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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.

Blackstone Canal History: Informational Text Skill Development

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

How can close reading of an informational text help me explore and understand the history of the Blackstone Canal?

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.

Saugus Iron Works: Life and Work at an Early American Industrial Site

• 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.

Building America's Industrial Revolution: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts (Teaching with Historic Places)

• 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.

It Takes a Village

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will understand that the Blackstone River Valley experienced a unique form of rural industrialization called the “Rhode Island System of Manufacture” after Samuel Slater built the first textile mill in Pawtucket in 1790. Early mill villages, as typified by Ashton Village between 1810 and 1870, included essential components which led to their success and proliferation in rural towns along the Blackstone River Valley.

Immigration

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Immigration involves making the difficult decision to leave the homeland and adapt to a new life in a new location. What conditions influenced people to emigrate from their homeland in Quebec, and how were their lives changed by their relocation to Woonsocket, Rhode Island? Explain how people and communities weighed the benefits and costs of emigrating. Explain how new opportunities for work in the textile industry drew immigrants to settle in New England.

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.

Locke and Walnut Grove: Havens for Early Asian Immigrants in California

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

How did Chinese and Japanese immigrants develop California's industry and culture?

Springfield Armory National Historic Site

Role of Women at the Springfield Armory

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

During World War I and World War II, millions of women in the United States entered the workforce to keep industrial production going as male workers left to join the military. Students will analyze photographs and text of a newspaper article to gain a deeper understanding of the contributions of women, whose presence changed how females were viewed as workers. Initially underestimated in their capabilities, women proved to be an integral part of Armory production.