About This Lesson
SOCIAL STUDIES – Learning through oral history and primary sources, students will compare early immigration via steamship with immigration today.
Learning Objectives:
Students will:
- Use web technology to access immigration history
- Develop an understanding of the concept of immigration
- Compare and contrast immigration stories of the past with the present
- Use technology to explore a historical place and event
- Learn about different experiences of immigration from both video and written oral histories
- Develop an understanding of push/pull factors in immigration
- Learn about what it was like to travel by steamship and how it changed over time.
Materials Needed:
- Large map of the world
- Yarn in multiple colors
- Push pins
- Optional: Double-sided tape or another way to temporarily attach photos to the map display
Education Standards:
Key Ideas and Details:
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1 -Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.2 -Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.3 -Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.7 – Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.8 – Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s).
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.9 – Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
