Lesson Plan One
“Immigration-What is it and who does it?”
Grade Level: 3rd
Time Needed: 60 minutes (Split between two 30 minutes class periods)
Subject Area: Social Studies
Topic: Immigration
Sub Topic: What is it and who does it?
Standards addressed in this lesson:
NCSS Standards-
Thematic Standard IX- Global Connections
MMSD Standards-
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas- 7. Use information gained from illustrations and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text.
Comprehension and Collaboration- 1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Comprehension and Collaboration Behavioral Science- 6. Demonstrates an ability to interact within a group while performing various group roles (i.e. organizing, planning, and goal setting).
Essential Questions:
1. What is immigration?
2. Who immigrates to the United States?
Materials Needed:
· The Arrival by Shaun Tan
· Images of immigrants to the United States from past and present, provided by various resources (listed below)
· Document camera
· 2 sheets of poster size paper
· Markers
Objectives:
· SWBAT define immigration as the movement from a home country to a new country.
· SWBAT identify immigrants as being all different kinds of people.
· SWBAT identify themselves or their ancestors as immigrants.
Prep:
· Print large copies of pictures
Lesson Context:
This lesson is the first lesson in a Social Studies unit dedicated to Immigration. The students have likely had experience with immigration so this lesson may be a review for some students, but this lesson is designed to expand students’ knowledge of what immigration is and the different people who immigrate to the United States.
Lesson Opening:
· Immigration written on whiteboard
· Students silently express in their social studies notebooks what they think immigration is
o They will share these ideas for the discussion after the reading of The Arrival
Procedures:
· Project The Arrival on the whiteboard using a document camera (This is a wordless picture book of a mans journey from his home to an new and unknown land in hopes to make a better life for his family)
o Class does a picture walk through the story
§ The students will be able to create their own ideas
§ Ask students to share any observations they have
· What do we think the man is doing?
· How do you think the man is feeling?
· What sorts of things is the man seeing?
o Turn and Talk
§ What is immigration?
§ Relate this mans journey to the journey of an immigrant to the United States and the students ideas of immigration (from opening)
§ I.e. Leaving your home and creating a new home somewhere else, coming to an unknown and maybe weird place, having to make a new life for yourself
· Create an anchor chart about immigration
o As a class discuss what your understanding or definition of immigration is (students can use ideas from opening activity)
o The teacher will write these ideas on the anchor chart
o Students will replicate the anchor chart in their Social Studies notebooks
o Example of anchor chart could look like:
“Immigration-What is it and who does it?”
Grade Level: 3rd
Time Needed: 60 minutes (Split between two 30 minutes class periods)
Subject Area: Social Studies
Topic: Immigration
Sub Topic: What is it and who does it?
Standards addressed in this lesson:
NCSS Standards-
Thematic Standard IX- Global Connections
MMSD Standards-
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas- 7. Use information gained from illustrations and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text.
Comprehension and Collaboration- 1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Comprehension and Collaboration Behavioral Science- 6. Demonstrates an ability to interact within a group while performing various group roles (i.e. organizing, planning, and goal setting).
Essential Questions:
1. What is immigration?
2. Who immigrates to the United States?
Materials Needed:
· The Arrival by Shaun Tan
· Images of immigrants to the United States from past and present, provided by various resources (listed below)
· Document camera
· 2 sheets of poster size paper
· Markers
Objectives:
· SWBAT define immigration as the movement from a home country to a new country.
· SWBAT identify immigrants as being all different kinds of people.
· SWBAT identify themselves or their ancestors as immigrants.
Prep:
· Print large copies of pictures
Lesson Context:
This lesson is the first lesson in a Social Studies unit dedicated to Immigration. The students have likely had experience with immigration so this lesson may be a review for some students, but this lesson is designed to expand students’ knowledge of what immigration is and the different people who immigrate to the United States.
Lesson Opening:
· Immigration written on whiteboard
· Students silently express in their social studies notebooks what they think immigration is
o They will share these ideas for the discussion after the reading of The Arrival
Procedures:
· Project The Arrival on the whiteboard using a document camera (This is a wordless picture book of a mans journey from his home to an new and unknown land in hopes to make a better life for his family)
o Class does a picture walk through the story
§ The students will be able to create their own ideas
§ Ask students to share any observations they have
· What do we think the man is doing?
· How do you think the man is feeling?
· What sorts of things is the man seeing?
o Turn and Talk
§ What is immigration?
§ Relate this mans journey to the journey of an immigrant to the United States and the students ideas of immigration (from opening)
§ I.e. Leaving your home and creating a new home somewhere else, coming to an unknown and maybe weird place, having to make a new life for yourself
· Create an anchor chart about immigration
o As a class discuss what your understanding or definition of immigration is (students can use ideas from opening activity)
o The teacher will write these ideas on the anchor chart
o Students will replicate the anchor chart in their Social Studies notebooks
o Example of anchor chart could look like:
· Start discussion about who immigrants are
o What kinds of people immigrate to the United States?
o Split students into 5 groups
o Each group is given a picture of a people who are immigrants to the Unites States
§ Will make observations about the people in the pictures
· Age
· Gender
· Race and ethnicity
o Students will present their pictures to the class and talk about their observations of the people in the pictures
§ As students are presenting their observations I will note some of their observations on an poster paper
· I.e. young, old, parents, grandparents, children, men, women, boys, girls, Caucasian, African, Mexican, European, Asian, etc.
§ Show students the observations recorded
· Highlight the main point: The people that immigrate to the United States are of all ages, genders and ethnicities. There are many different people that immigrate to the United States.
· Show students map of where people in the United States originate from, or where they have immigrated from and talk about the trends we see
o http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.svg
o Ask students how they think they got to the United States
§ Some students may be immigrants themselves while others will have ancestors who immigrated to the United States
§ Tell students that almost all of us, besides Native Americans, who live in the United States got here through immigration at some point or another
Closing:
· Review the definition of immigration that they class came up with and the main points of who immigrates to the United States.
· Give students a question to leave with and ponder for class tomorrow: Why do people immigrate to the United States?
Assessment:
The students will be assessed informally throughout this lesson. I will be assessing students understanding of immigration by the ideas that they write down in their social studies notebooks and the participation in full class and small group discussions. I will be looking to see that students understand what immigration is the movement from a home country to a new country and that there are all different kinds of people that immigrate.
Images of immigrants to the United States that will be shown:
o What kinds of people immigrate to the United States?
o Split students into 5 groups
o Each group is given a picture of a people who are immigrants to the Unites States
§ Will make observations about the people in the pictures
· Age
· Gender
· Race and ethnicity
o Students will present their pictures to the class and talk about their observations of the people in the pictures
§ As students are presenting their observations I will note some of their observations on an poster paper
· I.e. young, old, parents, grandparents, children, men, women, boys, girls, Caucasian, African, Mexican, European, Asian, etc.
§ Show students the observations recorded
· Highlight the main point: The people that immigrate to the United States are of all ages, genders and ethnicities. There are many different people that immigrate to the United States.
· Show students map of where people in the United States originate from, or where they have immigrated from and talk about the trends we see
o http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.svg
o Ask students how they think they got to the United States
§ Some students may be immigrants themselves while others will have ancestors who immigrated to the United States
§ Tell students that almost all of us, besides Native Americans, who live in the United States got here through immigration at some point or another
Closing:
· Review the definition of immigration that they class came up with and the main points of who immigrates to the United States.
· Give students a question to leave with and ponder for class tomorrow: Why do people immigrate to the United States?
Assessment:
The students will be assessed informally throughout this lesson. I will be assessing students understanding of immigration by the ideas that they write down in their social studies notebooks and the participation in full class and small group discussions. I will be looking to see that students understand what immigration is the movement from a home country to a new country and that there are all different kinds of people that immigrate.
Images of immigrants to the United States that will be shown: