 
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National Woman's History Museum

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
On March 25, 1911, 146 garment workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Class members use primary source documents to research the tragedy and how it lead to the creation of labor unions and new labor laws. As an exit...

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