CRC for Technology Education
Title III Technology Literacy Challenge Grant
Project Information Page
Child Labor
This project was developed as part of the Title III Technology Literacy Challenge Grant’s
Capital Region Collaboration for Technology Education.
2001-2002
Introduction
This is an interactive project that provides students with information on Child Labor Past and
Present and then asks them to react to that information.
Learners
This project is designed for use by Middle School Social Studies students.
Resources
Students will need a computer with internet access to follow the links included in the project. A
printer is necessary for printing out answers to a worksheet. Pencil and paper is required for
solving word problems.
Standards
Math, Science and Technology
Standard 1: Analysis, Inquiry, and Design Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific
inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers, and develop
solutions.
Social Studies
Standard 1: History of the United States and New York Students will use a variety of
intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes,
developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.
Standard 2: World History Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their
understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history
and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.
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Title III Technology Literacy Challenge Grant
Standard 3: Geography Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their
understanding of the geography of the independent world in which we live-local, national, and
global-including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the earth's surface.
Standard 4: Economics Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their
understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and
associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in
the United states and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity
problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms.
Process
This project includes a variety of activities that students will take part in: Child Labor Quiz on
the internet; Word problems that relate to Child Labor Wages
Evaluation
Students will be evaluated on the accuracy of their responses.
Credits and References
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
Freedman, Lewis. Kids At Work: Lewis Hine And The Crusade Against Child Labor,.
Photographs by Lewis Hine. New York: Books Clarion. 1945
Parker, David L with Lee Engfer and Robert Conrow. Stolen Dreams. Minneapolis: Lerner Pub.
Comp. 1998.
Gourley, Catherine. Good Girl Work. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press. 1999
http://us.ilo.org/ilokidsnew/whatis.html
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/gallery/
http://us.ilo.org/ilokidsnew/day.html
http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/Industrial.html
http://teched.edtl.vt.edu/gcc/HTML/PrintingsPast/Newsboys.html
http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/hine.html
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
http://www.oneworld.org/guides/chld_labour/index.html
http://www.uniononline.com/html/labor_history.htm
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
http://us.ilo.org/ilokidsnew/wage.html
http://www.dol.gov/dol/ilab/public/media/reports/iclp/sweat5/chap2.htm
2001-2002