2010-2011+Soc.+Stud.+Unit

__"A GROWING AMERICA"__ Coordinator: Molly Millnitz Recorder: Trent Colle

__**Nebraska State Standards**__ 4.1.2 By the end of fourth grade, students will describe the contributions from the cultural and ethnic groups that made up our national heritage: Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, European Americans, and Asian Americans.

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4.1.3 By the end of fourth grade, students will describe social and economic development of Nebraska in the 20th century.======


 * 1) **What unit/big topic will be used?** "A Growing America" and the movement.
 * 2) **What big ideas should students understand?** *Immigration-"Why Do People Move?" **Possible Reasons**: Forced or Seeking Opportunity (safety, jobs, money, family, better life) *What Were Their Cultural Backgrounds? (Identities)
 * 3) **What projects could be designed for the unit?** Family history (CREATE FAMILY TREE), Ethnic holidays (Write a report), Ethnic food day (Bring an ethnic food item; describe the process & what you learned from this)
 * 4) **What are the objectives/learning goals?** Understanding of United States cultural background
 * 5) **What assessments will be used to measure learning?** construction of the report, construction of the family tree, reflecting on others' book report.
 * 6) **What instructional activities should be used?** -internet searching -explain your model of your family tree

[|Scholastic: Immigration]

[|Blank Family Tree]

[|Videos of Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty]

Suggested books... //__The Great Ancestor Hunt__//, Lila Perl Yerkow __//Climbing Your Family Tree//__, Ira Wolfman __Ellis Island,__ by Hal Marcouitz __Ellis Island__, by Judith Jango-Cohen __Island of Hope__, by Martin W. Sandler __Coming to America: The Story of Immigration__, by Betsy Maestro