Lesson Plans

Lesson Plans: Mind Map and Story Board

Grade Level: 5th- 6th

Title of Lesson: Ellis Island: Immigration Mind Map and Story Board on Ellis Island

Time Allotment: 20 Minutes

Materials Needed: Two sheets of white paper for each student, pictures for the story board.

Anticipatory Set: The teacher will read to the students The Story of the Statue of Liberty. This way the students understand that the statue represents freedom.

NYSED Standard: Standard 1.3 English Language Art: To acquire information and understanding involves collecting data, facts, and ideas; discovering relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and using knowledge from oral, written, and electronic sources.

· Select and use strategies that have been taught for note taking, organizing, and categorizing information

NYSED Standard: Standard 2.2 World History

Establishing time frames, exploring different time periods, examining themes across time and focusing important turning points in world history help organize the study of world cultures and civilization.

Learning Activity:

The students will use a mind map to organize the time period, the students will have to write the years that the immigrants came and then they will have to write what country/ culture they came from and the reasons why they came whether it is religious freedom, job opportunity or just came voluntary for a better life.

For the story board students will be asked to get pictures of Ellis Island. They will then find answers to the following questions: When was it? Who was involved? What was it?

Where was this?

The students get to choose if they want to do the mind map or story board.

Questions:

I will ask my students the following questions:

1. What years did Ellis Island operate?

2. Why did the Irish come over?

3. What time period did the Italians come over?

4. Why do you think that some immigrants just came over voluntarily?

5. Where is Ellis Island located?

Practice: I will share with my students my mind map and story board that way they will have no questions and they will know exactly what I am looking for. When the students find information I will have them make a sloppy copy of their mind map or story boards.

Closure: When the students are done with their mind maps and story boards. I will have a class discussion with them about the information they found about immigrants and Ellis Island.

Assessment: I will then collect the mind maps and story boards and grade them. I will grade the mind maps and story boards by using a rubric. The rubric will be based on the information, how well the information was stated and how orderly the mind maps and story boards are.

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