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Essential Question : What push and pull factors brought immigrants to the United States and created the conditions that necessitated them leaving their homeland(s )?. By: Elizabeth Davis and Daniel Aulbach. Learning Activities.
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Essential Question: What push and pull factors brought immigrants to the United States and created the conditions that necessitated them leaving their homeland(s)? By: Elizabeth Davis and Daniel Aulbach
Learning Activities • What did different ethnic groups experience as they came through the ports of immigration? • Did the Immigrant Experience different from on ethnic group to another? • In what ways were conditions in the United States and abroad responsible for large-scale immigration to the United States? • Did the United States live up to the dreams of the “new immigrants”? Was America a land of opportunity for immigrants? • How was “new immigration” different than “old immigration”? • How did cultures clash during the time period of immigration?
Introduction to Immigration • Why were immigrants coming to the United States? • Why were immigrants leaving their countries? • What were immigrants experiences when they arrived?
Intro to Immigration: Group Project • Ink Splatter • What Does the Primary Source Tell Us? • Creating Classroom Exhibit
Practice Creating Classroom Exhibition Group Work: • Sources: Review your sources to decide the images, illustrations, or articles you will use • Theme: What connections can you find among all of the documents? Choose a theme (from the list on the other side of this sheet) that your documents have in common. • Thesis: In your group decide on your thesis—what is your exhibitions main idea? • Organize the exhibit board: How will you arrange your sources on your board to support your theme? Make sure to include your thesis on your presentation. • Captions/Headings: Where will you cite your sources? How will you identify the sources you are using? • Labels: Museums often use labels to explain objects and images on display. Where will you put your labels and what will they say?
Regents Themes • Change • Citizenship • Civic Values • Constitutional Principles • Culture and Intellectual Life • Diversity • Economic Systems • Environment • Factors and Production • Foreign Policy • Government • Human Systems • Immigration and Migration • Individuals, Groups, Institutions • Interdependence • Physical Systems • Places and Regions • Reform Movements • Presidential Decisions and Actions • Science and Technology