Change in the Making

Survey 2: To PROSPECTIVE Attendees

1. Do you take a third grade field trip?
a. No
b. Yes
2. If yes, where do you take your students for their third grade field trip?
3. How does this field trip meet your curriculum needs?
4. Did you need to complete a process to gain approval from your administration to
attend this field trip?
a. No
b. Yes
If yes, please explain:
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5. What specific benefits do you look for most in choosing a field trip destination for
your third graders? Choose all that apply.
a. Matched with classroom learning goals
b. Hands-on experience
c. Problem solving activities
d. Team building activities
e. American historical/cultural relevance
f. Other/additional comments:
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The Tsongas Industrial History Center in Lowell, Massachusetts offers an engaging third-grade
program titled Change in the Making. In Change in the Making, students learn about local
history through multi-sensory, hands-on workshops that address state curriculum frameworks.
Students actively explore changes in land use, the transition from a farm economy to a mill
economy, and technological innovations.
1. Before this survey, had you ever heard of the Change in the Making program
at the Tsongas Industrial History Center?
a. Yes
b. No
2. If yes, how did you hear about the Change in the Making program and/or the
Tsongas Industrial History Center? Check all that apply.
a. Search engine
b. Word of mouth
c. Brochure/flyer

d. Social media
e. Other/additional comments:
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3. Please rate how well the following learning objectives match your third-grade
curriculum needs. Please feel free to add explanatory comments below.
1 = not good match

2 = somewhat good match

3 = good match

4 = very good match

a. Describe how lives and work changed when people left their farms
and moved to cities to work in mills and factories. (Students use historical
artifacts, dress in 19th-century clothing, and trace changes in womens roles by
visiting a 19th-century boarding house where Lowells famous mill girls
lived.)
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b. Identify ways in which inventions and machines changed how
goods were produced. (Students hand-pick cotton seeds, use a working model of
a cotton gin to explore the impact of technology on work, and tour an operating
weave room.)
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c. Describe how peoples use of the land changed over time.
(Students participate in a hands-on, multi-sensory map activity comparing
regional land and water use from the time of native settlements to colonial
farming to industrialization.)
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4. Please comment on anything else you think we should know about third grade
curriculum and field trips.
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