Description
Book SynopsisEllis Island and Immigration for Kids explores all angles of immigration and its history in the United States. Readers will learn about the establishment of Ellis Island and its forerunner, Castle Garden, as well as the western immigration station, Angel Island. Along with activities to further enrich kids’ knowledge of immigration, this book gives its readers a thorough understanding of its impact on the United States from the earliest arrivals to today.
Activities include instructions on writing a letter home after a journey in steerage to graphing and comparing immigrant populations since the first US census in 1790. This book will help kids gain an appreciation of immigration’s impact on the United States, as well as challenge them to reflect on their own feelings about this important issue.
Readers will broaden their understanding of issues that center on immigration with cross-curriculum activities, such as poetry and letter writing, graphing, and other math analyses.Trade Review"A useful, informative overview of American immigration." -- Booklist
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Time Line
Introduction
1. Castle Island: The Foundation for Ellis Island
Pack for an Immigrant Journey
Write a Letter Home
Could You Survive?
2. Ellis Island: A New Gateway to America
Write a Poem to Welcome Immigrants
Bake Italian Mustasoles
3. Ellis Island: Island of Tears, Island of Joy
Matching and Creating Medical Letters
Make Your Money Count
4. When It All Began
How Beringia Disappeared
Make a Whirligig
5. A Great Migration Begins
Photographing and Videotaping Family History
6. A New Country Confronts New Changes
Create a Topographical Map
Stow Away a Time Capsule
7. Immigration Changes the United States Forever
Branch Out and Create a Family Tree
How Do Your Family Members Match Up?
8. World Crises and the US Response
How Did Ethnicity Change?
Create an Immigration Poster
9. The United States Confronts Global Issues Again
Kids Count, Too!
Let Your Voice Be Heard
10. Immigration in an Ever-Changing World
Sponsor an International Picnic
Make an Immigration Time Line
Answers Revealed
Glossary
Websites and Places to Visit
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
