Curriculum Materials

Order or Download Curriculum Packets

We recommend downloading the Overview Guide (pdf) and an Activity Guide for classroom use.

Each of these guides is a PDF (Portable Document Format) and can be opened with Adobe Acrobat Reader.

The Early Industrial Revolution: An Overview (pdf) - contains a brief, easy-to-read history and a helpful bibliography of other books to use in your classroom.

Program-Specific Activity Guides - include pre- and post-visit activities to use in your classroom. Many activities use everyday household items to create engaging, historical lessons. Most of our activity guides are available online for downloading.

To read descriptions of these programs, please visit the Educational Programs page.

On-Site Programs 

• Yankees and Immigrants (152kb pdf)
• Bale to Bolt (134kb pdf)
• Power to Production (662kb pdf)
• Invention Factories (137kb pdf)
• Workers on the Line (165kb pdf)
• RiverWorks (176kb pdf)
• River as a Classroom (194kb pdf)
• Change in the Making (updated 9/04) (221kb pdf)
• Industrial Watershed (323kb pdf)
• Classroom by the Concord (540kb pdf)

In-School Programs 

• Voices of Change (258kb pdf)
• Immigration (930kb pdf)
• Farm to Factory (148kb pdf)
• River of Death (160 kb pdf)

Please note: Our historic photos (previously mailed with each Curriculum Packet), are not available online, but are for sale through Eastern National Bookstore. Call 978-970-5015 to order.

If you have any trouble downloading our packets, please email  Ellen_Anstey@uml.edu for help.

To order the Overview Guide and the Activity Guides (Cost: $5.00)
Download and print out the form (doc) and mail with your payment to:

Tsongas Industrial History Center
Attn: Curriculum Orders
115 John Street
Lowell, MA 01852