Society and the Industrial Age
Teacher Resources
Lesson Guide
This lesson includes claim testing, contextualization, and CCOT activities. This guide has everything you’ll need to teach these materials.
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Help students understand both the negative and positive impacts of industrialization with this deep dive into London’s polluted river and the “Great Sanitary Awakening.”
Driving Question: How did industrialization reshape social hierarchies and impact standards of living?
As industrialization spread, employers needed more workers, leading many women and children to join the workforce. Working-class women faced harsh working conditions and were also often left out of public and political life. Over time, growing ideas about gender equality helped spark women’s rights movements. These movements used activism and global connections to fight for voting rights and other important reforms.
Learning Objectives
- Explain how industrialization caused a change in existing social hierarchies and standards of living.
- Use the historical thinking practice of claim testing to comprehend the transformation of gender and class relations in the long nineteenth century.
Be sure to reference the Lesson Guide for helpful information about how to teach this activity. There, you’ll find links to download the Game Narratives and Template. You’ll also need large sheets of paper and black markers.
Short on time and looking for a way to adapt the Urbanization Game? Check out this community post for a helpful redesign that includes slides, a key, and other materials. Or head to this community post for a narrated video with sound effects to help create that hurry-up-and-draw feeling in your classroom.
Explore how industrialization impacts where people move and what the physical environment looks like—part of a process called urbanization.
The divide between rich and poor grew exponentially during industrialization. But what led to this huge chasm?
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Guiding Questions
You’ve made plenty of claims in this course. Now, take claim testing a step further and get ready to defend, analyze, or deny some claims!
The idea of gender changed radically during the nineteenth century. How was the idea of what a man or a woman was influenced by empire, nationalism, and industrialism?
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Guiding Questions
Looking for the Contextualization Event Cards that students sort into broad and narrow context? Head to the Lesson Guide.
Remember that you can quickly assess students’ contextualization skills with the Contextualization Feedback Form.
What it means to be a kid now is radically different than what it meant to be a kid during the nineteenth century. Using the materials below, practice contextualization by examining child labor and changing attitudes towards childhood.
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Guiding Questions
Need tips on teaching CCOT, including how to use the CCOT Feedback Form to formatively assess your students’ skills? Check out the CCOT One-Pager.
The more things change, the more they stay the same—or do they? You decide by looking at changes and continuities in Unit 5.
Want to help students reinforce the AP themes before completing this closer activity? In this community conversation, an AP teacher shares a drag and drop review students can use to up their themes skills.
Remind students to look back on their answers from the first Themes Notebook activity in this unit to see how their thinking changed as they learned more about the political revolutions and Industrial Revolution.
Do you see any patterns in this unit? It’s time to identify them with the Themes Notebook.