Thursday 29 May 2014

SS 9

Great presentations today you guys! Presentations can be very challenging, so I am very proud of you for getting through it!

Activities:

  • Re-cap: Innovations in transportation during the Industrial Revolution
  • Worked on questions related to pages 140-142  in Crossroads
  • Students presented their projects (inventions of the Industrial Revolution)
  • Powerpoint and notes: The transformation from the "cottage industry" to the "factory age"
  • Casey did a lesson on child labour and showed us a clip about children in the coal industry (she will be giving you a quiz tomorrow on her presentation)
  • We talked about chimney sweeping and looked at a short clip from the movie "Mary Poppins"
  • Watched 15 mins of a BBC video called "The Children Who Built Victorian Britain"
  • Worked on questions related to pages 143-146 in Crossroads
Reminders:
  • We will go over the Crossroads questions tomorrow, May 30, 2014