Industrial Revolution + Massachusetts

Online Resources

The sites below include information about the Lowell Mills and our field trip as well as background information. There are also some links to websites about Massachusetts. Enjoy!! Feel free to email

me others you find, and I will include them in our list.

Lowell Mills related websites:

Slideshow of our field trip "Change in the Making": https://www.uml.edu/Tsongas/Education-Programs/Field-Trips/Change-in-the-Making.aspx

Decide Eliza Paige's Future: https://www.uml.edu/tsongas/bringing-history-home/page_00/index.htm

Food at the Mills: http://www.mylearning.org/everyday-life-in-the-industrial-revolution/p-2355/

Mill Girls: http://www.lowell.com/lowell-mill-girls/

Mill Girl, Harriet Robinson: http://courses.wcupa.edu/johnson/robinson.html

Early Factory Girls: http://courses.wcupa.edu/johnson/robinson.html

Life at the Mills: https://www.nps.gov/lowe/planyourvisit/upload/mill%20girls.pdf

More life at the Mills: http://www.umbc.edu/che/tahlessons/pdf/Methods_of_Reform_The_Lowell_Mill_Girls_RS_3.pdf

More Life at the Mills and other Mill sites: http://library.uml.edu/clh/mo.htm

Boarding House Life: http://milltimes.weebly.com/boardinghouse-living.html

Industrial Revolution: Critical explorers: http://www.criticalexplorers.org

GET TO KNOW YOUR STATE!

1.) MA maps: counties, roads, rivers and lakes, state elevation, etc.

http://geology.com/state-map/massachusetts.shtml

2.) Outline map of MA

http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxusma.htm

3.) Outline maps and other topical maps of MA (even some fun games)

http://www.netstate.com/states/maps/ma_maps.htm

4.) The Commonwealth of MA information: Take the STATE QUIZ link on the left!!

http://www.netstate.com/states/intro/ma_intro.htm

5.) MA symbols, maps, state bird, flower, etc.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/massachusetts/

6.) Famous people from Massachusetts

http://www.thingstodo.com/states/MA/famous_people.htm

7.) MA facts and trivia

http://www.50states.com/facts/mass.htm

8.) The World Almanac for Kids: Massachusetts focus

http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/WAKI-ViewArticle.aspx?pin=wwwwak-396&article_id=759&chapter_id=15&chapter_title=United_States&article_title=Massachusetts

9.) MA facts: 10 largest cities, etc.

http://www.spellingcity.com/massachusetts-schools.html