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This virtual field trip will be completed in approximately three weeks. This is targeted for grades 3-6. There are four different tours to visit during this time period. We will lead in to these lessons with two pieces of literature, Grandfather's Journey and Coming to America. We will complete these lessons with the story Molly's Pilgrim, thus leading to the overall assessment. |
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1. Learn more about the country our ancestors
originally came from including geography, dress, traditions, customs, food,
and
2. Understand the difficulties of emigrants leaving their homeland and journeying to a new land thus becoming an immigrant. 3. Understand immigration procedures such as legal and medical inspections. 4. Learn about adjustments to living in a new country where people think, act, and speak differently from each other. 5. Understand what freedom is, what it
means, and why our ancestors left their homeland to start a new life in
the new world of
6. Learn how to search websites to gather
information beginning with easy "click and go" and ending with more navigational
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Tour Stops and Student Activities:
| Pack your bags and make your plans! Mama and Papa
have said we are moving to America! But where is America? They
show me a map and say our journey by ship will take about three weeks.
Get your map and prepare for the trip.
1st Virtual Field Trip Tour: Print a map of the World and
a map of Europe to trace your journey at the site below:
Travel to Hamburg (one of several ports where immigrants left for America)
where you board a ship for the United States traveling in steerage class.
Click on links below to see what your journey and arrival in the United
States will be like.
Assessment: Write a paragraph in your journal about how you think emigrants leaving their homeland felt about their journey and how difficult you think it was to be an immigrant coming to the United States at that time. Look up the words "emigrant" and "immigrant." in a dictionary and write down the definition of each word. What is the difference? Explain.
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| Now let's take a closer look at the Ellis Island experience.
2nd Virtual Field Trip Tour: On Ellis Island
Assessment: After searching the above guided tour, your cooperative group assignment is to role play a scene of an immigrant family on Ellis Island. Use these additional link to gather more information about families traveling through Ellis Island. Additional links for Ellis Island:
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| Now that you have settled in your new home, it's time
to take a break from the everyday hardships and chores and go to see the
statue of the lady that you admired so much when you first saw America
from your ship. Use the Statue of Liberty
Scavenger Hunt questions to guide you through the following site:
3rd Virtual Field Trip Tour: The Statue of Liberty Tour
Addtional sites:
Assessment: Complete the Statue of Liberty Scavenger Hunt and use the National Parks Service and the Staten Island sites for the Statue of Liberty to write a math story problem about this statue.
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| For addtional exploration and activities about life of immigrants in New York City in the late 1800's and early 1900's, investigate the following sites: |
| 4th Virtual Field Trip:
Tenement Museum: http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/logcabin.html A Day in the Life: History Game (Irish immigrant life in 1800s) http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/sa_kids/index.html?body=irish_girl.html |
| Overall Assessment: After touring virtual fieldtrips and reading Molly's Pilgrim design a clothespin doll that looks like someone in your family, an ancestor or someone you know of who came to America from another country. Choose one of the following choices to go with the doll: 1. Interview that person or someone that knew that person and write a report that contains information on your ancestor. 2. Pretend to be your ancestor and write a three to five page diary about your experiences while coming to America. 3.Create a poster with a timeline showing important dates in your ancestor's life. Present your doll and written work to the class. |
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Click here to find the assessment
rubric for the journal paragraph, math story problem, clothespin
doll, report, diary, or timeline, and oral presentation of the clothespin
doll project.
Click here to find the assessment rubric for the role play activity.
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