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Immigration Connections: The Squamish Nation and Bainbridge Island Filipino Americans

For Teachers 8th - 12th
High schoolers explore ancestry and immigration. In this Canadian immigration lesson, students interview their family members to identify their cultural history. They compose an essay that compares Filipino immigration stories to those...
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The Family Quilt

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine the artwork of Faith Ringgold. They create their own quilt pattern on fabric and piece them together to create a class quilt. They compare their similarities with one another.
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Discovering Yourself

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore Aboriginal storytelling. In this literature lesson, students read Knots on a Counting Rope and then create a story line as they discuss the attributes of Aboriginal culture. Students retell the story in their own words.
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Expression: Masks - Activity 1

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students create art plans for an "installation" after viewing a video of Native American mask making that centers around the Salmon rack idea. Emphasis is placed on collaborative work in this introductory lesson plan.
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My Life in Numbers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Have fun while your class creates a timeline of their lives. They record events before and after they were born on a line with 10 integer pairs consisting of one integer on each side of zero. Many extension activities can be done in...
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Miss Rumphius

For Teachers K - 5th
Students engage in a literature study in order to appreciate the world around them and create an innate instinct of working for the cause of conservation for the environment. They answer guided questions that use the story as a resource.
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Advocacy, Recognition, Prevention Through Art and Health

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars analyze how the environment and family history impacts personal health. In this personal health lesson, students discuss cancer and survey the school community about the disease. Young scholars create a bulletin board...
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Immigration/Migration: Today and During the Great Depression

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders compare experiences of their families to those living through the Great Depression using famiy interviews, photographs, films and document from the Library of Congress.
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The Book Thief: Discussion Questions

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Expand your study of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak with a question for each level of Bloom's Taxonomy. These questions focus on part four of the novel; each is paired with at least one quote from the text for context and teacher...
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My Name Is Osama

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students read a short story about a young Iraqi boy, which opens up classroom discussion about the difficulties some immigrant students face, especially in the days after September 11.
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Vocab-u-lous - Build a Fabulous Vocab

For Students 8th - 11th
In this vocabulary building worksheet, students enhance their personal vocabulary by learning words with the BL or BR blend. Students are allowed the use of a dictionary.
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Legends

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students are introduced to the topic of legends. Using the text of Irving's novels, they gather information on different cultures. They practice using new vocabulary and their listening skills. They retell the stories in chronlogical order.
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US Immigration

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars examine the history of immigration in the United States. Using primary source documents, they identify the areas of origin for people settling in Minnesota and describe the push and pull factors that brought them there....
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Social Studies: Where I Come From

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research the countries of their origins and examine life there today. They write family travel logs by interviewing family members about their heritages, and they visit the Xpeditions Website for online resources about their...
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Immigration: Our Changing Voices

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify how immigration affects the family and or community. In this Immigration lesson, students examine traditional migration and how immigration has changed over time. Students will consider their own families and history...
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Eyewitness to History

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners explore historical connections, talking with family members about landmark events they have witnessed in their lifetimes to explore how history touches our lives. They identify several landmark events of the late 20th century.
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We Are What We Remember

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in research, small-group discussions, whole class discussions, family interviews, and interaction with multimedia resource material as they explore the relationship between memory and history.
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Social Studies: Shaking the Family Tree

For Teachers 1st
Create family trees while reading "Little House in the Big Woods." After examining Laura Ingalls Wilder's family tree, compare it to a real tree's roots and branches. Conclude with interviewing family members and decorating family...
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Family Structures

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars organize information about their family into a family record. For this research lesson, students collect information about their families and organize it chronologically.
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It All Begins With A Name

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
When students learn about coats of arms symbols, they can explore history, math, and their own ancestry.
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Huntington's Disease

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students research specific genetic disorders and create a pedigree of a fictitious local family in which Huntington's Disease is found. They predict inheritance and severity of HD and role play decision making process involving genetic...
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Archaeology and Storytelling

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify and interpret both individual families and whole cultures learn about their pasts by collecting and analyzing stories and artifacts. Then they identify that not all archaeological finds readily reveal their history to...
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What is History? Timelines and Oral Histories

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars consider how we learn about the past and discuss how the framing of history is always done by the person who is telling it. They construct a personal and class timelines, compare two or more accounts of the same event and...
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Immigration and Migration Today and During the Great Depression

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students conduct oral history interviews and research primary resources to explain changes in immigration and migration over time.

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