Virtual Field Trips
Virtual Field Trips (VFTs) provide students with an in-depth look at a topic related to the Industrial Revolution. Our professional educators facilitate virtual interactions that offer all the energy and engagement of TIHC’s in-person programs. VFTs can be conducted in a classroom (all students in one classroom on one projecting device), home (students at home on individual devices), or classroom and home simultaneously. VFTs use a passcode-protected Zoom account. Programs are approximately 45 minutes long, limited to 25 students each, and align with state and national social studies and/or science standards.
Cost: the cost is $125.00 per program.
Call us at 978-970-5080 to reserve your program date and time.
| Title & Link | Program Description | Grade Level
(Relevant to state framework) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Girls: Life and Work in an Industrial City | Meet two mill girls and learn about their experiences of life and work in a textile factory. Students develop a sense of what work in Lowell's actories was like by engaging in simulated, kinesthetic work activity. | Massachusetts Grade 5
Other states Grades 4 or 6 | |
| Immigration, Culture, and Community | Investigate primary sources, oral histories, and objects to learn about real people who immigrated to Lowell during the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. | Massachusetts Grade 4
Other states Grades 5 or 6 | |
| Waterpower: Powering a Revolution | Generate hypotheses and analyze data to determine the most efficient ways to convert potential energy to kinetic energy and distribute that energy to all the mills' machines. | Grades 4-8 | |
| The Human Impact on the Living Planet | Trace the water cycle, from precipitation to surface water runoff, to investigate how humans impact the health of the environment, and then test and improve a water filter. | Grades 4-8 | |
| Engineering a Better Future | Examine the Boott Cotton Mills' power looms and and apply the engineering design process to identify safety problems and design viable solutions. | Grades 3-5 | |
| Unbroken Bonds | Examine antebellum Lowell as a place where capitalism, slavery and activism intersected, prompting Black and white Lowellians to wrestle with the moral and economic implications of slavery and abolition. (Coming in Fall 2024). | Grades 8-12 |