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Lesson # 7
Morgan Bortle
45 Minutes
Goal: Provide a deep understanding about the cultures, experiences, ancestry, opportunities -
and processes that accompany immigration.
Lesson Preparation
Goal: The purpose of this lesson is to have students recognize the many reasons that people
move from place to place (advantages in America for immigrants) and what those reasons are
based on the advantages of the new place or disadvantages of the place they are leaving.
Students will create their own chart to identify where they are moving to, what they are
bringing with them and why they are traveling there (advantages in America based on the
disadvantages of their home).
I. Learning Objectives
a. Students will be able to identify the reasons for why people are leaving their
home origin to migrate to another place.
b. Students will be able to list the advantages available in America for immigrants
from 1892-1954.
II. Standards by Discipline & Content Themes
a. 6.1.4.A. Identify scarcity of resources in a local community.
b. 6.1.4.D-Explain what influences the choices people make
c. Theme 4: Individual Development and Identity NCSS.1.4.c assist learners to
describe the ways family, religion, gender, ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic
status, and other group and cultural influences contribute to the development of
sense of self.
d. Theme 4: Individual Development and Identity NCSS.1.4.h assist learners as they
work independently and cooperatively within groups and institutions to
accomplish goals.
III. Academic Language
a. Vocabulary:
i. Advantages- Putting something into a better position. Better
opportunities, more selection, freedom, continue family growth,
education
ii. Immigrant- A person who moves to a different country to live
permanently
b. Skills:
i. Writing
ii. Reading
iii. Using Personal Connections
iv. Researching Countries
v. Locating Places on a Map
c. Concepts:
i. Advantages in America
ii. Disadvantages in other countries
iii. Economics- job opportunities, scarcity in home origins
iv. Choice to move or not
IV. Technology, Materials, Resources
a. Materials:
i. Book: Oh, the Places You’ll Go
ii. Construction Paper (Brown and White)
iii. Pencils
iv. Scissors
v. Glue
vi. Computers
vii. World Maps
viii. Star stickers
b. Technology:
i. Students will use computers to research advantages in America
compared to the disadvantages of the country the students selected.
Instructional Delivery
V. Anticipatory Set
a. The teacher will ask the students where they have traveled to before and why
they went to that place.
b. The teacher will ask where people would want to move to and the reason for
why they would want to go there. (Are there better things at this place, is the
weather better than here, etc.)
c. “Does anyone remember why people migrated to America?”
d. “Why do you think people would want to move their entire family to a new
location?”
VII. Closure
a. Students will share with the class where they chose to migrate to and two of the
advantages of migrating to that place.
b. Students will hang their suitcases up to use as references.
c. Teacher will review the students input in their suitcases to see the overall
reasons for immigration that they used.
IX. Accommodations
a. To help a student with an IEP for ADHD, the student will be given more time to
come up with the answers for the project and can also do the project with
another student to help keep them on track.
X. Modifications
a. Students who need modifications will pick a place they would like to travel to
and identify what the advantages are of traveling to this place. These students
do not have to pretend they are one of the immigrants migrating and can relate
the activity to their personal life to help them better understand.
Meeting Objectives
XI. Assessments
a. Teacher will be able to look over the student’s work and what they wrote in their
suitcases to see if they were able to identify the reasons on why people were
traveling to where they were going and why they were leaving their place or
origin.
b. The teacher will also observe if the students were able to identify what things to
bring because of the scarcity of supplies where they’re going or where they’re
leaving from.
c. The teacher will observe the list of advantages in America for the immigrants to
see if the students understood the reasons for why people were migrating to
America and leaving their home countries. The teacher will be able to see if they
understood by the list they formed and if the list reflected the concepts
reviewed in class.
World Map Sheet: