History at key stage 3 (Year 8)
Unit 11: Industrial changes action and reaction
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Section 1: What industrial changes happened in the locality around the school?
Children should learn:
- to use local maps to identify changes in industrial growth and development
- to extract information from local maps and present this as a flow-chart to show one aspect of local change over time
- to identify the main features of local industrial changes
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Section 2: Local industry: what happened?
Children should learn:
- about the development and significance of a local industry
- to interrogate local source material in order to answer a specific question
- to plan and to carry through a group presentation of findings
- to make comparisons between local industry and the national context
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Section 3: Did everyone agree with the industrial changes?
Children should learn:
- to undertake small-scale independent research on the Luddite, Swing or Rebecca riots
- about the opportunities for ordinary people to protest
- to formulate questions on a historical topic which deals with motivation
- the likely responses of different social groups to change
- to present supported judgements orally
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Section 4: How industrialised was Britain by 1850?
Children should learn:
- that by 1850 some areas of the country were heavily industrialised and others were not
- that the rate and nature of change in the three industries of transport, agriculture and production differed
- to carry out investigations based on a range of sources, to hypothesise and reach and test conclusions
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