LMTech_ellisisland

Followup Activity:
Resources for this topic are so incredibly rich! It's a great topic to introduce or reinforce research using primary sources. Add annotations below each of the sites listed (or e-mail susan.stansberry@okstate.edu) to help other teachers make use of these resources.

Looking for America: Resources for Education on Ellis Island and Immigration http://midgefrazel.net/lookingforamerica.html Wow! What a wealth of information. One could spend many hours going through the different websites. So much good information on the history of Ellis Island. (Ronda Hill, LMS, Pawnee High School) A lot of links on this site. The "Lower East Side Tenement Museum" link gives you an idea of how immigrant life may have been once they arrived in the United States. Also viewed the short movie "Looking For America". (K. Blankenship, Briggs School)

PBS Kids Ellis Island site http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/immigration/topic7.html Good information, but not quiet as much as the History Channel Site. This might be a good place to take students if you are talking about all of New York City and not just Ellis Island. (Ronda Hill, LMS, Pawnee High School)

One Life to Another (a ThinkQuest project) http://library.thinkquest.org/26786/en/home/help.php3 This site is very interesting. The pictures in the slideshow tour are very powerful. The site is very easy to navigate through and find the information needed for the project. I loved reading about the different causes for the immigrants to come to America. (Ronda Hill, LMS, Pawnee High School)

Ellis Island from the History Channel http://www.history.com/minisites/ellisisland/ This is my favorite site about Ellis Island. So many interesting facts and stories about the process immigrants went through on Ellis Island. The Gateway was full of so many facts that a student could learn so much from just this one site. (Ronda Hill, LMS, Pawnee High School)

Scholastic's Interactive Tour of Ellis Island http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/index.htm

Immigration: The Changing Face of America http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/immig/immigration_set1.html Enjoyed reading the unique histories associated with the various immigrant groups that arrived in the United States. (K. Blankenship, Briggs School)

Ellis Island website http://www.ellisisland.org/ Clicked on a link from this page and took several quizzes on citizenship--good place for students as well as teachers to test their knowledge. (K. Blankenship, Briggs School)

The American Memory Project [|http://memory.loc.gov] Search this amazing database of primary sources related to Ellis Island