Key questions
Topic: Science
Questions to consider:
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What
machinery was created?
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How
science changed way of life?
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What
effects science had on the environment?
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Was
there any war machinery created?
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How
much did science change Britain?
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Did
Science make Britain wealthier or poorer?
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Was
it sudden or gradual (change)?
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How
did science change transportation?
Sub questions
Who benefitted from
the industrial revolution?
How did the
industrial revolution change the environment?
How did the
industrial revolution change ways of transport and trading?
Research question: How did science
change Britain and what were the most significant changes?
Primary
Source:
Victorian
technology bbc
Origin: Victorian
technology is an article written by Paul
Atterbury. It was published in 2011 in the United States.
Value: the article talks about
trading in Britain and how it changed. It talks about how trading in britian
affected other countries and how trading changed.
Purpose: Inform readers about the
changes in British technology as a result of the industrial revolution.
Limitations: doesn’t tell us how
science changed way of life. Or was the change fast or slow and it does not
tell us how science changed the environment.
Victorian web technology and leisure
Origin: Technology and Leisure in Britain after 1850 is an article that was written in 1996 by Stephen Hall Clark in the University of Sunderland.
Value: talks
about how Technology changed leisure in
Victorian times in Britain. It talks about new technology like the steam press
and how it affected other people and it also talks about sea side resorts.
Purpose:
is to inform people how technology was in Britain
in 1850
Limitations:
it does not tell us how it affected the
environment or was there any war machinery created or did these changes make
britian wealthier or poorer.