Hello All,
Today we talked about immigration and Ellis Island. Although we thought of many good ideas of lesson plans we could teach to our students on this topic, I wanted to go on-line and find more. I found a virtual tour of Ellis Island on Scholastic.com, which allows students to virtually go through each step of the immigration process and look at pictures/read about each of these steps. This could work in connection with setting up an Ellis Island simulation in the classroom, so students could experience, on a smaller level, what the immigrants felt like. The other resource I found with great ideas is a blog where teachers have posted immigration lessons. Enjoy these wonderful resources, there are many fantastic ideas!
Scholastic Ellis Island Virtual Tour:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/index.htm
Teacher Immigration Blog:
http://www.proteacher.org/c/275_immigration_unit_activities.html
Thanks for finding these helpful sites – and for connecting them to what we are doing in class.