Gateway to America - The Immigrant Experience on Ellis Island
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Friday,
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Friday, |
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Tuesday,
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Tuesday,
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Wednesday, |
| Duration of Program: 1 hour & 30 minutes | |||
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4th-12th (Age appropriate grouping based on reservations) |
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| Presenters: | |
Various Facilitators including the staff of K-12 International Education Outreach: Dianne Crowley, Senior Director Debbie Myres, Education Coordinator Senior Business Assistant |
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| Program Description: Interactive Student Participation | |
Ellis Island is a symbol of America’s immigrant heritage. Some twelve million people landed at Ellis Island; today their descendents account for almost 40% of this country’s population. This highly interactive, creative and research-based program will find students moving through a “Virtual Ellis Island” created within the International Cultural Center of Texas Tech University. As incoming immigrants from Europe at the turn of the century, students will receive passports and documents as they enter the facility which will serve as their identity during their visit and will determine which class of immigrant they are and where they are from which, in turn, will determine their experience during the simulation. Students will then use their papers as they move through the Cultural Center as they would through Ellis Island as immigrants and will use what they have learned to guide them successfully through the process of becoming an landed immigrant. Finally, students will view primary-source footage of the actual process the immigrants went through as the students reflect on their similar experience at the ICC. This program incorporates primary source materials and involves the critical higher order thinking skills including comprehension, synthesis, analysis, application and evaluation. |
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| TEKS Strands: | |
Citizenship, Culture, Geography, Government, History, Social Studies (See correlation in Appendix) |
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| TEKS Skills: | |
Making Decisions, Reading and Writing, Using Technology, Locating and Analyzing Information |
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| Core Knowledge Correlation: | |
History/Geography 2nd, History/Geography 6th |
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Cooperative Learning, Primary Source Materials,
Role-Playing/Interactive Participation, Video, PowerPoint |
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