Name: Caitlin Crain
WebQuest Title: The Immigrant Experience
Topic: Ellis Island Immigration
WebQuest URL:
Website
Name
URL
Country Watch
http://www.countrywatch.com/cw_default.aspx
Facts on File:
World
Geography &
Culture
http://www.fofweb.com/WGCO/default.aspx
Scholastic:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/
Immigration
Stories of
Yesterday and
Today
(Interactive
Click-and-Learn)
Scholastic:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/webcast.htm
Immigration
Stories of
Yesterday and
Today (Video
Virtual Tour)
New York
Public Library:
Digital Gallery
Eye Witness to
History
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?keyword=c
ol_id%3A165&so=title
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpim2.htm
Description
This site offers a data-base search
engine for students to find out the
history of their given “home land.”
This site offers a data-base search
engine for students to discover
more about the history and culture
of those individuals they will be
portraying.
A virtual click-and-learn tour of
Ellis Island that allows you to see
and hear the sites of this New York
Immigrant destination in the early
1900s.
A video tour through Ellis Island
given by historians and exports in
this field of study. It that allows
you to see and hear the sites of this
New York Immigrant destination in
the early 1900s while gaining
export commentary on the
experience.
A virtual photo gallery of primary
source images of Ellis Island and
immigrants in the early 1900s.
A great source of factual
information about the lives of
Think Quest:
Immigration
http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Comics.html
PBS: Destination http://www.pbs.org/destinationamerica/usim.html
America
Ellis Island: The
Peopling of
America
Think Quest: A
Living Mosaic
http://www.ellisisland.org/immexp/wseix_5_4.asp?
Think Quest: An
Immigrant’s
Journey
http://library.thinkquest.org/J001272F/immigrant/immigrants.htm
PBS: Explore
Immigrant Data
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/immigration_data/
New York
Times:
Immigration
Explorer Map
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigrationexplorer.html?exampleUserLabel=nytimes&exampleSessionId=123678403
8906
http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/index.html
immigrants after they arrived in
America. Provides easy direction
and an option for shortened text in
four different clickable categories.
A class-made site that provides
students fun and interesting
immigration comics and political
cartoons of the early 1900s.
A portion of the PBS website that
can be used for both types of
research. It provides stories of
peoples’ home countries and their
journeys to America. It also
includes a fun quiz for students to
test their knowledge.
An interactive site offering a
timeline and description of
immigration through America.
A student-made site filled with rich
stories about immigrants of the
1900s coming through Ellis Island.
A student-made site offering
individual stories of different
ethnicities. This site offers
direction for student to search their
specific chosen ethnicity of an
Immigrant.
A PBS website that offers data and
numeric information about
immigration in the early 1900s.
This includes interactive charts and
maps.
New York Times interactive map
where a student can choose an
ethnicity and year to see where your
“their” settled and how they lived.
Have Fun With
History: 1940s
Immigration
PSA
Have Fun With
History: 1917
Charlie Chaplin
Film
http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/movies/immigration.html
http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/movies/immigrant.html
Jobs:
2 children 2 parents
Tasks:
-Journals
-Post card home
-Presentation to new peoples
---- pamphlet!
Jump back in time to view this 1946
video on immigration. This offers
insight on the different views of
immigrants through the years.
Enjoy this 1917 Charlie Chaplin
silent film about immigration. It
offers insight on the opinion of
immigrants during the heaviest use
of Ellis Island.