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- Grade Range
- 4th - 7th
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Students identify countries of origin of their ancestors, graph patterns of migration to the U.S. and Hawaii, then utilize oral history as a primary document by interviewing their ancestors or parents to explain why they moved to their new homeland. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students discover their ancestry and how their ancestors came to where they live now using artifacts, photographs, interviews, and documents. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 6th
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Students examine the similarities and differences between modern day immigrants and pilgrims. They listen to stories, discuss their ancestors' origins, and create a native costume for a paper doll for where their ancestor is from. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 12th
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Students examine how African societies view their family and ancestors and settle disputes. They create a spirit doll, and role-play conflict resolution using the ancestor figure dolls. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to the characteristics of documentaries and making films. Individually, they write their own proposal for an idea of a documentary making sure to identify the point of view of which it is going to be filmed. After watching a video, they examine the experiences and contributions of Asian Americans to the United States. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 6th
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Students identify the foods associated with the "Days of the Dead Celebration." They compare and contrast these foods to the foods associated with American celebrations and become familiar with the foods of Mexico and their relationship to the USDA Food Pyramid. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students investigate different concepts found in the study of geography. They use maps in order to identify continents, regions, and countries. The lesson also includes an activity of discussion for students to think about their ancestors and how they may have migrated to an area from another. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th - 12th
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Students create a simple web site about their family. They work closely with their family, identify their ancestors, appreciate their ethnic backgrounds, understand the concept of immigration, connect events in history with the movement of their ancestors, become more cognizant of their own unique individual makeup and its cultural origins, and develop a better understanding of the United States as a melting pot. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students study accounts of immigration at Ellis Island. They view a website to discuss immigration and how people were treated at Ellis Island. They interview parents and grandparents and create a poster using Kid Pix software. They present their posters to the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students interview a family member about their heritage. They listen to and record part of their family's oral history. Students also create and label a family tree going back a minimum of two generations and compare and contrast cultural traditions and influences among class members. Finally, they use a map to chart the path their parents, grandparents, or other ancestors took from another country to the United States. Full Review »
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