Friday, April 3, 2009

Standards and Weblinks

Fifth Graders

___Standards___
Social Studies Standard 4:  Students will understand the 19th century was a time of incredible change for the United States, including geographic expansion, constitutional crisis, and economic growth
Educational Tech Standard 7:  Use telecommunications and on-line recourses to participate in collaborative problem-solving activities to develop solutions or products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. 
Language Arts Standard 1:  Students develop language for the purpose of effectively communicating through speaking, viewing, and presenting.

___Web Links___
I found a lot of great websites for Ellis Island.  I found some good ones and I found some horrible ones.  Here are some of the good ones that I found.

Here is an interactive tour of Ellis Island
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/index.htm
I like this one, because it has pictures and captions for each of the pictures.  It is a good resource for students to see the pictures.  It is organized well and very brief to keep students' attention.

http://www.ellisisland.org/quizzes/quiz_a.asp
I really like this quiz.  It's just about the United States, and it would be cool for the students to take this and explain to students that immigrants had to pass this sometimes to live here.  And maybe use it as like, oh, you didn't make it.  And narrow down people.

http://www.ellisilsland.org/immexp/wseix_2_3.asp?
This website is cool.  It shows stories of six different immigrants and their personal stories.  If I have 6 different groups, I could have them each do one different person and they can present their story to the class. 

I found a lot of really cool websites.
Some other cool ones that I found are
http://www.history.com/content/ellisisland/timeline
http://www.ellisisland.org/photoalbums/ellis_island_photo_album.asp



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