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- 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.
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.
- 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.
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?
Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument
Checking In
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will describe some of the difficulties immigrants faced when processed at Ellis Island, and identify with some of the hopes and reservations (feelings) of immigrants arriving to the United States.
Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument
Finding a Home Lesson Plan
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will: describe some of the feelings immigrants faced when deciding on a new settlement in the United States; contrast the benefits and drawbacks of living in a new location when determining a place to live and compare that to the choices immigrants make past and present; and formulate several reasons why immigrants elected to live in selected areas.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson provides a case study of an immigrant community of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and offers a contrast to the typical textbook coverage that emphasizes immigration from eastern and southern Europe to the big cities of the north.
Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument
Finding a Home
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
As immigrants finished processing at Ellis Island, many waited with hopes, fears, and anticipation about where they chose to settle. Some preferred the comforts of immigrant communities nearby. Others hoped to find better job opportunities outside the greater New York City area. Finding a Home simulates the experience of being a newly-arrived immigrant excited to take their next steps in America.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn why Moravians immigrated to the New World and how the towns they established embodied their religious beliefs.
Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument
Neighborhood Treats
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
In oral history interviews, immigrants spoke in great detail about how they felt tasting Jello, white bread, and bananas for the first time. Often they sent letters back home describing their awe and nervous anticipation of the textures and tastes of these new foods. Students will get a chance to try new foods that contributed to the immigrant experience on Ellis Island and of today.
Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument
Extra! Extra!
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This fun activity leads students through the "Peak Immigration Years" exhibit; a great way to learn about the motivations that entice people to move to the United States!
Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument
Be An Inspector
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Our most popular activity sheet! Students will play the role as a detective who will uncover the process immigrants went through at Ellis Island. Join us on that voyage today!
Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument
Push and Pull Factors
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Leaving one’s country can be tough! This lesson plan explores the different reasons why individuals and immigrant communities would elect to move from one country to another.
Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park
Paterson & American Industry
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Explore Paterson's role in the Industrial Revolution and discover how the natural world inspired a founding father, entrepreneurs, immigrants, poets and artists to build the nation's first industrial city and changed the world.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The lesson can be used in teaching units on late 19th-century urban expansion, especially as influenced by immigration and the Industrial Revolution. It also could form the core of an interdisciplinary unit when used in conjunction with lessons on the Romantic and Transcendentalist movements and lessons on botany.
Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument
Checking In
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The legal inspection was next. For immigrants, this was the final test to pass before a new life in America. Do your students have what it takes to pass the dreaded legal examination? Through role playing, let’s see if your students can get into America too!