This lesson plan introduces 4th grade students to child labor during the Industrial Revolution. Students will learn about the hardships faced by child laborers through primary source documents and images. They will internalize what it was like to be a child worker and compare it to their own lives today. As an application activity, students will write a journal entry answering how the life of a child laborer is the same or different from their own life based on the sources provided. The lesson allows for differentiation based on student needs.