Activities from c.1700-1900
The activities don’t really need any introduction – simply, they cover the period from around 1700 to 1900 – and, at present, the list isn’t long enough to need sub-dividing. But that may happen, sometime in the future.
Activities
When did Prime Ministers and Parliament become more powerful than the monarch? |
Complete the thematic story of monarchy with a graph showing when monarchs really lost power |
Why was 18th century smuggling so profitable, and so accepted? |
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Recreate the journey times before and after turnpikes and revolutionise understanding |
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Why did Prime Ministers become more powerful than the monarch c.1780-1830? |
A quick card sort to summarise the reasons for change in royal power |
Liven up the railway revolution with a trip from Stockton to Darlington |
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Find the connections and show how one invention led to another and transformed the textile industry |
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A sorting activity helping students see why life changed so much during the Industrial Revolution |
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A role play that’s simply not fair – but very good for learning |
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Test your acting skills and get your students researching Chartism with renewed interest and purpose |
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Find out how Andy Harmsworth provides his students with an engaging and memorable introduction to a series of lessons on the development of surgery (Bring your own saw!). |
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Explore the difficulties Lister must have had in using the carbolic spray and perhaps discover why he faced so much opposition. Activity by Ian Luff. |
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A timeline to develop a sense of duration |
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Making the Industrial Revolution human through family history |
How great-grandfather Seth opens up key features of the Industrial Revolution |
An outline idea for helping students understand how revolutionary the Industrial Revolution was |
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How did the Industrial Revolution change where people lived? |
The Population Revolution 1750-1901: Use the space in your classroom to map out the change from rural to urban life |
Who's got the answer to the problem? The story of the Industrial Revolution |
An overview activity introducing a wide range of developments from 1750-1900 – a positive view of the Industrial Revolution! |
