Students are immersed in primary source materials that relate to child labor in America from 1880-1920 to gain a personal perspective of how work affected the American child within a rapidly growing industrial society. This project is student-driven. Students engage in visual and information literacy exercises to gain expertise in analyzing historical data. Most importantly, students emerge from this experience with a very personal sense that children significantly and heroically affected the building of America.
- gain expertise in analyzing historical data through exercises in visual and information literacy; and
- gain a personal perspective on work in an emerging industrial society and its effect on the American child.
- One semester
Recommended Grade Level
- Science, Technology & Business
- City & Regional History
- Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
Martha Williams & Kelly Killen