District/School Administration PK-16 Program Support Educational Technology
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Coming to America
Mendon-Upton Regional School District

Project Description

This interactive unit on immigration used family history as a doorway through which students made their first journeys into the past, giving them a personal perspective on the history of their families and our nation. In this interactive, technology-rich unit, the teachers taught about immigration while they reinforced important learning objectives across the curriculum, building language arts skills through presentations, journals, family trees, timelines, web activities, and autobiographies; stimulating mathematical thinking through the construction of timelines and graphs; and increasing technology and research skills. The project also expanded the students' social awareness through the mapping of family migrations while the class researched customs and cultures of countries.

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