This lesson examines the issue of child labor during the Industrial Revolution in terms of working conditions, safety, and health.

This lesson examines public commentary on a law that sought to reduce the cost of looking after poor people by putting them in workhouses in exchange for food and clothing.

This inquiry-led lesson guides students through writing a newspaper article about a mining accident in Trimdon Grange, discussing its causes, its consequences, and the impact on life in the town and elsewhere.

This cooperative learning activity helps students examine the development of a small country in a time of transition, in this case the breakup of the Soviet Union, which coincided with a national disaster and a war. Using photographs, maps, and historical information, students will write diary accounts of a teenager's life in Armenia.

Students will use primary source materials: maps, literature, political cartoons, and drawings from newspapers in order to analyze the impact of industrialization in Europe and its change on society.

This resource explores the history of the British Caribbean through government documents, photographs, and maps dating from the 17th century to the 1920s.

This lesson plan seeks to have students understand the causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution on a global scale. The lesson asks them to analyze primary sources; photographs, cartoons, drawings, data, and periodicals. In the end, students should formulate opinions about the benefits and drawbacks of industrialization in different world regions.

Using the Eurasian frontier as a case study, this lesson will introduce students to the importance of disease transmission and containment in history - and their connection to world trade, military movements, population movements, and government social policies.

The purpose of this lesson is to analyze how globalization is affecting the financial socialization of young people in Morocco and the broader middle east, and reflect on how notions of "tradition", "modern", "need", and "want" affect consumer behavior in varying cultural contexts.

How do you make sense of contrasting accounts of historical events? What makes one source more reliable than another? How does corroborating information across sources help confirm or discredit historical accounts? In this lesson, students engage in such questions as they evaluate and compare different types of primary source documents with different perspectives on working conditions in English textile factories at the beginning of the 19th century.

This interactive feature from PBS allows students to navigate the variables of physical geography and how these simple elements have shaped the course of global history. For instance, natural impediments such as mountain ranges or bodies of water created isolated civilizations. He argued that continents which were easily traversible, such as Europe encouraged trade among different people and stimulated development.

This interactive feature from PBS allows students to navigate around the Earth via continents and climate zones. It also highlights the place where Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel started his quest, Papua New Guinea. See what each area has to offer in terms of location, vegetation, wildlife and climate. This is an easy way to see why some areas prospered and others were left behind, victims of the hand of cards they had been dealt.

In this activity, students will read a brief article and then answer a series of comprehension questions.

In this lesson, students will link what they already know about Aboriginal Australians to the new topic, identify basic and clear differences between modern society and Aboriginal living, and identify what they would like to learn more about Aboriginal Australians.

In this lesson, students learn about the Industrial Revolution in England and the transformation from the cottage industry to the factory industry. Students will compare and contrast the two systems and then relate what they have learned to industrialization and the factory system in America.

In this lesson, students will examine the changes in the South Korean economy since the end of the Korean War. Students will examine factors involved in economic development and will assess issues facing the Korean economy today.

In this activity, students will compare immigration statistics with the arrival of invasive species to understand how and why invasive plants came to America.

This lesson is designed to acquaint students with the major differences and similarities between the main forms of European and American Government prevalent during the first half of the nineteeth century, i.e., after the major revolutions of the previous century, and to familiarize students with the philosophical rationales undergirding each form of government, particularly the theoretical and practical relationship between the individual and the state.

This lesson examines Victorian prison policy through records, plans, and other original documents to provide a look at law and order and reformation in the 1800s.