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Middle Years Program ­ Year 2
Subject: Individuals and Societies
Area of Interaction
Unit: Industrial Revolution
Significant Concept(s)
Health and Social Education:
Key Concept:
Systems
Industrialization usually
transforms a society's systems, in
areas including health, prosperity,
technology and social structure,
in both positive and negative
ways.
Unit Question
Man or Machine?
Content / Skills
Content
● Inventions
● Industrialization
● Urbanization
● Sustainability
● Revolution
● Industrialization in Japan
Skills:
● Reading and analyzing primary sources
● Formulating arguments from multiple
points of view
● Showing change over time using visual
evidence
Key Terms
Assessment Tasks
1) Child Labor Trial (Criteria A, C, D)
Students will research, role­play and reflect on
the role of child labor in history, particularly
during the Industrial Revolution in England, as
well as investigating parallels to and
implications for today’s world.
2) Village Through Time (B, C, D)
Students will create annotated visual
representations of the positive and negative
changes brought about by the Industrial
Revolution.
3) Child Labor in Modern World (Formative)
Key Terms (Mother
Tongue)
Industrial
Agriculture
Urban
Rural
Machine
Economy
Revolution
Teacher Name: Mr. Alex Guenther / Ms. Rebekah Madrid
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