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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

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.

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.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Field Trip: The Villages

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Learn about the life of the Hidatsa tribe that lived in the villages at Knife River Indian Villages NHS. The park ranger will guide students through interactive presentations in the museum, the earth lodge, and in the village (on the trail). Program also includes the 15 minute introductory park film.

Knife River: Early Village Life on the Plains

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

Have students describe the life of the Hidatsa and Mandan groups in the early 19th century and explain how the villagers shaped their environment and adapted to it; and discover American Indian groups who once lived in their region and compare their cultures to the Hidatsa and Mandan peoples.

Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument

Gran Quivira: A Blending of Cultures in a Pueblo Indian Village

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

The quiet remnants of the village of Las Humanas, now called Gran Quivira, only hint at the vibrant society that thrived here until the late 17th century. Today it is one of three sites that make up Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.

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.

Death Valley National Park

Mining Unit: Discovering a Stamp Mill

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This lesson is part of a cross-curricular mining unit focused on the impacts of miners on the Death Valley community and environment. This is the introductory lesson which provides students journal writing opportunities to explore their meaning of discovery. Students will watch a short online video on mining in Death Valley and actively sequence the steps of a typical stamp mill.

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.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Great Smoky Mountains - Mingus Mill History and Culture

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

The Great Smoky Mountains are world renowned for their diversity of plant and animal species. Mingus Mill, located in the Oconaluftee Valley, provides a beautiful spot where students are introduced to daily life routines of the 19th century. Through games, activities, a peek inside the operating mill, and a short hike students are encouraged to compare and contrast the communities of early settlers to their own.

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.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Samuel Slater: American Hero or English Traitor

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

Samuel Slater is regarded as a traitor in his hometown of Belper, England. In the United States, Slater has been hailed as a hero (to some) and as the “father of American industry.” This lesson plan serves as an accompaniment to episode one of the documentary series called Slatersville: America’s First Mill Village.

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.

Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park

The "Five Civilized Tribes"

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

village of the Mississippian culture ancestors of the Five Civilized Tribes

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

The People: Pre-1845

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This background reading material explores the history of the Three Affiliated Tribes from Pre-1845. It covers the Early Villages, Sacagawea, and other people of historic significance who visited the region and villages for exploration and trade.

Arthurdale: A New Deal Community Experiment

• 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.

Tumacácori National Historical Park

The O'odham

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will read short articles and then participate in simulated O'odham cultural activities to include an O’odham language lesson and role-playing various daily tasks such as food preparation, games, weaving and pot making. Students will place a fictional O'odham village along a Santa Cruz River map while using their knowledge of cultural needs and climate restrictions. They will describe the advantages of their chosen site and draw a sketch of their village

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Field Trip: Discover Archeology

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Learn the basics of archeology. A park ranger and archeologist will discuss what a career in archeology looks like. Students can interact with basic tools of the trade and some artifacts found in the villages.

Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park

Kaloko Loko I'a (Fishpond) Curriculum

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

Kaloko-Honokōhau is a wahi kūpuna (ancestral place) that is deeply loved and cherished by the kamaʻāina (natives) of Kona. Remembered today for the fishing village that existed along the coast, these reminders of the ancestors remain. Remnants of the fishing village includes kahua (ancient house site platforms), heiau (religious sites), loko iʻa (fishponds), holua (toboggan slide), kiʻi pōhaku (petroglyphs), papamū (kokane game boards), ahu (altar), and ala hele(trails).

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).