After a grand conversation about immigration to the United States, scholars interview a family member to learn about their journey to America. They then take their new-found knowledge and apply their findings to tracking their family members' movement on a personal and classroom map. Finally, they construct a bar graph to display the lesson's data. 

Concepts

immigration, emigration, human migration, migration, refugees, continents, countries, map skills, bar graphs

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Invite family members to share their immigration story to the class 
• Encourage class members to research the country from which their family came 

Classroom Considerations

• The activity is the eighth of nine in a series of resources that focus on family heritage

Pros

• Provides key facts to establish a learning base

Cons

• None

Common Core

3.MD.B.3