Child Labor - #29
Trunk #29
Supplies for assembly line activity:
- Plastic tub of beads
- Plastic tub of price tags
- Plastic tub of colored plastic strips
- 12 small butter tubs
- 3 larger plastic trays
Miscellaneous:
- Wooden loom with red yarn
- Coal in plastic jar
- Five doilies
- Eight Two cotton bolls from Lowell National historic park seashells
- Weave room sampler of 4 pieces of cloth from Lowell National Historic Park
- Two cotton balls from Lowell National Historical Park
- Five wooden bobbins
- VCR tape of “America & Lewis Hine”
- Nine laminated photos
- 27 Lewis Hine photographs on tagboard
“Child Labor Then and Now” unit plan notebook
- Lesson One: Introduction to Child Labor
- Lesson Two: Through the Lens of Lewis Hine
- Lesson Three: Child Labor Today
Books:
- Growing Up in Coal Country by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- The Bobbin Girl by Emily Arnold McCully
- Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade against Child Labor by Russell Freedman
- Kids on Strike! Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle
- Places in Time: A New Atlas of American History – Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley
- Five issues of “the Youth’s Companion” (1891and 1899)
- Junior Ranger Gazette Volume 3 summer 2008
- Lowell Offering – official newspaper of Lowell National Historical Park
- “The Ten-Hour Movement- Women and the Early Labor Movement” –teachers guide
Other primary sources:
- Consumers League of New York brochure on White List of candy factories
- Illinois child labor law- draft 1903
- Three Little Blue Books by E. Haldeman-Julius
- Yellow Unit Notebook with lessons on “Socialism in America”
- 25 laminated photos of early 20th century life
- “Examining Child Labor through Children’s Literature and Primary Source Documents”
- Class handouts:
- “Where was my shirt made?”
- Lewis Hines’ photographs Venn diagram
- 2 sets of photos
- Country of origin bar graph