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Lower School Lesson Plans

Immigration Stories - By Children, For Children

Immigration Stories - By Children, For Children is a lesson for primary school students designed to utilize a variety of research sources. Students will write their own immigration stories for other children in order to foster understanding of present day immigrant experiences.

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The Memory Coat: A Board Game

The Memory Coat Journey - A Board Game is designed as a follow-up enrichment activity to the picture book The Memory Coat Journey which follows a Russian Jewish boy on his journey to America during WWII.

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Why Did They Leave Home?

Why Did They Leave Home? exposes primary grade students to the multiple reasons why people choose to immigrate to America and the challenges immigrants face.

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Interview Project: Getting to Know Our Immigrant Friends through Graphs

Getting to Know Our Immigrant Friends through Graphs introduces primary grade students to immigration by gathering and sharing information about immigrants and displaying this information on different types of graphs.

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Multicultural Book Parade: Celebrating Immigration to America

Multicultural Book Parade: Celebrating Immigration to America involves the entire school community in a celebration, through reading, writing, artwork, and oral communication activities, of stories of courage, resilience, and strength told by and about immigrants coming to America.

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