WebQuest

Laborers of the Industrial Revolution

Process

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Step 1: (Monday)

Handouts:
�    Time Travelers WebQuestions
�    Vocabulary List
�    Grading Rubric for WebQuest
Today you will read pages 144&145 in your text,  Our Country and Its Regions. This is a great introduction to the Industrial Revolution that progressed in our country for over 100 years. Answer the questions on your WebQuestions.

Next, watch the YouTube: Life Before the Industrial Revolution and complete the questions on the WebQuestions sheet .

Review the Vocabulary List and complete it for the week. Add any words you discover you do not understand.  We will use those for your Individual Vocabulary List for the week. This must be e-mailed to me on Friday morning.

Step 2:  (Tuesday)
Handout:
�    Time Travelers WebQuestions
View three YouTube videos:
�    U.S. Child Labor;
�    New Machines;
�    Textile Manufacturing Before the Industrial Revolution

Complete the above sections of the WebQuestions
Using your Voki account, create a character and share in our group you feelings about what you have learned so far today. 

Consult the grading Rubric�are you on track for a great grade?


Step 3: (Wednesday)
View Two YouTube video:
�    �Learn how to Weave�� gather the supplies needed for this project

Choose a recipe to make at home for your family from the
�    �Recipes from the 1800�s�
 Website, you must consult your parent or guardian for their recommendation.

�    Watch the PowerPoint Presentation: You must pay attentions to the children�s names and the information about them. This is where you will come to understand them as real people that lived long ago. You will use the information on this PowerPoint from Mr. Hine�s journals to create your 1800 character for your group. You need to create your 1800�s character  today, where do you work, how long is your day, how old are you, how many brothers and sisters do you have, are both your parents alive? Do they work in the same factory? What is your life like? Are you happy being a worker? There is no school for you, how do you feel about that?  You will begin your group Blog today by introducing your character.

Who owned the factories the children worked in? Owners of factories are call Industrialists. Meet these two Industrialists and learn the legacy they have left behind.
�    View YouTube: Female Industrialist Rebecca Lukens
The video states that Rebecca Lukens learned about the steel industry by watching and learning from her father. On the Blog share about something you have learned to do watching or being shown from someone else.

From the video some things I want you to think about and discuss with your family tonight. Her loyal employees and her creditors respected Mrs. Lukens. How do you think that helped her when orders of her steel when down and she experienced hard times.  Would you consider her a good role model for a businessperson in our time?

�    View: Andrew Carnegie




Check the Rubric today, have you completed the requirements for a great understanding of the Industrial Revolution?

Step 4: (Thursday)
Today you need to think like your character �crawl in his or her skin�. Empathy is the capacity to recognize and, to some extent, share feelings (such as sadness or happiness) that are being experienced by another (Wikipedia).   I want you to empathize with your character. Begin writing how it would feel to be a child who had to work very hard. Begin making notes of what that must be like. Think about times when you have had to work very hard for long period of time. How did your body feel, what  were your thoughts, what would you do if you knew that you would feel this way every day? What would you wish for, dream about. As this character you have very little material possessions. What do you think is important to you?

Your Blog Assignment today: You are your character in the 1800�s.  A boy you work with talks about his neighbor who reads the Bible to his family on the stoop late at night. This man tells of books that weave tells of adventures in far away places. You cannot read at all, your parents do not know how to read, how does it feel? What do you think you miss by not being able to read?

Your weaving is due tomorrow.  You must work on it in every waking hour.

 Cook your recipe from the 1800�s for your family (with the help of your parent or guardian). You will post to your Blog your experiences today. You had to work today, what was that like? Use very creative description in your writing�help the reader to understand.

Step 5: (Friday)
Email me your Vocabulary list completed with definitions before 11:00 am.

Screen cast: Take an image of your cloth weaving and make a Screencast explaining the process and answer at least the following questions.  What did you learn about creating cloth? What was your experience weaving? Can you understand what great changes  machines brought when they invented to replace weavers. Weavers were specialized workers, what do you think happened when they were no longer hired to produce fabric? How could they provide for their family? Can you imagine how it must have been to have to make everything you needed and grow all the food you consumed?

After experiencing the life of a child of the Industrial Revolution, do you want to stay in that time or come back to the 21st Century? Do you have a new appreciation for your life in this century? 

Now watch the final YouTube: Child Labour located on the Conclusion page of the WebQuest. Child labor is practiced throughout the world.  On your WebQuest Answer sheet write a paragraph that states your position on the issue of Child Labor. See the Rubric for specific details. Use the TS 123 CS format.

Friday celebration! Meet with the group in a Screencast in your characters with me. We will discuss what we learned this week.  Things I will ask from you:  Describe your character story in detail. We will wrap up all the issues we learned into a big package of what we know...every one contributes. How is life the same? How has it changed? What is your opinion about child labor? Do you think you will appreciate the material wealth you have differently now? See you on the cast!

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