Oliver, Week of January 23. 2012

DIRECTIONS:

Go to the following link;

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/what_life_was_like_in_London_in_1830's

Go to the following link;

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workhouse

Read the articles

Make notes about life during the time

What it was like to live in a workhouse

How people including children were treated

What steps were made to improve the conditions

Oliver, Week of February 6, 2012

DIRECTIONS:

Go to the following link;

http://www.connerprairie.org/Learn-And-Do/Indiana-History/America-1800-1860/Clothing-of-the-1830's.aspx

Find out what the clothes were made from

How and where the clothes were made

How the clothes of the rich and poor differed

Go to Google: Images of 1830's fashion

print out images of clothes from the period

Oliver, Week of February 13, 2012

DIRECTIONS:

Go to the following link;

http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health10.html

Find out information about the living conditions

Find out information about diseases.

Discuss what the disease did to people

Find out information about how they tried to fight disease and poor living conditions

Oliver. Week of Febaruary 20, 2012

Go to the following link;

http://www.newspaperarchive.com

Go to the year 1830

You can pick a newpaper from London

The site will let you look at only 3 articles/papers without buying a membership

Read what you can see and get an idea of what life was like during that time period.

Oliver, Week of February 27, 2012

Go to the following link;

http://www.foodtimeline.org

Use a piece of notebook paper to write down dates in the margin.

Write food that was discovered/created in each year

Write the country that the food came from by each food

You can make a legend at the bottom of the page to make it easier.

Put a star (*) by each food that you have personally eaten