Lesson Plans

Students will explore an immigrant's journey into the United States and honor his/her accomplishments by interviewing an immigrant, creating decorative placemats and inviting him/her to a banquet to celebrate.

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Students will develop an appreciation of the varied social, cultural, economic, artistic, and political contributions made by immigrants through a research and technological process that culminates in the production of an iMovie.

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The goal of Our Melting Pot is to develop knowledge and appreciation of the diversity of nations from which our students' ancestors came. By creating his/her own Immigration cookbook, students will appreciate their ancestry and learn about how certain foods are incorporated in to life in the United States.

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Students will appreciate the immigration experience through Aliki's Marianthe's Story: Painted Words, Spoken Memories. Through a guided reading and various classroom activities, students will identify with Mari's character as well as improve on reading, geography, art and expressive writing skills.

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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 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? exposes primary grade students to the multiple reasons why people choose to immigrate to America and the challenges immigrants face.

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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 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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