Wow man, this has actually opened my eyes quite a bit. Although I've taught for a few years now, the 2018 academic year is my first year teaching History (which I love btw). I struggled to get my learners interested in the Industrial Revolution, despite my best attempts.

Ironically, our next topic is 'The Scramble for Africa" and I am going to employ this method from the get go to see how they respond. If all goes well I'll be able to draw all of it back to the Industrial Revolution and, unbeknownst to them, try and reframe our first term's work in a more interesting light.

Thanks for this post.