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ERIC Number: EJ492069
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
Pages: N/A
Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0037-7724
Photographs of Ellis Island: The High Tide of Immigration. Teaching with Documents.
Haverkamp, Beth; Schamel, Wynell
Social Education, v58 n5 p303-07 Sep 1994
Asserts that, for generations of immigrants, the federal immigration station at Ellis Island, New York, left an indelible first impression of life in the United States. Presents a lesson plan based on photographs of immigrants at Ellis Island and two poems about immigration. (CFR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, History Instruction, Immigrants, Immigration Inspectors, Learning Strategies, Photographs, Primary Sources, Social Change, Teaching Methods, United States History, Writing Assignments
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Ellis Island; Lazarus (Emma); National Archives and Records Administration