Grades 5-8: Let's Get Packing
Additional Resources

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Stella Waitzkin, The Wreck of the UPS (detail, site view, Hotel Chelsea, New York, N.Y.)

Lesson Images:

Image of Carl Peterson's Work: Click Here

Image of Nick Engelbert's Work: Click Here

Image of Sam Rodia's Work: Click Here

 

Web Links:

Best of History Web Sites: U.S. History–Immigration

National Park Service: Statue of Liberty History

Teaching for Change: Teaching About Immigration and Organizing

"FREE": Immigration & Migration Teaching and Learning Resources

Lesson Plan Central: Immigration Lesson Plans

ProTeacher Community: Immigration to America

The Learning Page: Port of Entry: Immigration Teacher Material

The American Immigration Law Foundation:
Lesson Plans

Wisconsin Teachers of Local Culture:
Web Site

4..2..Explore: Immigration

Wisconsin Historical Society: The Emigrant's Handbook and Guide to Wisconsin, 1851

Wisconsin Historical Society: Turning Points Lesson Plans: Immigration

MyGenealogist.com: Ellis Island Genealogy Research

Dictionary.com: Immigrant

Wikipedia.org: Statue of Liberty

Discovery Education: Lesson Plans; Immigration to the United States


Student Book List:

Coan Morton, Peter. Ellis Island Interviews. New York: Facts on File, 1997.

Durbin, William. The Journal of Otto Peltonen. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2000.

Greenberg, Judith E. Newcomers To America. New York: A Division of Grolier Publishing, 1996.

Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas. We Are Americans. New York: Scholastic Nonfiction, 2003.

Lasky, Kathryn. Hope In My Heart. New York: Scholastic inc., 2003.

Sandler, Martin W. Island of Hope. New York: Scholastic Nonfiction, 2004.

Sandler, Martin W. Immigrants. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995.

Umberger, Leslie. Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007.

Then and Now. Weisman Art Museum Artful Writing Classroom Resource Kit.