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Showing 2,433 results for Migration and Immigration ...
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Immigration involves making the difficult decision to leave the homeland and adapt to a new life in a new location. What conditions influenced people to emigrate from their homeland in Quebec, and how were their lives changed by their relocation to Woonsocket, Rhode Island? Explain how people and communities weighed the benefits and costs of emigrating. Explain how new opportunities for work in the textile industry drew immigrants to settle in New England.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Immigration involves making the difficult decision to leave the homeland and adapt to a new life in a new location. In this lesson, students will answer the following essential question: What conditions influenced people to emigrate from their homeland in Quebec, and how were their lives changed by their relocation to Woonsocket, Rhode Island?
Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument
Immigrant Eyes
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Coming to Ellis Island on a field trip? This self-guided activity is a great way for students to learn about the original inspection immigrants had to pass upon their arrival.
Acadia National Park
Migration Patterns
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
To engage students in the process of data analysis, looking at maps of migration patterns to identify which birds migrate through the area and which do not.
Glacier National Park
Hibernation-Migration Fascination
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A comparison of two different types of hibernation – those of bears and marmots. A comparison of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park east side lowland grizzlies and highland grizzlies.
Acadia National Park
Migration Threats Activity
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to identify the challenges birds face during migration by playing a game where each student is assigned a bird during migration.
Acadia National Park
Canada Goose Migration
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Many bird populations migrate, and the most common pattern involves flying north in the spring to breed in the temperate or Arctic summer, then returning in the fall to wintering grounds in warmer regions to the south. The longer days of the northern summer provide greater opportunities for breeding birds to feed their young. Many northern-breeding ducks, geese, and swans also are migrants, but need only to move from their northern breeding grounds far enough south to escape frozen waters.
Acadia National Park
Migration Friendly School
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
To engage students in identifying positive and negative factors affecting bird migration. Students will also create an action plan to address any negative factors present on the school campus
Acadia National Park
Migration for Lower Elementary
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Explore the topic of migration by examining some of the migrating animals that travel through Acadia. These lessons are designed to take students grades K-2 outside.
Gateway Arch National Park
City of Immigrants Traveling Trunk
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
"Congratulations, you are now citizens of the United States!" Thousands of immigrants came to the United States and longed to hear these words. They hoped to build better lives for themselves and their families. In this traveling trunk, students will join three immigrant families--the Reillys, the Kuhlmanns, and the Martinos--as they immigrated to the United States and made St. Louis their home.
Acadia National Park
Hummingbird Migration K-2
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson is primarily an information – and exercise lesson. Students will read the Going Home book outside with the teacher, to get background on migrating animals. The students will then play a “Simon Says” – type game to imitate the movements of these migrating animals. There is potential for extension throughout the school year for this activity, by completing the activities at the end of this lesson.
Acadia National Park
K-2: Monarch Migration
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students and teacher will read a book about the milkweed plant and monarch butterflies. A local Master Gardener will show students how to plant the seeds and what the growing process will look like. Students will learn about the second phase of this project, to commence in the spring. Students will search for good nectar plants on school grounds.
Acadia National Park
The Great Fish Migration (7th Grade)
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Great Fish Migration is a 4 hour program that partners with the MDI Historical Society and the Somes Meynell Wildlife Refuge to bring a historic and scientific picture of the fishing history of Somesville and the revitalization of the local Alewife population.
Gateway National Recreation Area
Investigating Bird Migration and Climate Change
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
What makes Jamaica Bay such an important place for birds during migration? How will climate change impact the refuge? How can we maintain the refuge for generations to come?
- Type: Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Homesteaders, Immigrants & American Indians Curriculum Unit.
Lowell National Historical Park
Immigration, Culture, and Community Virtual Field Trip
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Discover the stories of people who came from all over the world to Lowell and who now make up the city’s diverse community. By investigating primary sources, oral histories, and objects, students learn about the immigrant groups who arrived in the U.S. in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, including why they came, how they met the challenges of settling in a different environment, and how they contributed to their new community.
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
North American Indian Migration into North Dakota
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson plan compares and contrasts the Great Plains and the Central Lowlands, identifying different tribes territories on maps, and explaining the ways the climate regions influenced Upper Missouri Plains Indian culture in North Dakota.
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
North American Indian Migration into North Dakota
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the Great Plains and the Central Lowlands. Then, students will identify different tribal territories on maps. By the end of the lesson, students will answer the following essential question: How did the different climate regions of North Dakota influence Indian cultures in those regions?
Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site
Working in America: The Allegheny Portage Railroad and the Immigration Movement
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How did Chinese and Japanese immigrants develop California's industry and culture?