Student Activities

Working in America: The Allegheny Portage Railroad and the Immigration Movement

Grade Level:
Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Subject:
Social Studies
State Standards:
NATIONAL/STATE STANDARDS:National Standard 1-4
Pennsylvania Standard 8.1.6
Pennsylvania Standard 1.6.5
Pennsylvania Standard 3.6
Pennsylvania Standard 3.6.7
Pennsylvania Standard 7.3
Pennsylvania Standard 7.3.6
Pennsylvania Standard 9.1
Pennsylvania Stand

"Working in America" is an interdisciplinary program designed to help students achieve state and national standards in History/Social Studies, Speaking/Listening, Geography, Arts/Humanities, and Technology Education. The working standards vary state to state, but there is substantail agreement on the knowledge and skills students should acquire.

Tags: labor history african american history and culture immigration geography

Last updated: October 24, 2018