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Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park
Paterson & American Industry
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Explore Paterson's role in the Industrial Revolution and discover how the natural world inspired a founding father, entrepreneurs, immigrants, poets and artists to build the nation's first industrial city and changed the world.
Lowell National Historical Park
Citizens Respond to an Industrial Crisis Virtual Field Trip
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
What are the rights and responsibilities of citizens when it comes to addressing a problem in their community? What civic tools do they have at their disposal and how can they apply them to bring about a solution? Students will investigate an incident of environmental pollution that impacts the health of the community and develop a strategy to address the issue through civic actions. Explore this distance learning program designed for 8th grade students.
Lowell National Historical Park
Do History and Science at the Tsongas Industrial History Center
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Science, History and many more field trip opportunities for your students at Lowell National Historical Park!
Catoctin Mountain Park
The Blacksmith in Society: Lesson 1- Economic Incentives for Industrial Development
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
After comparing incentives offered to an 18th century blacksmith with incentives offered to modern corporations, students will understand how economic strategies are used to encourage industrial and community growth.
Lowell National Historical Park
Mill Girls: Life and Work in an Industrial City Virtual Field Trip
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Follow the journey of a mill girl from her family farm in the New England countryside to her new job operating a loom in Lowell’s Boott Cotton Mills. Students will meet two mill girls during their virtual visit to the boardinghouse and weave room, learning about each girl's unique experience of life and work in a textile mill, and experience for themselves a bit of what it was like to work in the mills.
Keweenaw National Historical Park
Influence of War Post-Activity 2: Influence of War on Copper Industry
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to demonstrate the rise and fall of copper production and how it often coincides with times of conflict in the later years of mining.
Keweenaw National Historical Park
Commercial and Non-Industrial Occupations Pre-Visit Activity 1: Entrepreneurs
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to define entrepreneur and briefly describe the accomplishments of at least one entrepreneur.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Unearth the remains of colonial America's first fully integrated ironworks, and consider what reconstruction of the site reveals about daily life for some early European settlers.
Keweenaw National Historical Park
Commercial and Non-Industrial Occupations Post-Visit Activity 1: Discussion and Journaling
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to reflect upon their visit to the Calumet Visitor Center and name at least two observations about photography or entrepreneurs in the displays.
Keweenaw National Historical Park
Commercial and Non-Industrial Occupations Post-Visit Activity 3: Photograph Collection
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge on photographic documentation and composition by creating a booklet or storyboard.
Keweenaw National Historical Park
Commercial and Non-Industrial Occupations Post-Visit 2: Research Careers of Entrepreneurs
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to describe at least one entrepreneur or businessman/woman from the local area in the 19th and 20th century.
Keweenaw National Historical Park
Commercial and Non-Industrial Occupations Pre-Visit Activity 3: Picture Taking
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will demonstrate an understanding of photography techniques by practicing using a school-owned or personal camera and printing at least one picture.
Keweenaw National Historical Park
Commercial and Non-Industrial Occupations Pre-Visit Activity 2: Non-Mining Jobs
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to name and define at least one non-mining job.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about the Boott Cotton Mills complex in Massachusetts, which contains mills built from the mid-1830s to the early 20th century.
Lowell National Historical Park
"The World of Barilla Taylor" Traveling Trunk
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
By examining documents relevant to Barilla's farm and factory experiences, students learn about the history of early industrial America, and the ways industrialization affected the roles and status of women.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How did Chinese and Japanese immigrants develop California's industry and culture?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The lesson could be used in U.S. history, social studies, and geography courses in units on nineteenth century and early twentieth century commerce or transportation, and to help students understand the role that maritime industries played in American history. The lesson could also be used to enhance studies related to the industrial revolution and women’s history.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Before the Industrial Revolution, craftsmen made most tools, furniture, and other goods by hand. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the job of creating an object was broken down into many steps, each of which was done by a different person. The advantage is that single tasks could be done over and over, faster than when one person did everything start to finish
Everglades National Park
"What's that Slippery Mess?" Water: 4-6 Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The student will be able to: a) show ways oil spills can affect wildlife adversely, and b) point out possible negative consequences to wildlife, people, and the environment from human-caused pollutants and/or industry.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The lesson can be used in teaching units on late 19th-century urban expansion, especially as influenced by immigration and the Industrial Revolution. It also could form the core of an interdisciplinary unit when used in conjunction with lessons on the Romantic and Transcendentalist movements and lessons on botany.