Ellis Island and Statue of liberty webquest
You may be visiting these stations in a different order, but please locate the title of your station to complete the required task. You should work on this for the full amount of time. Keep exploring and learning! You can always add more to your experience! (All the links are the red text)
Ellis Island Virtual Tour
Complete the page in your packet for this station.
Math Connection
Use the data and graphs to answer 3 of the questions in the page holder. You may answer these questions on a lined piece of paper with your partner. You will need to think critically! Use your background knowledge about graphs to interpret the data.
Annie Moore
On a lined piece of paper, answer the following questions using complete sentences and information from the text.
1. Tell me about Annie.
2. Where are the two statues of Annie located?
3. List 4 facts from the story
4. Annie was traveling with her two other brothers, how do you think they might have felt when Annie was the "first" to go through Ellis Island?
5. What might be a good title for a story about Annie?
Timeline
Review the Timeline and select one major event or statistic on the timeline. You need to read it and put it in your own words. We will put these into Timetoast.com and have a virtual timeline!
Meet Immigrants and Hear their Stories!
Read about all the immigrants. They did not go through Ellis Island, but hear how their stories are different. Write an introduction for one of the characters. This must be a paragraph and can be put on lined paper.
Statue of Liberty - Unknown
Watch this video and record facts from the video. You will need to hear what they are saying and may need to watch it more than once. Make sure you are recording fact fragments! You are not just recording everything the video says, really ask yourself, what am I learning about the Statue of Liberty?
Explore these other sites:
National Park Service
Ellis Island Medical Check
Coming to America
Learning through History