Lessons on Immigration for K-12 Students

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/index.htm

The website I have found this week is actually a link from another website that provides lesson plans for K-12 students.


http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/plans.html#Lesson Plans

Unfortunately the link doesn't work anymore, but once you look for it, the Scholastic website opens up a whole new world of educational information. I chose this website because it is an interactive experience which provides information for children about immigration and America and also builds on their computer skills from a young age.

I found the interactive tour of Ellis Island particularly fascinating as it had pictures, information, video and audio clips that tells you all about what happened once the immigrants got to the island to start their new life as an American. Even as a university student, I found it insightful!!

The website also provides graphs for teacher's to use that give information such as the number of immigrants that left each country over the course of 150 or so years, much like the figure's that were provided in the seminar this week.

The way immigration is presented on this website is that it was a vital part of American history. I think that it is instilled in you from a very young age that America was founded not by Americans, but by foreigner's. I remember having American friends as a small child and they said they learned a rhyme to help the remember who discovered America; 'In fourteen-hundred- and-ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue'. It's a very useful website for both teachers and students. I believe it is primarily for teacher's who want to put together a lesson plan, but eventually it is what the children will learn.