WEBQUEST:   Industrialization and Reform:  

FROM: New Literacies Collaborative

 http://newlitcollaborative.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-industrial-revolution-and-reform-a-webquest

Webpage #1:  “The Industrial Revolution,” http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution  (Read the contents of the page and watch the Industrial Revolution video).

Questions

1. What are some major events from the Industrial Revolution?
2. How did industrialization affect people’s lives in Great Britain and across the world?

Webpage #2:   “Women and the Early Industrial Revolution in the United States,” Thomas Dublin, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, http://www.gilderlehrman.org/ historynow/12_2006/historian4.php (Read the entire article).

Questions

1. How were women involved in the Industrial Revolution?
2. How did the role of women change as a result of industrialization?

Webpage #3: “The Industrial Revolution in the United States:  Primary Source Set,” Library of Congress,http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/in... (Click the “view PDF” links below the “Child Labor in the Canning Industry of Maryland” and “Breaker boys, Woodward Coal Mines, Kingston, Pa” sections).

Questions

1. How did the Industrial Revolution affect American children?
2. How did people address the problem of child labor in the United States?

Webpage #4:  “Industrializing America,” America’s History in the Making,http://www.learner.org/courses/amerhistory/units/14/ (Click “Start Here” to read through the text and look at the artifacts).

Questions

1. How did the American public address the problems that resulted from the Industrial Revolution?
2. How did industrialization cause social and political reform?

Webpage #5: The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/ (Use this website to find a current issue to discuss in your lecture).

Questions

1. What is the name and who is the author of your article? Provide a summary of the article’s content.
2. How can you connect the article with the Industrial Revolution?

EvaluationThe rubric for this assignment can be found at http://www.rcampus.com/rubricshowc.cfm?code=B65X99&sp=true&...

Conclusion

This webquest should show you how the Industrial Revolution affected U.S. history and connects with current events.  Although you may not be a professor at Harvard Law School (yet!), your application of history to current issues can help you take an active role in our country’s progress.  If you help the American public evaluate current problems within a historical context, you can promote change that will affect us all.  Remember, your ideas are valuable and you should not underestimate the impact that you can have on the world.