Task Four: Children and Working Conditions
A. Click on the link to answer the following: www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/victorian_children_at_work/
1. Why did poor children in Victorian England have to work?
2. At what age did children begin to work?
Click on the images in the photo gallery. Use the information to answer the following:
3. What kinds of jobs did children do? Why were children hired, rather than adults?
B. Click on the link to answer the following:
www.historylearningsite.co.uk/britain-1700-to-1900/industrial-revolution/children-in-the-industrial-revolution/
Read any three (3) of the primary sources. Use that information to respond to the questions.
4. What dangers did the child worker face? How many hours did the child work? What punishment did the child face if they did not work as well as their boss wanted?
5. What dangers did the child worker face? How many hours did the child work? What punishment did the child face if they did not work as well as their boss wanted?
6. What dangers did the child worker face? How many hours did the child work? What punishment did the child face if they did not work as well as their boss wanted?
C. Click on the link to answer the following:
http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html
The 1833 Factory Act made reforms in working conditions for children. Use the information in the article to answer the questions.
7. What changes were made in the amount of hours children under the age of 9 could work? Make an inference - how many hours a day could those children work prior to the reform?
8. What changes were made in the amount of hours children 9-13 could work? Make an inference - how many hours a day could those children work prior to the reform?
9. What changes were made in the amount of hours children 14-18 could work? Make an inference - how many hours a day could those children work prior to the reform?
10. How many hours a day were children required to attend school after the reform? Make an inference – what might have school requirements have been prior to the reform?
D. Click on the link to answer the following:
http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/victorians/poor/workingclass.html
Important! Scroll down to 'On the Streets'
11. What was a 'mudlark'? Why did they have that nickname?
12. What did mudlarks collect and sell?
13. How much money could they earn?
A. Click on the link to answer the following: www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/victorian_children_at_work/
1. Why did poor children in Victorian England have to work?
2. At what age did children begin to work?
Click on the images in the photo gallery. Use the information to answer the following:
3. What kinds of jobs did children do? Why were children hired, rather than adults?
B. Click on the link to answer the following:
www.historylearningsite.co.uk/britain-1700-to-1900/industrial-revolution/children-in-the-industrial-revolution/
Read any three (3) of the primary sources. Use that information to respond to the questions.
4. What dangers did the child worker face? How many hours did the child work? What punishment did the child face if they did not work as well as their boss wanted?
5. What dangers did the child worker face? How many hours did the child work? What punishment did the child face if they did not work as well as their boss wanted?
6. What dangers did the child worker face? How many hours did the child work? What punishment did the child face if they did not work as well as their boss wanted?
C. Click on the link to answer the following:
http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html
The 1833 Factory Act made reforms in working conditions for children. Use the information in the article to answer the questions.
7. What changes were made in the amount of hours children under the age of 9 could work? Make an inference - how many hours a day could those children work prior to the reform?
8. What changes were made in the amount of hours children 9-13 could work? Make an inference - how many hours a day could those children work prior to the reform?
9. What changes were made in the amount of hours children 14-18 could work? Make an inference - how many hours a day could those children work prior to the reform?
10. How many hours a day were children required to attend school after the reform? Make an inference – what might have school requirements have been prior to the reform?
D. Click on the link to answer the following:
http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/victorians/poor/workingclass.html
Important! Scroll down to 'On the Streets'
11. What was a 'mudlark'? Why did they have that nickname?
12. What did mudlarks collect and sell?
13. How much money could they earn?