home

== = Immigration: Then and Now: A Project of 21st Century Classrooms = = =

Essential Question: How does migration affect the lives of people and the character of places?
==
 * Key Questions:**

What push factors drive immigration? What pull factors draw immigrants to a new place? How does immigration affect the United States? How does emigration affect the homelands people leave behind? How does immigration affect the places where people settle? Why might some regions push more migrants than they pull?


 * Objectives (Content):**

-describe the effects of immigration -idenitfy and describe ethnic neighborhoods/enclaves -analyze the growth of cities as a result of immigration -connect the effects of immigration in the past to those of today


 * Objectives (technology):**

-utilize interactive maps -annotate a text -create a podcast -create a mini video using Flip