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History at key stage 3    (Year 8)

Unit 11: Industrial changes action and reaction

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About this unit

This unit provides the opportunity for pupils to explore the main changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through a study of agriculture, industry or transport (depending on local circumstances) where they will be enabled to set local patterns in the context of national changes. Pupils will then examine the reactions to some of the changes. The unit demonstrates one way in which the requirement to include the local area in the study of Britain 1750-1900 can be met.

This unit is expected to take 8-11 hours. There is scope to adjust some of the teaching activities to take account of time constraints in different schools.


Sections in this unit

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1. What industrial changes happened in the locality around the school?
2. Local industry: what happened?
3. Did everyone agree with the industrial changes?
4. How industrialised was Britain by 1850?