Exhibits, Exhibits, and some more Exhibits

To the left is an image of my group's museum exhibit that we made on the topic of child labor.
Close ups are provided at the  bottom of this post.


To continue our unit on the Industrial revolution, the people in our class were given artifacts that correspond with certain topics. Our artifacts were the pictures, writing pieces, and table. I was actually absent for the first day of this project and missed most of the analyzing the documents, but when I returned to school, my group really helped me understand how they did the analyzing and showed me how they related to the documents. They were really good at catching me up to speed. After checking over our notes, we began drafting the poster which was hard because everyone had different ideas on what they wanted the poster to look like. Eventually, we all decided that the background was going to be black and we were going to put brown boarders and chains on the poster to represent the dark emotions connected with this topic and the actual chains that children pulled things from in their labor. We just really wanted to show people how awful child labor was at the time of the industrial revolution. Kids were forced to pull such heavy things on their backs, crawl in tiny places, and work in dangerous mills. After our exhibit was all finished and put up, we checked out our classmates.


The group that had transportation as their topic did a nice job of using bright colors to show that there wasn't really that many negative things to say about it. Trains and boats were able to get people farther away faster, import and export goods, etc.


I also learned from the standard of living and economics exhibit that during the industrial revolution, pollution was more of a problem than it had ever been before in the past. Something else I learned was that from the 18th century and into the 19th century, the cost of living was getting higher and higher and the earnings of people were staying the same.


From another exhibit I found out that before the industrial revolution, families each had their own loom and it was very valuable to them. As factories and mills became more common, the valuable looms in each family just weren't cutting it out anymore, so the families would be forced to move into the city and work in a mill.


The last exhibit I visited was all about slavery. and the group set it up in a very creative way. They had a wagon wheel that you could actually spin in order to read what they had on their poster and I thought it was an interesting way to get the information across.


All in all this project allowed us to be creative and still learn a lot of important information. My close ups are below.