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Process

1. Students will be assigned into teams. Each team will consist of four students.

2. The breakdown of teams and their responsibilities are as follows:

     a. Each team will be assigned a particular task/assignment

b. Work together to locate and process the information.  Information can be found in 

        many of the sites chosen.

c. Prepare to be prepared to present your findings and recommendations.   

3. The key assignments are as follows:

Team 1: The Agricultural Revolution.   

Team 2: What are the reasons that enabled Great Britain to be the first country to      

industrialize. Ensure the use of visuals

Team 3: Causes of the urbanization of England. Give examples of increases.

     Team 4:  The life and working/living conditions of children

Team 5: The life and working/living conditions of women

     Team 6:  The living conditions of families.

     Team 7:  The working conditions in the factories/mines

     Team 8:  The sanitary impacts in the urban areas.

     Team 9:  The environmental impacts in the urban area.

     Team 10: The conditions of the poorhouses.

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Products to produce

1.  PowerPoint Presentation that represents the causes/problems of the Industrial Revolution within the assignments themselves. Include your recommendations for change. (Teams 1-3 will not have any recommendations)

2.  A typed essay that states the assignment. Include your recommendations to the government.

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Sites to be reviewed and researched for this assignment.

Timeline of Industrial Revolution

Agricultural Revolution

Industrial Revolution Information (multiple sources for all teams) 

Technology

Social/Economic/Cultural 

Wikipedia - Industrial Revolution

Another child labor site 

Economic and social data

Victorian Web: Collection of pages about conditions in the Industrial Revolution

British National Archives. Collection of pages on the many aspects of the Industrial Revolution

Interviews  (on observation/conditions)

Multiple interviews (Views for and against child/women labor)

Women Miners (Fordham University)

Engels on life in Manchester (Fordham Univeristy)

Nightingale on rural sanitation (Fordham Univeristy)

Interview on women labor

Observations/Conditions

Working conditions

Disease

Workhouse rules/condition  (poorhouse)

Additional Sites good for all teams

Schools History organization

History World

Encyclopedia of British History, 1500-1980