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Lesson Plan
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities

Chapter 11 Teacher Guide and Student Log

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
As part of their study of the subject of child labor and child abuse introduced by Francesco D’Adamo’s novel, Iqbal, class members examine two extended reading passages about individuals who champion the rights of kids.
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Lesson Plan
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities

Chapter 8 Teacher Guide and Student Log

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Designed to improve the reading comprehension of learners with special needs, this packet of intervention materials is intended to be used with the eighth chapter of Iqbal, Francesco D’Adamo’s novel about child labor.
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Lesson Plan
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities

Chapter 7 Teacher Guide and Student Log

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Chapter 7 of Francesco D’Adamo’s, Iqbal, a novel about child labor, is the core text in a packet designed as intervention materials for the special education classroom but appropriate for any reader of this gripping tale.
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Lesson Plan
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities

Chapter 6 Teacher Guide and Student Log

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Is work that is safe for adults also safe for children? That is the question class members consider as they continue their reading of Francesco D’Adamo’s, Iqbal, a novel about child labor. Following the routines established in previous...
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Lesson Plan
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities

Chapter 9 Teacher Guide and Student Log

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Iqbal, Francesco D’Adamo’s historical novel about child labor, is the core text for a series of resources that investigate the conditions under which many children are forced to work. Kids read and answer comprehension questions about...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Early Industrialization

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders analyze primary source documents emphasizing young people in factory labor (mill workers during 1840-1860). They study hours of labor, ages of laborers, reasons for working, and working conditions. They write a poem or song.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shattered Youth

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Young scholars examine the state of child labor in the world. In this global economy lesson, students consider the implications of child labor in the world as they research its prevalence.
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Lesson Plan
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities

Chapter 3 Teacher Guide and Student Log

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Intended to be used with the third chapter of Francesco D’Adamo’s historical novel, Iqbal this packet of intervention materials is designed to improve the reading comprehension of learners with special needs; however, the strategies are...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Children in the Fields: The Life of the Hispanic Child Laborer During California's Agriculture Explosion

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the agriculture explosion in California in the late 1800's to the early 1930's. They analyze primary source material putting themselves into the shoes of a child laborer. They also gain an understanding of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Children's Rights/Child Labor -- A Photographic Essay

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students continue to examine the conditions students work in throughout the world. Using photographs, they discover the similarities and differences in regions throughout the world. They relate their own experiences to the child laborers.
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Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - Iqbal Masih, Child Activist

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about child activist Iqbal Masih. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Child Labor Slide Show

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars review ideas shared about the American worker while reading poems of Carl Sandburg. They now view a slide show of what they looked like. While students view the slide show, the teacher goes over information. A link is...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Badges of Pride

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate jobs and how people identify with their job.  In this labor lesson, 5th graders create a book from illustrations of various jobs. Students read an article about labor and answer questions about the article....
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Lesson Plan
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities

Chapter 4 Teacher Guide and Student Log

For Teachers 6th - 8th
As part of their reading of Francesco D'Adamo's Iqbal, class members are introduced to the Frayer Model of vocabulary study. Using the provided Frayer Model graphic organizer, kids fill in a word, provide a definition, characteristics,...
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Lesson Plan
California Department of Education

Safe at Work

For Teachers 8th Standards
From minimum wage to minimizing injuries, young workers need to know their rights! The sixth and final lesson in a series of college and career readiness activities gets eighth graders thinking about safety and labor laws. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Day in the Life of an Employed Child

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders compare/contrast their lives with those of children who work. They develop a generic daily schedule of their activities, compare it with the daily schedule of a child that is employed, and answer discussion questions.
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Lesson Plan
Center for History Education

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Is Anyone to be Punished for This?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The stories of bodies falling to the pavement and girls dying in their seats echo to the present day. The New York City Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire—which killed 147 people, mostly young women and girls—galvanized the labor movement...
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Lesson Plan
National Woman's History Museum

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
On March 25, 1911, 146 garment workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Class members use primary source documents to research the tragedy and how it lead to the creation of labor unions and new labor laws. As an exit...
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Lesson Plan
Curriculum Development Institute

Life in the Age of Machines

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
What was life like during the Industrial Revolution? Using a variety of activities, including writing out the dreams of laborers, industrialists, and urban dwellers, learners consider the positive and negative impacts of the Age of...
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PPT
Curated OER

What Were Social Effects of the Industrial Revolution?

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Attempting to address Standard 10.3 (the effects of the Industrial Revolution), this presentation falls short and isn't a helpful resource. It contains some good information about the emergence of a middle class during this time, but...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Children's Rights/Child Labor - Photos & Posters as Instruments of Change

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the use of students for labor around the globe. Using magazine pictures, they create a poster showing the various conditions they are subject to. They compare and contrast the differences in regions and evaluate the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Suffer the Little Children

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore, examine and study about and respond to the issues of child labor workers in Guatemala by reading and discussing the article, "Bush to Press Free Trade in a Place Where Young Children Still Cut the Cane." They write an...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Understanding the Nature of Work

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students analyze case studies of child labor situations and differentiate between developmental labor which can benefit children and exploitative labor which can harm children. Then they look closer at forms of exploitative labor to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Debt Slavery and Children in Pakistan, A Case Study

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers describe extent of Pakistan child slavery problem as international community sees it, and determine whether national sovereignty is valid answer to not allowing international agencies to monitor or remedy the problems....

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