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Download full textRuth, Amy, Ed. – Goldfinch, 1996
This theme issue of "The Goldfinch" presents the story of Iowans at work beginning with the Ioway Indians before 1830 through the Great Depression of the 1930s. One article looks at how children worked to help their families buy food and clothing. Organized labor helped all workers in Iowa by providing better working conditions. Women in…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Elementary Education, Family History, Local History
Moore, Darla – 2000
This eighth grade lesson plan asks students to research and analyze primary source documents about early factory labor (mill workers during the period between 1840-1860) showing their hours of labor, ages of laborers, reasons for working, and working conditions. The lesson plan asks students to read a historical novel about the time,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Child Labor, Grade 8, Information Literacy
Suter, Coral; Croddy, Marshall – 1985
This student booklet is part of a curriculum designed for infusion into secondary U.S. history courses to help students explore the purposes of American law. The booklet contains student readings and discussion questions and suggests learning activities. There are five units. Unit 1, "Law in a New World," examines processes used to make…
Descriptors: American Indians, Child Labor, Citizenship Education, Civil Liberties
