Immigrant Experience in America Students will learn about immigration, Ellis Island, and tenement life from 1890 to 1924. Students will conduct online research and write an essay about immigrant life. http: //thirteen.org/edonline/lessons/immigrati...
Mapping Change in Your Neighborhood In this activity, you will trace the changes that have transformed your neighborhood over the past 25 years http: //edsitement.neh.gov/athome/mapping_change.ht...
Sodbusters! In this lesson, students examine photographs of sod houses, build a model sod house.. http: //edsitement.neh.gov/lessonplans/sodhouse.htm...
The Statue of Liberty:Bringing the 'New Colossus' to America In this lesson, students learn about the effort to convince a skeptical American public to contribute to the effort to erect a pedestal and to bring the Statue of Liberty to New York http: //edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=...
What is History? Timelines and Oral Histories This lesson plan addresses the ways people learn about events from the past and discusses how historical accounts are influenced by the perspective of the person giving the account.. http: //edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=...
Where I Come From Students take research into their heritage a step beyond the construction of a family tree http: //edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=...
