The Dawn of the Industrial Revolution (1760 – 1840)
Website: BBC Bitesize – The Industrial Revolution
Website: Ducksters – Industrial Revolution
Video: “Industrial Revolution for Kids “(Homeschool Pop)
Book: “The Industrial Revolution for Kids” by Cheryl Mullenbach

The Rotary Steam Engine (1788)
Video:”James Watt and the Steam Engine” (Khan Academy)
Interactive: How a Steam Engine Works (BBC Bitesize)
Primary Source: James Watt’s Patent Drawings
Book: “The Most Powerful Idea in the World”

The British Raj (1757 – 1947)
Video: “East India Company and British Rule in India” (BBC Teach)
Primary Source: Hind Swaraj by Mahatma Gandhi
Documentary: “The Story of India” (BBC)
Book: “Inglorious Empire” by Shashi Tharoor

The Haitian Revolution (1791 – 1804)
Video: “The Haitian Revolution Explained” (BBC Teach)
Primary Source: Haitian Declaration of Independence (1804)
Interactive Map: Revolutions in the Atlantic World
Book: “Avengers of the New World” by Laurent Dubois

Coal Use Soars (1825) 
Video: “Crash Course Kids – Energy and the Industrial Revolution”
Article:”How Coal Changed the World–and Our Climate”
Map: Coalfields of Britain (National Coal Mining Museum UK)
Book: “The Industrial Revolution for Kids” by Cheryl Mullenbach

Forced Assimilation and Removal (1819 – 1968)
Video: “We Shall Remain: Trail of Tears” (PBS, American Experience)
Interactive Map: “Trail of Tears National Historic Trail” (U.S. National Park Service)
Primary Source: Cherokee Nation Petition to Congress, 1836
Podcast: “Residential Schools: Truth and Reconciliation” (CBC)
Book: “When We Were Alone” by David A. Robertson (children’s story about residential schools)

The Greenhouse Effect Discovered (1856)
Video: “The Woman Who Discovered Climate Change: Eunice Foote” (PBS/NOVA, 6 min)
Interactive Simulation: “The Greenhouse Effect” (PhET, University of Colorado Boulder)
Primary Source: Eunice Foote’s paper “Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun’s Rays” (1856, American Journal of Science)
Website: NASA Climate Kids – The Greenhouse Effect Explained
Book: “The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here” by Hope Jahren

The Theory of Evolution (1859)
Video: “Darwin and the Tree of Life” (BBC, narrated by David Attenborough)
Interactive: “Darwin’s Voyage on the Beagle” (Natural History Museum, UK)
Primary Source: Excerpts from On the Origin of Species (1859)
Website: Understanding Evolution – University of California, Berkeley
Book: “Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith “by Deborah Heiligman (Young Readers edition)

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