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- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students will create a timeline showing Rhode Island’s changes in transportation over time.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Historians use evidence to draw conclusions about the past. Sometimes, we are still left with uncertainty and there is a lot that we don’t know about this strike. How exactly did people find resolution in June 1824? Using primary source documents, students will piece together their own version of the story and engage in historical research.
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Conflicting Values: John Brown and Adin Ballou
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This lesson plan invites students to consider the conflicting views of leading abolitionists in the years leading to the Civil War. There is a special focus on Adin Ballou, a Practical Christian who advocated for non-resistance, and leaders who supported violent tactics.
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Manufacturing with Marbles at Ashton Mill
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students will learn about the fiberglass products manufactured at the Ashton Mill to improve everyday life.
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Peace Picnics and Community in Hopedale
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
In 1842, a group of like-minded individuals created a commune called Hopedale. Under the leadership of minister Adin Ballou, people came to Hopedale to live out their values, which included Christian non-resistance and abolition. In this lesson, students will read primary source accounts about anti-slavery meetings and celebrations independence in Hopedale, MA and consider how people use speeches and print to make persuasive arguments.
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Project ZAP! Blackstone River Cleanup
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students will analyze two primary sources to identify the causes and effects of the Zap the Blackstone rehabilitation project.
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
The Life of Captain Wilbur Kelly
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students will create a six word story based on the accomplishments of Wilbur Kelly.
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Learning about Mill Workers through Primary Sources
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students will examine primary resource documents of mill workers at the Lonsdale Company in 1942. Though these are injury reports, students can get a glimpse into who was working at the mills and what types of jobs they had. Students will compare primary sources to determine similarities and differences among this sample of mill workers.
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Looming and Learning: Threading the Past and Present
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How many clothes do you own? Are any of them handmade? Why don't people tend to hand make their clothing at home anymore? This lesson will investigate our complicated relationship with something as simple as thread. Old Slater Mill was the first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill in North America. This place transformed the relationship US citizens had with their clothing. This hands-on activity investigates how our relationship with clothing has changed over the past 230 years.
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
The Rhode Island System of Mill Villages
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students will learn about how mill villages (in particular Ashton Mill) became a huge part of Rhode Island and showed the way people balanced work and community. Students will then create an overview map of their neighborhood community, complete with a key / legend.
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Women and Children in the Mill Village
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students will learn about the role women and children played in the community at Mill Villages. They will analyze a series of photographs using the "I see… I think… I feel… I wonder…" literacy strategy.
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Alice (Hadfield) Timperley and Oral History
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students will gain insight into the life of Alice (Hadfield) Timperley by listening to her oral history. Then, students will think of someone important in their life to interview, come up with four questions to ask that person, and record their own oral history using FlipGrid.
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Culture and Community
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students will look at reasons why people immigrate and settle in new places and how that is oftentimes connected to the need for jobs. Students will choose an ethnic community whose members either came to work in and around Rhode Island mills (or a modern-day culture in their town) and create a poster honoring that community's impact using Adobe Spark (if looking for a digital option) or on a piece of paper (if looking for a hands-on option).
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How can sports and popular culture influence public opinion? Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball to changes hearts, minds, and American law.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson, students will learn about the campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment by the National Woman's Party beginning in 1923. They will evaluate a political cartoon to identify different perspectives on the ERA. Students will then respond to the argument presented in the cartoon. Finally, they will predict the possible effect of the ERA on society today.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Welcome to historic Arthurdale, West Virginia, a New Deal village built from the ground-up for coal miners and their families during the Great Depression.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Investigate the Spanish Shipwrecks
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Consider how simple, functional cabins, like those built by the Finns in Idaho, became symbols in American politics and folklore.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn how these remote passes in the mountains influenced the course of the westward expansion of the United States.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
What is a “total solar eclipse”? What historic place might you study to answer this question?