TASK_15_Webquest

A WEBQUEST ON THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 

This is a Webquest on the Industrial Revolution. You have to surf the net to find some answers and show that you are a crack in the new technologies.

 • Activity One

We start here in the UK analyzing the Child Labor in factories.
http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html

There are some missing words, please find them!

1. Children sometimes worked up to ________ hours a day, with a ________ total break.
2. The treatment of children in factories was often ________ and ________, and the children's safety was generally neglected.
3. Factory owners loved ________, and they supported their reasoning with ideas that it was good for everything from the ________ to the building of the children's characters.
4. In rural areas, children would have worked long hours with hard work for their families ________, but in the cities, the children worked longer hours with harder work for large ________.

 • Activity Two

Click on the following website  and write a short paragraph (about 50 words) explaining how your childhood would have been different if you were in their place.


 • Activity Three

Let’s watch a video: Diary of a Victorian Child Worker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV3JO_RYIDE 
Write a short description on the video that you have just watched.


 • Activity Four

Find the answers to five questions that you can choose from the following website
http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/history/west/sherman/student/olc/chap17think.mhtml


 • Activity Five

Now we are going to play a little bit! Clisk on this links:
Let’s play 1 
Let’s play 2 
Let’s play 3