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Teacher Resources
This
page contains specific resources developed for teachers using
this Exploration.
Entire
Unit | Arrival & Adjustment | Becoming
American
Immigrant Family Tensions | Abused,
Homeless and Unsupervised Children Labor
and Immigrant Children
Entire
Unit
Introduce
this unit by using the Immigration feature from
the Library of Congress
This
is a multi-part presentation, which includes a section for each
of the nations from which the largest numbers of people emigrated
to the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
A section on the Native American is included, as well, to show
what happened to the First People as waves of immigrants arrived
in this nation.
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Activity
1: Arrival & Adjustment
Use
the interactive maps of Ellis Island (from the
History Channel) to bring thie arrival into America experience
alive for students
http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland/gateway/index.html
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Activity
2: Becoming American
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Activity
3: Immigrant Family Tensions
The
Lower East Side Tenement Museum website provides
a presentation and interpretation of the variety of immigrant
and migrant experiences on Manhattan's Lower East Side, a gateway
to America.
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Activity
4: Abused, Homeless and Unsupervised Children
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Activity
5: Labor and Immigrant Children
Reading
1:
The National
Child Labor Committee campaigned for tougher state and federal
laws against the abuses of industrial child labor, and Lewis Hine
was its greatest publicist. A teacher who left his profession
to work full-time as investigator for the committee, Hine prepared
a number of the Committee's reports and took some of the most
powerful images in the history of documentary photography.
Access
Lewis Hine's "Report on Child
Labor in the Cotton Mills of Mississippi" (1911) and
a report of Hine's colleague, Edward F. Brown, "Report
on Child Labor in the Gulf Coast" (1913).
Brown
identified 26 children from ages 7 to 14 (including, for example,
six 10-year-olds and five 12-year-olds) working at one oyster
factory at 4:45 a.m.
Inquiry
questions for the Hine Report
Reading
2:
"Child
Labor in New York City Tenements"
written by Mary Van Kleeck and published in Charities and
the Commons, January 18, 1908
Who
was Mary Van Kleeck?
Resources:
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