A Note to the Teacher
This educational website tells students about immigration in the past and present.
* The headings and type are large on our pages for better viewing when used with classroom monitors. The pages can be viewed with all browsers. The preferred browser is Internet Explorer 4.5 or later versions. If using Netscape browsers some animated images may not load automatically and will require you to click and open the image first then go back to the page to view the animation.
Visiting Ellis Island gives students some information about the what it was like coming to America and stopping at Ellis Island. You can take your students to an excellent Scholastic site that will take you on a virtual tour of Ellis Island. We would recommend that if possible you find the CD or read the book If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island by Ellen Levine. (The CD is put out by Scholastic.) Please take a look at all our links on our links page to gather additional information about Ellis Island.
Immigration Today gives information about how immigrants become citizens today. After reading the information students can take a quiz and email it to us. We will send them their score if they include their address or email address. Students will see and application for citizenship and view a slide show about what immigrants need to know to become a US citizen. At this site you will see a graph of our school's heritage and we would encourage you to have your class to the same thing and compare it to our graph. We have students in our school who have recently come to America so we have some interviews from them.
Books to Read We love to read and we enjoyed learning about immigrants through both nonfiction and historical fiction books. We have included summaries for the fiction books and some activities students will enjoy. For example, the book The Bracelet has an activity for making a friendship bracelet. Other book activities include writing activities and visiting some good sites. Our class had to pretend we were an immigrant and dress like that person and tell about our experience. You can see our stories from a link on our "About Us" page.
50 Facts On this page there is an American flag. If you click on a star an immigrant fact will pop up. 50 stars, 50 facts!
Guestbook Please have your students sign our guestbook and send us a message.
This will be a fun and educational website. It will teach your students alot about coming to America past and present. We hope you like it! Have fun!