K-12 Immigration

http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed311/kafai/team%204/immigration

The website I have chosen gives information on the history of the Irish immigrating to American and gives a lesson plan for K-12 education.

The first part of the website explains why the Irish immigrated to America and talks about the Potato famine that plagued the country and the Irish were forced to leave rather than choosing to go.
The page also gives websites that give more information on the subject which are useful to the lesson plan. It then explains why the website is useful and then goes on to give more website links but now discussing where they went in America and what they did. The lesson plan states what grade the work is for the objectives of the lesson plan and splits the plan in to sections to learn over a certain amount of days. America feels it is important for their children to learn about immigration so that they understand where people from different backgrounds and race come from and why we are not all the same. The lesson plan aims are to get the children to understand the difference between the immigrants experiences now and then so they understand their reasons for leaving before and reasons for leaving now, and to give the children knowledge of Ireland as a country.

By teaching children about immigration from an early age they may grow up to realise that immigration can be a good thing and that these people are just looking for freedom. I think that it is good that the lesson plan looks into bad conditions the immigrants were put in when arriving in America and that the plan doesn't make America out to be this wonderful place that the immigrants were promised.