Any must use resources for the Industrial Revolution?

[Runningmom80]

Title kind of says it all!  My DS did The Big History Project last year and really enjoyed the parts dealing with the Industrial revolution.  He requested a deep dive for history this year and I've never planned anything this specific. 

 

We live in Cleveland so I'm hoping to tour some old factories from our hay day ?

[SporkUK]

Likely there will be similar stories some local to you, but when we dug deep into it we started with small-scale life and built outwards and one of early labour disputes in the Industrial Revolution in England that he might be interested in was the Lockout at Derby Silk Mill which there is a small film that was made in Derby partially at the site of it (which is now a museum, saved partially because it's one of the first industrial silk mills though the story goes the techniques to industrialize came from Italy and the Englishman who brought it to Derby stole them as part of early industrial espionage). We started with the small stories and then built out how that affected elsewhere and even to labour laws we have today. 

[Penelope]

The Great Courses has a lecture course on the Industrial Revolution? You could pick and choose which to listen to. I don’t know how interesting it would be to a middle schooler, but most eighth graders I’d think could follow it just fine.

[SanDiegoMom]

I have listed for next year a book called the Children who built Victorian London. For Lit you could do A Christmas Carol. I will look more at my list tomorrow and see if anything else stands out. We are covering it briefly next year in Modern History. 

[Lori D.]

So, one way of ordering your study would be to  divide a year-long study into three 12-week units for the three phases, and schedule materials accordingly:
- 1st phase = 18th century (focus: 1760s-1850s) = start of the Industrial Revolution, starts in England, spreads to US/Western Europe
- 2nd phase = 19th century (focus: 1860s-1950s) = Second Industrial Revolution, U.S. and spreads to Russia, Japan, etc.
- 3rd phase = 20th century (focus: 1960s-present = Asian Tigers (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, etc.)

Or, if the bulk of your student's interest is English (18th century) and US (19th century) Industrial revolutions, then focus on each for 1 semester. Or, shorter units, if going deep, but not spending the entire year on the topic. However, there are tons of tangential topics you could cover that fit right in, so it wouldn't be hard to spend an entire year on this.

For example:
- English spinning mills
- British coal mines, social classes, etc.
- inventions and inventors, machines that advanced industry
- biographies of industrialists (esp. in US 19th century)
- US immigrants, tenements, and child labor (late 19th century, early 20th century)
- world events -- The Year of the Horseless Carriage: 1801 (Foster)

Below are some resources to help get you started. Have fun! Warmest regards, Lori D.

books
Mill (Macauley) -- gr. 5+; see go-along video below
Kids Discover magazine: Industrial Revolution -- gr. 4-8
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and His Crusade Against Child Labor (Freedman) -- gr. 5-8
The Industrial Revolution: Workers and Their Lives (Nardo) -- gr. 7-10
The Industrial Revolution in Britain (Nardo) -- gr. 7-10
The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Allen) -- gr. 8+
The Industrial Revolution in World History (Stearns) -- gr. 8+
Teacher Created Materials: Primary Source Readers: Industrial Revolution, and, Industrial Giants -- gr. 4-6
Industrial Revolution for Kids: People & Technology That Changed the World, plus 21 Activities (Mullenbach) -- gr. 4-6

websites
Modern World History text: Industrial Revolution -- BCP website online text, images and links

research
key Industrial Revolution people and groups -- Biography website list
key Industrial Revolution inventions -- Interesting Engineering website list
Industrial Revolution timeline and key events -- Saho website timeline

literature / historical fiction
Lyddie; Bread and Roses Too (Paterson) -- gr. 5-8
Beyond the Western Sea: Lord Kirkle's Money (book 2  (Avi) -- gr. 5-8
Jonathon (Lovett) -- gr. 7-9 -- OOP
My Story: Mill Girl (Reid) -- gr. 4-8
Counting on Grace (Winthrop) -- gr. 3-7
Oliver Twist (Dickens) -- gr. 8+
The Jungle (Sinclair) -- gr. 9+

educational videos
Industrial Revolution: Spinning Mills -- 32 min.; David Macauley video go-along with his book, Mill
Industrial Revolution -- 8 min. video overview
Khan Academy: Crash Course: Industrial Revolution -- 11 min. overview
Learning Liftoff: Great Movies for Teaching History: Industrial Revolution and Roaring Twenties -- list of documentaries
The Industrial Revolution -- Teaching Company video lecture series

movies
Modern Times (1936) -- Charlie Chaplin (not set in the industrial revolution, but shows overworked factory workers)
Oliver Twist (1948) or (1968 -- musical)
North and South
The Way We Live Now

Edited September 4, 2018 by Lori D.

[Farrar]

We really liked the book The Gate in the Wall by Ellen Howard if you're looking for historical fiction. It was about that period in England - a girl escapes factory life by running away and living on a canal boat. It's a pretty unknown little novel, but we liked it better than some of the other possibilities for that period, like Lyddie.

[Runningmom80]

On 8/10/2018 at 12:33 AM, Lori D. said:

So, one way of ordering your study would be to  divide a year-long study into three 12-week units for the three phases, and schedule materials accordingly:
- 1st phase = 18th century (focus: 1760s-1850s) = start of the Industrial Revolution, starts in England, spreads to US/Western Europe
- 2nd phase = 19th century (focus: 1860s-1950s) = Second Industrial Revolution, U.S. and spreads to Russia, Japan, etc.
- 3rd phase = 20th century (focus: 1960s-present = Asian Tigers (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, etc.)

Or, if the bulk of your student's interest is English (18th century) and US (19th century) Industrial revolutions, then focus on each for 1 semester. Or, shorter units, if going deep, but not spending the entire year on the topic. However, there are tons of tangential topics you could cover that fit right in, so it wouldn't be hard to spend an entire year on this.

For example:
- English spinning mills
- British coal mines, social classes, etc.
- inventions and inventors, machines that advanced industry
- biographies of industrialists (esp. in US 19th century)
- US immigrants, tenements, and child labor (late 19th century, early 20th century)
- world events -- The Year of the Horseless Carriage: 1801 (Foster)

Below are some resources to help get you started. Have fun! Warmest regards, Lori D.

books
Mill (Macauley) -- gr. 5+; see go-along video below
Kids Discover magazine: Industrial Revolution -- gr. 4-8
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and His Crusade Against Child Labor (Freedman) -- gr. 5-8
The Industrial Revolution: Workers and Their Lives (Nardo) -- gr. 7-10
The Industrial Revolution in Britain (Nardo) -- gr. 7-10
The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Allen) -- gr. 8+
The Industrial Revolution in World History (Stearns) -- gr. 8+
Teacher Created Materials: Primary Source Readers: Industrial Revolution, and, Industrial Giants -- gr. 4-6
Industrial Revolution for Kids: People & Technology That Changed the World, plus 21 Activities (Mullenbach) -- gr. 4-6

websites
Modern World History text: Industrial Revolution -- BCP website online text, images and links

research
key Industrial Revolution people and groups -- Biography website list
key Industrial Revolution inventions -- Interesting Engineering website list
Industrial Revolution timeline and key events -- Saho website timeline

literature / historical fiction
Lyddie; Bread and Roses Too (Paterson) -- gr. 5-8
Beyond the Western Sea: Lord Kirkle's Money (book 2  (Avi) -- gr. 5-8
Jonathon (Lovett) -- gr. 7-9 -- OOP
My Story: Mill Girl (Reid) -- gr. 4-8
Counting on Grace (Winthrop) -- gr. 3-7
Oliver Twist (Dickens) -- gr. 8+
The Jungle (Sinclair) -- gr. 9+

educational videos
Industrial Revolution: Spinning Mills -- 32 min.; David Macauley video go-along with his book, Mill
Industrial Revolution -- 8 min. video overview
Khan Academy: Crash Course: Industrial Revolution -- 11 min. overview
Learning Liftoff: Great Movies for Teaching History: Industrial Revolution and Roaring Twenties -- list of documentaries
The Industrial Revolution -- Teaching Company video lecture series

movies
Modern Times (1936) -- Charlie Chaplin
Oliver Twist (1948) or (1968 -- musical)
North and South
The Way We Live Now

 

This is incredibly helpful, thank you so much for taking the time to respond! 

[Runningmom80]

On 8/10/2018 at 8:58 AM, Farrar said:

We really liked the book The Gate in the Wall by Ellen Howard if you're looking for historical fiction. It was about that period in England - a girl escapes factory life by running away and living on a canal boat. It's a pretty unknown little novel, but we liked it better than some of the other possibilities for that period, like Lyddie.

 

This looks good! Thank you.

[HollyDay]

Dd said two books that stand out for her were:

Year of the Horseless Carriage

And the Samantha American Girl books and movie

We also read A Christmas Carol

[cintinative]

If you can find it at the library: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-gilded-age-9780195166385?cc=us&lang=en&  We just covered the first chapter and it was really interesting to read exerpts from some of the big industrial owners and the journalistic criticism of them.  I would not buy this because I am not sure beyond a few chapters if there is anything for you. Just see if you can find it at the library.