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- 3rd - 12th
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Students visit John Schick's Virtual Ellis Island Museum created by students in his classroom in order to develop criteria for their own research. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students study the immigration station on Ellis Island. Through several activities, they see that immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island came to America from different countries, mostly those in Europe, for a variety of reasons. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students search the internet to uncover the processes involved in immigrating through Ellis Island. A virtual tour to Ellis Island provides audio footage of the immigration process. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students study about immigration, Ellis Island, and tenement life from 1890 to 1924. They create an identity of a fictitious immigrant and describe what they find when they arrive in New York. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine what it was like to enter the U.S. as an immigrant. They conduct Internet research, develop a concept map, list the ways children occupied their time while at Ellis Island, and create a diorama. Full Review »
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- 5th - 12th
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Students participate in a simulation activity. They explore Ellis Island and experiences that immigrants in the late 1800's had on their way to the United States. The role play includes questioning by inspectors, a manifest list, and the possibility of being detained or denied entry into the United States. Students discuss their activity. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students study the history of Ellis Island and the hardships people faced there. They go to a website which is imbedded in this plan and watch a short video on some of the people that were immigrants and went through Ellis Island. They interview a person that had come through Ellis Island as an immigrant. They will be videotaping their interview and may work in pairs but they each have to interview a different person. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students read different materials on the history of Ellis Island. Using a map, they locate the countries of origin of the immigrants coming to America. They create graphs comparing the number of national groups within ten-year periods. Using the information from the graphs, they write a letter to a friend in their home country. Full Review »
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- 1st - 3rd
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Students create a little layered book to show what they have learned about Ellis Island. The students color the illustrations, cut out the cover, illustrations, and each template. They then trace the rectangle onto the light blue paper and the three ocean pages onto the dark blue paper. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students are introduced to the importance of Ellis Island. Using the internet, they research the history of the island and the immigration patterns during the late 1800s and early 1900s. They practice reading and answering questions in English instead of their native language. Full Review »
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