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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkInteractive Tour of Ellis Island
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, United States HistoryIn this interactive tour, from Scholastic, Ellis Island comes to life. Ellis Island is the site where millions of immigrants fir...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnnie Moore -- The First Immigrant to Enter Ellis Island
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, United States HistoryThis ReadWriteThink resource features information about Annie Moore, a 15-year-old Irish girl who became the first immigrant to ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkImmigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, United States HistoryThis resource, from Scholastic, features a unit on immigration. There are links to first hand stories from immigrant children, i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkResources for Teaching American History: Invention
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.The multimedia site includes teacher-selected primary sources, a video on the electric guitar, lesson plans on the American offi...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerican Memory: The Learning Page Lesson Plans - Exploring Cultural Rituals
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Electives, History-Social Science, Psychology, World History, United States HistoryUsing photos, documents, and music from American Memory and other resources, students in a communications skills class investiga...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDocuments on Anti-Chinese Immigration Policy
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, History-Social Science, World History, United States HistoryThis page, from PBS Online s Archives of The West 1877-1887, provides two documents on anti-Chinese immigration policy. Due to...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLady Liberty
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis page from EDSITEment features resources relating to the Statue of Liberty and presents information about immigration and El...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPort of Entry Activity
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, United States HistoryIn this activity students assume the role of historical detective and investigate photographs and eyewitness accounts of immigra...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWilliam Williams Papers: Photographs of Immigrants
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Types of Media, Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts and 3 additional..This collection of images, presented by The New York Public Library Digital Gallery, depicts immigrants who came through Ellis I...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerican Memory: The Learning Page Features - Immigration
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Electives, American Democracy, History-Social Science, Economics, SociologyThis Feature Presentation includes primary source documents, original photographs and historic movies on the theme of immigrat...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkImmigrating to America
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Theatre, Humanities, Visual Arts, History-Social Science and 2 additional..In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students learn about what it was like for new immigrants to come through...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPortraits of Immigrants at Ellis Island, New York
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Types of Media, Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts and 3 additional..This collection of images, presented by The New York Public Library Digital Gallery, depicts early 20th-century immigrants at El...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe American Mosaic
Grades: 7 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, History-Social Science, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, United States HistoryIn this lesson plan, from PBS The New Americans series, students work as teams to learn about the immigrant experience in Ameri...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPhotographs of Ellis Island
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Types of Media, Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts and 3 additional..This collection of images, presented by The New York Public Library Digital Gallery, depicts Ellis Island in the early 20th cent...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLewis W. Hine Photographs
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, Types of Media, History-Social Science, United States History, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsThis web page, part of the George Eastman House Web site, presents photographs of immigrants being processed at Ellis Island in ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0