Today's social studies classroom is likely to include first or second generation immigrants to the United States. As Susan Pass, the author of this article, advanced in teaching, she learned how important it was to get to know these students. This article describes her own experiences teaching students who are immigrants. Overtime she has built a unit of study on immigration by inviting students to examine primary documents. Using primary documents increases student motivation. They seem to prefer this approach to the usual lesson format lecture and book reading. She describes her unit in this article. A list of web sites that discuss current immigration trends and issues is included at the end of this article. (Contains 13 notes.)