Below you will find web links, extra printables, and other resources to use along with the Modern History units in the Layers of Learning curriculum. Check out our Amazon store to see fun goodies we recommend to accompany this course.
Modern History is sold as a single volume and as individual units, which are like chapters within the Modern History book. Here’s a link to a free printable cover to accompany all of your Modern History PDF units.
Industrial Revolution
- Explore this page about Lewis Hine’s photographs of child labor in early 20th century America
- Read primary accounts about child labor in the factories of England
- Read I, Pencil an eye opening essay by Leonard Read about how making one pencil takes dozens of people across the globe
- Visit the Derby Silk Mill Museum of Making online to view a 1721 factory and the collection of inventions it houses
- Explore the way a n electron microscope works with this online simulator
- Khan Academy Unit on Industrialization