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Life as an Immigrant and the Effects of Immigration in the early 1900s

 * Key Questions: **

//What is life like for people who immigrate?// //What are the effects of immigration?// //How does immigration effect the growth of cities?// //How does immigration spur urban reform?// //How have places changed over time as a result of immigration?//

**Tools:** Interactive Tenement Tour, Wordle,
 * Topics: ** Urban growth and Reform, tenement housing, factory work

=__Opener:__ After the last couple of days, how has your view of a 21st century classroom changed? What does this type of classroom look like?? (Please just answer this question on a Post It on your desktop)=

__** Procedure: **__


 * 1**. Take a couple of minutes to "personalize" your immigration page on your wikispace. Add a flag or map of your family's heritage or something to represent your/your family's immigration history!


 * 2**. Go to the site, “The Peopling of America” [|Peopling of America]. As you navigate through the site, gather a list of reasons why people immigrate/leave their home lands (push factors). Then use a **Wordle** to make a ‘splash’ of the various reasons that people immigrate. Wordle. In other words, use Wordle as a brainstroming tool to create a visual representation of the reasons people immigrate. Please print your wordle when you are finished and save it.




 * 3**. Next, explore a tenement and the life of a recent immigrant in the 1900's using the Virtual Tour found on the New York Tenement website. Follow all of the directions/arrows on the virtual tour, finishing with the creation of the postcard. Then, print the post card. When you have finished the tour, please go to your electronic notebook that you set up on the first day. Create a new section and title it "Effects of Immigration". Then on the page, please answer the following questions:

//a. What is a tenement house? (You may have to search other sites to answer this question) b.. How did immigration lead to the creation of tenement housing? c. What is life like for new immigrants in the early 1900's? What is life like in tenement housing? d. What potential obstacles can you see for recently arrived immigrants in the early 1900s?//


 * 3b:** Explore different websites to answer the following questions:

**a. What are the effects of immigration on cities? b. How has immigration changed the United States? How was it changed Boston?**

NOW...Using //Inspiration,// you are going to **"Mind Map"** what you have learned through your exploration today. Your main topic is "Immigration". Your 3 subtopics should be: **Reasons People immigrate/Life of an Immigrant/Effects of Immigration.**



Immigration/City Life/Urban Reform:


 * 4**. Explore the following site Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. As you explore, begin thinking about how immigration effects the people who immigrate and also how immigration effects the places where these immigrants settle. Think about the following questions....

a. //How might immigration effect the relationship between the government and the people?

b. What challenges does the government face when people immigrate to a particular country?

c. What does the Shirtwaist Fire tell us about how immigration affects different people/places?//

Include text, pictures, and anything else you can find to connect this incident to the effects of immigration...
 * 4b.** Create your own page about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire...Make sure to include **Who/What/When/Where/Why/How**


 * 5.** Start a new page on your wiki and title it: Immigration Project. Begin a list of questions that you would ask if you were interviewing an immigrant in the United States (It can be an immigrant in 1900 or an immigrant today!)


 * 6.** Please look up Jane Addams' "Hull House". What is it? How does it relate to what we are talking about? How is it a response to immigration?


 * 7**. Before leaving today, please perform your own search for reputable immigration websites...Add them to your page!



Immigrating in the 1900s