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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.

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.

Kings Mountain National Military Park

Women in the American Revolution

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

Women had an important role in the Revolution. Complete this student activity to learn more.

Kings Mountain National Military Park

Loyalists in American Revolution

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

John Adams wrote that approximately one-third of the American population supported the move for independence (Patriots), one-third of the population supported the king (Loyalists), and one-third supported neither side (neutral).

Ninety Six National Historic Site

American Revolution Soldier

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The American Revolution Soldier trunk is designed to enrich your students' studies of the American Revolution and its causes.

Kings Mountain National Military Park

African Americans in the American Revolution

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

*What were duties and responsibilities of African-American soldiers in the American Revolution? *How did African Americans make significant contributions during the American Revolution?

Barrett Farm and the Start of the American Revolution

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

April 19, 1775 is undoubtedly one of the most important days in American history, but how do we know what happened that day nearly two hundred and fifty years ago? Historians use primary sources as a clue to determine what happened in the past. Many of the events leading up to and on April 19, 1775 in Concord relate to town resident Colonel James Barrett. Using primary sources your students will become historians and answer the question, “What was Colonel James Barrett’s role on April 19, 1775?

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

Waterpower: Powering a Revolution Virtual Field Trip

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Explore how Lowell's many integrated systems, including waterwheels and turbines, transformed the potential energy of the Merrimack River into kinetic energy that ran the machines. Through a series of investigations led by one of our educators, students generate hypotheses and analyze data to determine the most efficient ways to distribute energy to all the mills' machines.

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.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

How did different people shape the American Revolution?

• Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students examine two primary source documents connected to Salem merchant, Richard Derby and consider how white colonists and enslaved Africans experienced the ideals of the American Revolution.

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.