Pathfinder: Immigration

Step 1: Define your task: Look at the assignment/essential question.

Step 2: What materials might be useful for the project? Books, Encyclopedias, Online Encyclopedias, Websites. Magazine articles.

Books:

• Books about many immigrant groups - these have been placed on the reserve cart.
• Books about specific cultures are shelved at 325.2 in the Non-Fiction section. Many of these have been place on the reserve cart.

Online Databases:

• Online Encyclopedias: Grolier’s Land’s and Peoples is a good source of information about specific countries.
• Online Databases: Gale’s Student Resources in Context: includes information about a number of immigrant groups. Scroll down and click on the “Cultures” button. Be sure to choose a culture followed by the word “Americans” in order to limit your search to immigrants.

ebooks:

• Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. Use this resource for background information on the country of origin.
• Immigration and Multiculturalism: Essential Primary Sources. Use this resource for pictures, flyers, and more.
• Making It in America: A Sourcebook on Eminent Ethnic Americans Scroll down the page to the second time the ethnicity of interest is listed. Links to information on famous Americans of that ethnicity will be provided.
• US Immigration and Migration Reference Library. Includes history, biographies, and primary sources.

Websites: The following websites have information about various groups of immigrants:

Immigration: The Changing Face of America. http://memory.loc.gov/learn//features/immig/introduction.html From the American Memory Collection at the Library of Congress. Roll your mouse over the photos in the column on the left and click on the group of interest.

Independent Lens: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/newamericans.html Personal stories of 5 recent immigrants. A PBS product.

Immigration http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/researchstarters/immigration/ A Scholastic product compiled from Grolier databases.

Big Apple History: Coming to America: http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/immigration/index-flash.html

American Immigration Law Foundation: http://www.ailf.org/awards/awards_index.asp

• The following websites are the types of websites that may be available for specific groups. To find other groups, first try the sites listed above. If your group isn’t listed, perform an advanced Google search.

National Italian American Foundation: http://www.niaf.org/links/share/index.asp

Arab American Institute: http://www.aaiusa.org/

National Association of Korean Americans: http://www.naka.org/resources/history.asp

Step 3: Find the material. Consider which sources listed above might be most useful and find them.

Step 4: Use the material. Read it and take notes. CITE YOUR SOURCES!!!

Step 5: Synthesize the information: Prepare and present the skit, poster, power point, song, poem, or other approved product. PREPARE YOUR BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Step 6: Evaluate: Does the paper you wrote answer the essential question. Have you met the requirements for the assignment?

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