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Immigration
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Coming to America: Immigration - This page is for you teachers who have constantly asked for a page on Immigration and Ellis Island....Enjoy! (Y, M, O, T)
Electronic Field Trips: Ellis Island Unit - Lesson One- Introduction to Immigration. Grade level: Middle/Upper Elementary, High School. Subject Area: Social Studies and Language Arts. (Y, M, O, T)
America's Cultural Landscape - Lesson plan from the Museum of American Frontier Culture; students will identify the various immigrants and the contributions made to the cultural landscape of Virginia and beyond the frontier and compare and contrast the customs of the early immigrants to the customs of today's society. (M,O)
Lesson plan from the Museum of American Frontier Culture; - In this activity, the students will be conducting research, creating short narratives of each country and creating maps of the designated area to reflect their research in order to hypothesize different reasons why many Europeans left England, Germany and Ireland to come to the New World. (M,O)
Creating a New Cultural Landscape - In this activity, the students will write an explanation of how the English, Irish and German immigrants influenced the cultural landscape of the Virginia Shenandoah Valley through architecture, farming, food processing and education. (M,O)
19th-Century Immigration in Wisconsin - The first quarter of the nineteenth century was marked by westward migration into the regions north and west of the Ohio River. Though Wisconsin was initially a distant frontier, the small numbers of French, English, Americans, and American Indians who resided there had nonetheless explored and used the rich land and water resources that would soon bring thousands of immigrants into Wisconsin. There are many Primary Source documents on this site from the Wisconsin Historical Society. (T)
Immigration History and Ethnicity Resources - From the University of Minnesota, this site contains dozens of lesson plans, activities, and statistic papers to help with the study of immigration. (T)
Ellis Island Traveling Trunks - The Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island offer this exciting traveling kit for teachers to use in the classroom. It is available “on-loan” to educators for 2 week periods and is free*. A security deposit is required. (T)
Migration Station: Should We Stay or Should We Go? - In this lesson students will take a virtual visit at the Migration Station to European countries that have been impacted by immigration or emigration. Students will write and perform scenes in which a family member must convince others that it is time to migrate. Grades 9-12 from Xpeditions, National Geographic Society (O)
Asian Indian Immigration Unit - This unit will explore the concept of immigrants in general through the in-depth study of Indian immigrants and their effect on the culture of the United States. The children will learn more about themselves and others through this study. (Y)