Blast furnace animation

• This interactive animation is a useful student resource for the Australian Curriculum: History content description in year 9 referring to technological innovations and other factors that influenced the industrialisation of Britain. Students learn about the importance of the discovery that iron could be made using coke, which led to a major expansion of iron production in Britain.
• This animation is a useful illustration of the mechanical workings of a blast furnace to smelt iron using coke. Students name all the parts of the blast furnace and the stages of the process.
• The resource is useful for the development of historical skills. Students process and synthesise information for use as evidence in a historical argument about the importance of the discovery of smelting iron using coke for the increase in industrialisation in Britain.

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