Lesson plan

Tempest Tossed: Ellis Island

GeoHistory GeoLiteracy GeoSTEM

Description

In this lesson, students examine the migration of
people to the United States during the time of Ellis
Island and the basic economics of their lives as
American immigrants. They then will write on “Who
had/has it harder? Yesterday’s or Today’s
Immigrants.”

Duration

2 class periods

Author

Julie

Leckman

Standards

1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information
9: The characteristics, distribution and migration of human populations
11: The patterns and networks of economic interdependence
17: How to apply geography to interpret the past

Teacher Instructions

LeckmanEllisIsT.pdf (296.38 KB)

Student Materials

LeckmanEllisIsS.pdf (1.42 MB)

Eastern_US_1860.pdf (1003.11 KB)