Yankees and Immigrants Field Trip

Yankee and Immigrant Field Trip

By Student Bloggers Annalisa & Eva

On March 22nd, Team Gibbas went to the Lowell Mills.

We learned about the Yankees and immigrants. An immigrant is a person who travels to a different country permanently. A Yankee is a native of New England.

We learned the challenges of an immigrant and how the immigrants traveled to America. We also learned that the young Yankee girls worked in the Lowell Mills for fourteen hours a day! All of us explored the boarding houses where the  mill girls lived. We got to go into the loud mill factory where we saw  the big, noisy machines that produce a funny smell.

Click video below to hear the weaving room in action.

Later, we role played immigrants and Yankees at a town meeting discussing whether or not the citizens of Lowell should build a school for the Irish immigrants using their tax money.

We also all got passports and acted as immigrants getting off a ship to New England.

We were all from different countries, and got together with our fellow immigrants. We saw the luggage that the different immigrants would bring to America, and made a mini-museum with the objects.  

We loved our educational field trip a lot. Thanks a lot to the Lowell Mills!