Teacher

Teachers

Ask the big question: How do people from different cultures moving to America affect that area through immigration? Do a sticky-note discussion graffiti board.

Watch virtual tour of Ellis Island and discuss as whole class.

Invite people from different countries to come and speak to your students. Allow the students to ask questions.

Do a job fair.
List the individual jobs and their duties on a large paper, and put around the room. Have students go to the job they feel they can do best. Then pick one person from each group to make a family or team.

Diversity students

Be sure to mix the diversity of the students in each group.
Make sure to include print resources such as catalogs of business furniture, and classified adds from the news papers for research.

Print resources

classified adds from the news paper
business furniture catalogs

The show-me Standards:
SS 6. relationships of the individual and groups to institutions and cultural traditions
SS 3. develop and apply strategies based on one’s own experience in preventing or solving problems
SS 4. evaluate the processes used in recognizing and solving problems
SS 6. examine problems and proposed solutions from multiple perspectives

GLE's ADDRESSED:
Explain causes and effects of migration
streams, movements of people to job
markets, barriers to human movement
and how people overcome such barriers
SS.5.E.7-1 (DOK 2; PS 1.6, 3.6)

Describe how ideas, concepts and
traditions have changed over time
SS.6.I.6-1 (DOK 2; PS 1.9)

iste.nets:

4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.
Students:
b. plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project.
c. collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions.

Credits