• The Tsongas Center is a hands-on history center where students learn about the American Industrial Revolution through hands-on activities and by experiencing history where it happened. Students "do history" by weaving, creating canal systems and testing water wheels, working on an assembly line, role-playing immigrants, or becoming inventors. In investigating industrial history, students can also "do science," testing river or canal water quality, tracing the flow of groundwater pollution, or discovering river cleanup techniques.
  
  
• The Tsongas Center is a professional development provider, offering teachers exciting workshops and great primary-source-based teaching activities. Teachers can earn professional development points and, in some cases, graduate credit for their work at the Center.
  
  
• The Tsongas Center is a partnership between the University of Massachusetts Lowell Graduate School of Education and Lowell National Historical Park, who each provide a portion of the funding and staff to operate the Center.

Funding support is provided, in part, by the
Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Institute for Museum and
Library Services.