Teaching Immigration History - Cincinnati

US Immigration History

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Cincinnati Public Schools14 February 2011

Connecting to Student Learning

• Immigration Handout

• CPS Academic Content Standards– Grade 10

Overview and Approach

• Explore a topic - Immigration o Historical Contexto Primary Sources

• Discuss finding primary sourceso The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American Historyo The National Archiveso Library of Congresso Ohio Memory

• Broader Overview of Online Resourceso Finding Reputable Sources

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Website

• http://www.gilderlehrman.org– Search “The Collection”– OR– Search “The Website” ******

• History Now: http://www.historynow.org

• Module: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module.php?module_id=413

GLI Module: Immigration

• http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module_pop_resource.php?module_id=421&resource_id=889

National Archives

• http://www.archives.gov (NOT .com)– Click on “Teachers’ Resources”

• New Interactive Site for Teachers – DocsTeach– http://docsteach.org– Activities – You can submit activities

National Archives cont’d

• Interactive Activity related to Immigration:– http://docsteach.org/activities/70

• ARC Gallery: Immigration and Naturalization– http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/topics/imm

igration/

Ohio Memory

• http://www.ohiomemory.org

– Click on “Subject Category Essays”

• “Immigration and Ethnic Heritage in Ohio to 1903”

– Several sources on Flash Drive from here

German Immigration

• German Immigration as a Case Study

– Divisions Among German Americans• Daniels’ Coming to America, pp. 152-159

– What do you think the purpose

of this document is?

• 19th Century German Immigration in Historical Context– http://maxkade.iupui.edu/nameword/context.html

• The Germans in America– http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/imde/germany.html

• Click on Picture• Photo Analysis:

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/photo_analysis_worksheet.pdf

• Germans in America: CHRONOLOGY– http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/imde/germchro.ht

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– Timeline Activity #1

The Dream of the Good Life in America

• http://maxkade.iupui.edu/unit19/apen19-e.html

Immigration Explorer

• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html

• From the New York Times

German Words in the American Language

• http://maxkade.iupui.edu/nameword/apend-d.html

Moving: Push and Pull

• http://maxkade.iupui.edu/unit19/apen19b1.html

• http://maxkade.iupui.edu/unit19/apen19b2.html

Good and Bad Jobs for Immigrants from Germany

1850• http://maxkade.iupui.edu/unit19/apen19-

c.html

• http://maxkade.iupui.edu/unit19/apen19-d.html

German Immigrant Poem

• http://maxkade.iupui.edu/unit19/apen19-m.html

• Report by the German Immigrant– http://maxkade.iupui.edu/unit19/apen19-h.html

• American laws Regulating Immigration and Asylum– http://maxkade.iupui.edu/adams/chap10.html

• US Census Bureau: Ancestry– http://www.census.gov/apsd/cqc/cqc14.pdf

Today's Resources

Today's Resources (including this PPT)are all available through a

free public site.

http://www.slideshare.net/kellyinkansas