Project Nellie Bly

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Carolus Clusius College 

'n Wereldschool

Geography

History

English

Biology

Math

Physical Education

Visual Arts

Wereldburgerschap

French

Dutch

German

Religious education 

Industrial Revolution

1750-1850

A major turning point in world history

Why many people didn't believe Phileas Fogg could travel the globe in 80 days?

Phileas Fogg

A time without a schedule 

It was never done before 

Difficult parts of the world such as Colonial India

Trains and steamships weren't trust worthy 

For what reason the book of Jules Verne became so popular among readers?

But what kind of world did Phileas Fogg live in?

We start with some research

Find out in pairs:

- What caused the European Industrial Revolution (IR)?

paragraph - 5.1 

 - What is urbanisation and why is it a consquence of the IR?

- What is imperialism and why is is een consequence of the IR?

- What new inventions were made during the IR?

- What caused the European Industrial Revolution (IR)?

industrial revolution 

A lot of manual labour in that time (1900) was replaced with machines and a lot of people worked in factories. 

Spinning Jenny

Cotton Gin

- What is urbanisation and why is it a consquence of the IR?

Urbanisation

Mechanisation

From city to urban area

A process of urbanisation and suburbanisation

- What is imperialism and why is this a consequence of the IR?

Imperialism 

Cambridge: a system in which a country rules other countries, sometimes having used force to get power over them. 

Britannica: Between the 15th century and the middle of the 18th, England, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain built empires in the Americas, India, and the East Indies. 

Example of consequence IR 

Cotton Plantage 

harvest by enslaved people

more production of clothes more cotton equals 

more factory's 

The British Empire and the Industrial Revolution

- What new inventions were made during the IR?

Modernisation

Industrial revolution > modernisation > led to many new inventions 

What would you need to travel the world in the end of the 19th century?

What would you need to travel the world in the end of the 19th century (being a women)?

Elisabeth Cochrane

Elizabeth Cochran in May 1864 in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Dreamed of being a writer for a newspaper.

Travel the globe

Nellie Bly would try to travel the world in 80 days with the help of all new inventions around the year 1889!

Example TTO/ HV