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Interactive Tour of Ellis Island Interactive

Interactive Tour of Ellis Island

3rd - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewTen stops take scholars on an interactive tour of Ellis Island. Each engaging "stop" comes with a detailed description, two facts, and photos with captions. 
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The Lowdown — What You Need to Know about Immigration Reform Interactive

The Lowdown — What You Need to Know about Immigration Reform

8th
CCSS: Designed
New ReviewWe're all from somewhere. An informative interactive provides information on immigration, foreign-born residents, and deportations. Pupils interpret the graphics to analyze how these quantities have changed over time. The resource is...
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Changing Demographics: What Can We Do to Promote Respect? Lesson Plan

Changing Demographics: What Can We Do to Promote Respect?

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewAmerica has always been seen as a melting pot to the world. Scholars research the concept of blending cultures in the United States and how it is changing over time. The final lesson of a four-part series analyzes the changing...
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Making an Immigrant Story Unit

Making an Immigrant Story

7th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Budding historians research the trip immigrants to the United States take and the reasons behind their willingness to start over in a new place. Groups create their own video lessons outlining the story of human migration from departure...
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Diasporas: The Great Geographic Dislocations of History Lesson Plan

Diasporas: The Great Geographic Dislocations of History

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
The current population distribution throughout the world is largely based on geopolitical events that have forced groups of people to leave their homes forever. High schoolers learn more about the diasporas scattered around the world as...
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Utopian Promise Unit

Utopian Promise

6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Scholars learn all about the Puritans in the third installment of a 16-part lesson series. After watching a video, they read and discuss biographies of Puritans and Quakers from American history, write journal entries and poetry, and...
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America – West Side Story Lesson Plan

America – West Side Story

8th - 12th
Anita's iconic rooftop ode to American life in West Side Story is the focus of a lesson on immigration. As class members listen to "America," they follow along with printed lyrics, and discuss whether they agree with Anita's assessment...
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How Can Poetry Make People Think and Care? Lesson Plan

How Can Poetry Make People Think and Care?

8th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Can beautiful words change the world? Literary scholars discover how to paint their visions of change using poetry in a series of three workshops. Each independent topic gives participants a chance to examine their feelings about...
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Industrializing America Unit

Industrializing America

6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Imagine an eight year old spindle boy working barefoot in a factory in the late 1800s. Scholars research the industrial period in American history in the 14th lesson of a 22-part series that explores the country's background. Groups...
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Is There Really an Immigration Line? Lesson Plan

Is There Really an Immigration Line?

8th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
If you've ever looked at the US immigration system, you know that it is complex and a source of controversy. An insightful lesson plan encourages learners to conduct their own analyses of the US immigration system by asking them to...
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Una Vida, Dos Países: Children and Youth (Back) in Mexico Unit

Una Vida, Dos Países: Children and Youth (Back) in Mexico

6th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
What would you give up for an opportunity of a better life? Scholars investigate the experience of immigrating to the United States. Through video and first-hand accounts, they analyze the dangers, concerns, and fears that follow an...
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Population Dynamics Interactive

Population Dynamics

10th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
Will human population growth always be exponential, or will we find a limiting factor we can't avoid? Young scientists learn about both exponential and logistic growth models in various animal populations. They use case studies to...
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What Does Community Mean to Me? Lesson Plan

What Does Community Mean to Me?

7th - 12th
Having a strong and supportive community is key for adolescent success. Teenagers explore the circles of their own communities, including the rights and responsibilities of being in their families, peer relationships, and their country,...
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The Ups and Downs of Populations Lesson Plan

The Ups and Downs of Populations

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
As the reality of population decline across many species becomes real, pupils learn about the variables related to changes in populations. They complete a simulation of population changes and graph the results, then discuss limiting...
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Random Acts of Kindness: Understanding Others
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Random Acts of Kindness: Understanding Others

7th
CCSS: Adaptable
The beginning of a more tolerant world begins with the younger generation. Seventh graders work on empathy, listening skills, and demonstrating respect with a short series of lessons about understanding their peers and others in their community.
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Immigration Lesson Plan
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Immigration

7th
CCSS: Designed
There are likely members of your class who are immigrants to your country, and even more of them whose parents, grandparents, or great grandparents left their countries to find a new life. Teach seventh graders about treating immigrants...
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Highways and Change Lesson Plan

Highways and Change

9th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
What is the cost of change? Roberto Guerra's photo essay "La Carretera: Life and Change Along Peru's Interoceanic Highway" asks viewers to consider the impacts of the 1,600 mile-long highway through Peru and Brazil that connects Pacific...
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The Rights of Migrants in the United States Lesson Plan: Fleeing for Your Life Lesson Plan

The Rights of Migrants in the United States Lesson Plan: Fleeing for Your Life

6th - 8th
A role-playing scenario has middle-schoolers imagining that they are refugees forced to flee their community and integrate into a new one. Then, some play the roles of members of the new community and the class brainstorms ideas about...
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U.S. Immigration Policy and Hitler’s Holocaust Lesson Plan

U.S. Immigration Policy and Hitler’s Holocaust

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Though the Statue of Liberty welcomes political refugees to her shores, the welcoming sentiment has not always been reflected in the American citizenry. High schoolers read about the regrettable period in United States history when the...
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Educating European Immigrant Children Before World War I Lesson Plan

Educating European Immigrant Children Before World War I

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
As if surviving a journey to America wasn't enough of a feat for early 20th century immigrants, they then needed to settle into American life. Learn about the ways New York public education attempted to meet the needs of its students,...
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Educating About Immigration The DREAM Act Lesson Plan

Educating About Immigration The DREAM Act

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Group members role play state legislators, supporters of and opponents to the The DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors). After listening to the arguments put forth for and against the immigration legislation,...
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Immigration: Why Come to the United States? Lesson Plan

Immigration: Why Come to the United States?

6th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Don't limit your curriculum to texts! Young historians listen to a song, read an interview, and examine a cartoon as they explore motivations for immigrating to the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 
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The Power to Persevere Lesson Plan

The Power to Persevere

9th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
Joris Debeij's film, Making It in America, takes a look at Alma Velasco, a Salvadoran immigrant who was granted political asylum in the United States. The lesson gives a face to immigrants and their struggles to embrace the American Dream.
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Immigrant Discrimination Lesson Plan

Immigrant Discrimination

6th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
For a class learning about Chinese and Irish immigration in America, here's a great starting lesson plan. It has your critical thinkers examining song lyrics, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, and a political cartoon, and finally...
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