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6th Grade Social Studies

Civil Rights Project

Databases:

American History Investigates the people, events, and themes of our nation's evolution, from the explorers of the Americas to today's headlines.

​American History Online Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.

African-American History Online Provides expansive and in-depth information on the people, events, and topics important to the study of African-American history.
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Books:

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Immigration Project

Research Process

1) Assignment/Topic

2) Develop Questions
    to Research/Keywords


3) Find Answers
    and Take Notes
  • Research books, databases,
    and the Internet
  • Collect Citations

4) Organize Findings
  • Make conclusions

5) Present Findings
  • Journal project

​6) Evaluate Project
  • What worked?/What didn't?
  • What will you do differently?
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Research Questions

1) Preparation for the trip to America
  • Why did you decide to leave your country?
  • What country are you leaving?
  • How did you get the money for the trip?
  • How did you travel to the boat that would take you to America?
  • How long did it take you to prepare?
  • Who is traveling with you?
  • What will you take?
  • What are you leaving behind?

Resources
Databases
Immigration 1870-1900
The New Immigration
Why they Came Over
​Push Factors

Escaping the Empire
Websites
Why Did They Come?
Immigration to the US


2) The journey and arriving at Ellis Island
  • What was the voyage like?
  • How did you spend your time?
  • How long did it take?
  • When you arrived at Ellis Island, what was the first thing you saw?
  • How did you feel?
  • What procedures did you experience?
    • Medical inspections?
    • Interrogation?
    • Retrieving your baggage?​

Resources
Databases
Coming to America
Statue of Liberty
Websites
Arriving at Ellis Island
Ellis Island Experience (tour)
What they looked Like
Videos
Detained on Ellis Island
​Medical Examination
Ellis Island (video and transcript)
3) Life in the tenements
  • What was life like once you arrived in the city?
  • What is your housing situation?
    • Is it nice?
    • Is it crowded?
  • What part of the city are you living in?
  • What are the challenges that you will face?

Resources
Databases
Immigration 1870-1900
Silent Travelers: Germs
How the Other Half Live (excerpt)
Tenement

Websites
Tenement Life
Tenements

Videos
Tenements (video and transcript)
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Tenement Museum
4) Work conditions and discrimination
  • What is it like working as a child in a factory?
  • Are you treated fairly?
  • What kind of work do you do?
  • How much money do you make?
  • Do people in the city treat you differently because you are an immigrant?
  • Does anyone make you feel unwelcome in the United States?

Resources
Databases
Immigration 1870-1900
The New Immigration
Kids Did That?

Websites
Childhood Lost
5) Leisure time
  • What is good about being in America?
  • Are you having a hard time getting used to your new home?
  • Are you making friends?
  • Are you learning English?
  • How do you spend your leisure time?
  • How is America a land of opportunity?

Resources
Databases
Immigration 1870-1900
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The Immigrant Neighborhood
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An Amazing Journey

Websites
Immigrants, Cities, and Disease

Skimming and Scanning

skimming-reading quickly to get the main idea of the text
Read the title, subheads, first paragraph and first sentence of each paragraph.

​scanning
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rapidly viewing the text in search of key terms, phrases, or information
Scanning on the web:
  1. Open the Find bar using one of the following methods: Use the Ctrl+F keyboard shortcut. Click on the menu button , and then click Find.
  2. Type a search phrase into the Find Bar's Find: field. Firefox will start highlighting instances of your search phrase as you type.
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