The unit consists of three parts:

Part 1
An online activity on the American Centuries Web site: Influence of Five European Countries on U.S. Place Names.

Download a copy of the Project Assignments (in Microsoft Word format).

Part 2
Response questions to guide students as they read a book about immigration: If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island by Ellen Levine.

Part 3
A technology project in which students research and create a PowerPoint Presentation about an ancestor, family member, or friend who immigrated to the United States.

This unit is designed to meet Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Frameworks for 4th Grade:

4.14 Identify the five different European countries (France, Spain, England, Russia, and the Netherlands) that influenced different regions of the present United States at the time the New World was being explored and describe how their influence can be traced to place names …

4.15 Describe the diverse nature of the American people …

The activities in the unit are appropriate for students in grades 3 to 6.

Materials for this unit are available in printed format and on CD at the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield Teachers' Center or contact me and I will email you a copy.

A project of American Promises: A Teaching American History Program and the American Centuries Web site.

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Immigrants to America Grades 3-6

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Immigrants to America
Grades 3-6

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