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Subjects

• Language Arts
• Ed. Technology
• U.S. History

Grades

• 6-8
• 9-12

Brief Description

Students create a multimedia presentation comparing the experiences of immigrants who arrived at New York's Ellis Island with the experiences of those who arrived at California's Angel Island.

Objectives

Keywords

immigration, ethnic, bias, exclusion, multicultural

Materials Needed

Computer access to sites or printouts of pages from sites about Angel Island, such as

• Immigration Station
• Angel Island: A Hell for Some Who Sought the Gold Mountain
• The Angel Island Home Page
• Angel Island
• Angel Island: California's Immigration Station

Sites about Ellis Island, such as

• Ellis Island
• New York, NY, Ellis Island Immigration: 1900-1920
• History Channel Exhibits: Ellis Island
• Ellis Island Audio

A multimedia authoring tool, such as PowerPoint, HyperStudio, or html (presentations could be created in other forms or formats)

Lesson Plan

Arrange students into groups of six or eight, and ask members of each group to work together to create a multimedia presentation comparing Ellis Island with Angel Island. Have half the students in each group explore print and online resources about Ellis Island; the other students should research Angel Island. Explain to students that they should look for information and photographs relating to the ethnic, social, economic, and cultural background of the immigrants; their reasons for immigrating; and their experiences while traveling to, arriving at, and living in the United States. After all the information is collected, students in each group should get together and discuss the areas they'll compare. Then group members should work together to create the presentations.

Assessment

Lesson Plan Source

Submitted By

Linda Starr

National Standards

English:
NL-ENG.K-12.3
NL-ENG.K-12.6
NL-ENG.K-12.8

U.S. History:
NSS-USH.5-12.6

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