How do you make sense of contrasting accounts of historical events? What makes one source more reliable than another? How does corroborating information across sources help confirm or discredit historical accounts? In this lesson, students engage in such questions as they evaluate and compare different types of primary source documents with different perspectives on working ...

Born into poverty on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, England, Charles Dickens left school to work in a factory to support his family. His novels, most published in serial form, attracted a huge following making him one of the first international literary celebrities.

Die eidgenössische technische Hochschule Lausanne (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL) bietet eine Übersicht über die hauseigenen MOOCs, die in französischer Sprache stattfinden.

Are you thinking that school is boring and that it would be more fun to be out working? This is a chance for you to find out what it was like to have to work instead of having the chance to go to school. Analyze primary source documents about early factory labor (mill workers during 1840-1860) showing their hours of labor, ages of laborers, reasons for working, and working ...

In diesem Unterrichtsmodul befassen sich die Schülerinnen und Schüler im Rahmen des Themas „Industrie 4.0“ mit smarten Maschinen und smarten Unternehmen. Sie lernen die Machine-to-Machine-Communication (M2M) und Cyber-Physical-Systems (CPS) als Basis für Industrie 4.0 kennen.

In nur rund 40 Jahren hat es die Volksrepublik China geschafft, zur zweitgrößten Volkswirtschaft hinter den USA aufzusteigen. Das Perlflussdelta gilt heute als world factory. Was sind die Erfolgsfaktoren des Kapitalismus auf chinesische Art?