CommonLit
Common Lit: "The Circuit: Stories From the Life of a Migrant Child" by F. Jimenez
A collection of autobiographical short stories about a boy whose family moves from America to Mexico where they become migrant workers. Selected (6) reading passages (grades 5-8) to pair with "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
Moon Shadow is eight years old when he sails from the Middle Kingdom (China) to the land of the Golden Mountain (America) where he meets his father, Windrider, for the first time. In San Francisco, Moon Shadow and his father endure...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Experiencing Ellis Island:immigration Project
Make Ellis Island come alive for U.S. history students by processing younger students in a recreation of the immigration center. Recreate the uncertainty, fear, and confusion many immigrants experienced by arranging a variety of stations...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1840: Irish and German Immigration
Famine and political revolution in Europe led millions of Irish and German citizens to immigrate to America in the mid-nineteenth century.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Explore It: The Statue of Liberty
Students will fly around the Statue of Liberty, experiencing history through the statue's intricate details. They will learn that the Statue of Liberty was almost not built at all, and they will learn the challenges that the builders...
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Immigration Quotas, 1920 1939
Collection of digital resources gathered from public libraries, archives, and museums about immigration quotas. Find out how the U.S. redefined and restricted immigration in the 1920s.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Through Ellis Island and Angel Island, 1870 1920
Collection of digital resources gathered from public libraries, archives, and museums about Ellis Island and Angel Island. Discover America's most famous era in immigration history. The Golden Door, also known as Ellis Island, opened to...
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Coming to America
Collection of digital resources gathered from public libraries, archives, and museums about immigration. Follow generations of immigrants as they traveled to the U.S. eager to start a new life.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Becoming an American
Through primary source documents, learn about the opportunities and pressures immigrants have confronted to "become American," from cultural and educational programs like English language classes and social events to formal citizenship...
Kids' Wings
Texas Bluebonnet Books: "Tomas and the Library Lady"
Here you will find web links that will provide information to enhance the book "Tomas and the Library Lady."
PBS
Pbs Teachers: The New Americans (Lessons on the Immigrant Experience)
Find eleven lesson plans developed in conjunction with the PBS documentary "The New Americans," which explores what it means to be a new Americans in the twenty-first century. Lessons touch on topics associated with recently arrived...
History Teacher
Historyteacher.net: Immigration & Urban Society: Late 19c: Quiz (1)
10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and covers immigration in the late 19th century.
New York Times
New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Immigration
Here is an interactive & printable crossword puzzle developed by the New York Times Learning Network. The theme of this puzzle is Immigration.
EL Education
El Education: An Immigrant Experience
As part of a Learning expedition on immigration, 4th grade students in Springfield, Massachusetts, created this series of interview booklets. Students, working together in small groups, interviewed a person who had immigrated to the...
EL Education
El Education: Faces of Freedom Calendar
This calendar was created by 3rd graders in Rochester, New York, as part of a learning expedition on immigration. As a way to honor the experiences of young immigrants and to learn about immigration, students from this class interviewed...
TES Global
Blendspace: Immigration
A twenty-seven-part learning module on immigration including links to websites and documents that provide information on the many different types of immigrants and how they came to America.
Other
Center for Immigration Studies
A think tank research group that is "Pro-immigrant, low-immigration." Center for Immigration Studies offers current news articles and common topics in immigration.
Scholastic
Scholastic: The Statue of Liberty National Monument
Brief encyclopedia type article describing the Statue of Liberty National Monument. Related resources available.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Immigration
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers the analysis of documentary photos, discusses immigration to the USA in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Industrial Revolution & Immigration
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson has notes covering the American Industrial Revolution and famous leaders of the industrial age. Also includes the need for immigrants to supply the factories with workers.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Ellis Island History Facts
The history of Ellis Island is told through a series of short fun facts.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Nativism in America
Concerns about immigration led to the rise of Nativism in America.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first significant law to restrict immigration to the United States and banned the immigration of unskilled laborers from China for 10 years from 1882 to 1892, but was then extended by the 1892 Geary Act...
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Immigration Act of 1882
Learn about this comprehensive immigration law that was passed to limit immigration based on excluding certain kinds of people who were deemed "undesirable".