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  • Lesson plan Immigration The Journey to America

    Subject(s): History and Geography
    Content Area(s): Immigration and Citizenship
    The journey to America was difficult, exhausting and often dangerous, but learning about immigration doesn’t have to be! Students’ participation in this literature rich unit will help them underst…

  • Lesson plan The Hopes of Our Ancestors The Impact of Immigration on America

    Subject(s): History and Geography
    Content Area(s): Immigration, Industrialization, and Urbanization
    Learn how to develop an interdisciplinary unit on immigration (1830-1940), basalize trade books used in teaching, and present successful, exciting lessons in social studies, language arts, reading, sc…

  • Lesson plan Out of Many One Reading Comprehension and Writing through the Study of Immigration

    Subject(s): Language Arts/English, History and Geography
    Content Area(s): Reading and Writing, Immigration and Citizenship
    This is a cross-curricular unit on immigration. Reading comprehension and writing skills are incorporated throughout the unit. Activities will focus on increasing student’s abilities to recall and c…

  • Lesson plan Sojourners and Citizens A Study of Immigration and Citizenship

    Subject(s): History and Geography
    Content Area(s): Immigration and Citizenship
    …oncepts as noted in the Core Knowledge Sequence for American History and Geography, Section V, Immigration and Citizenship. Through narrative, biography, poetry and personal experience, students will …

  • Lesson plan Immigration The Character of Our Ancestors An Intergenerational Unit

    The purpose of the unit is to help students understand immigration and the relationship of immigration within their family. Working with parents, the children have an opportunity to learn first hand s…

  • Lesson plan Coming to America US Immigration

    Subject(s): History and Geography
    Content Area(s): Immigration, Industrialization, and Urbanization
    In this unit, students will examine the experiences and struggles of American immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The influx of millions of immigrants to the United States during thi

  • Lesson plan Immigration Coming to America

    Subject(s): History and Geography
    Content Area(s): Immigration and Citizenship
    The goals of this unit are for students to develop a sense of historical empathy and to become aware of the contributions of immigrants. Much of the learning will be discovery based through role-play.

  • Lesson plan Second Grade “Immigration and Citizenship” Assessment

    Subject(s): History and Geography
    Content Area(s): Immigration and Citizenship

  • Lesson plan The Immigration Experience

    Subject(s): History and Geography
    Content Area(s): Immigration and Citizenship
    This unit is designed to give sixth grade students a true immigrant experience. They will begin by becoming an immigrant and experiencing their arrival at Ellis Island. Once the learner has an underst

  • Lesson plan Immigration Research Organize and Present

    …is project will support the development of lessons and activities spanning the period of early immigration to America. To increase students’ understanding of the difficulties newly-arrived immigrant…

  • Lesson plan SECOND GRADERS CREATE THEIR OWN SOCIAL STUDIES BOOK (Part V, The Immigrants Arrive)

    Subject(s): History and Geography
    Content Area(s): Immigration and Citizenship, Early Exploration and Settlement
    …II-War of 1812, Part III-Westward Expansion, IV-Civil War), students will learn about American immigration, who the immigrants were, how and why they came, where they lived and how America welcomed th…

  • Lesson plan A Changing Society Industrialization and Urbanization

    Subject(s): History and Geography
    Content Area(s): Immigration, Industrialization, and Urbanization
    During the period known as the “Gilded Age,” massive transitions took place both in society and private enterprise. Through a variety of cooperative learning activities and whole group instruction

  • Lesson plan Isn’t It Exciting? (The American Industrial Revolution and Urbanization)

    Subject(s): History and Geography
    Content Area(s): Immigration, Industrialization, and Urbanization, Inventors and inventions
    In this unit, students will learn about America’s “Gilded Age.” They will learn about some great inventions of this time, some great men of this time, the corruption of this time, and the root o

  • Lesson plan Necessity is the Mother of Invention The Impact of the Industrial Revolution on the World

    Subject(s): History and Geography
    Content Area(s): Immigration, Industrialization, and Urbanization
    This unit will trace the origin of the Industrial Revolution in England to its arrival in the United States. Students will research the varied inventions that were often created out of necessity, the

  • Lesson plan Welcome to the Land of Opportunity!

    Subject(s): History and Geography
    Content Area(s): Immigration and Citizenship
    Students will be exploring the experiences of immigrants who settled in the United States, especially from the 1800s to the mid-1900s. They will read stories about the lives of the immigrants and part

  • Lesson plan IRVING BERLIN THROUGH THE YEARS

    Subject(s): Music
    Content Area(s): Vocal Music
    …med to have been custom fit for Core Knowledge. Through his life span of 101 years he survived immigration, the great American Depression, and both world wars. In this unit the life of this remarkable…

  • Lesson plan SECOND GRADERS CREATE THEIR OWN SOCIAL STUDIES BOOK (Part VI, Getting Civil Rights is Not Always Civil)

    Subject(s): History and Geography
    Content Area(s): Civil Rights Movement
    …es book-Part I-Constitution, Part II-War of 1812, Part III-Westward Expansion, IV-Civil War, V-Immigration), students will learn about the struggle for civil rights in America, who did not have equal …