These units and individual lessons were created by participants in Year 1 of the TEC Teaching American History program between September 2008 and August 2009. The focus of this year of coursework was immigration. Participants created not only lessons and entire units, but wrote scholarly papers focused on immigrant individuals and artifacts and places related to immigration.
Ashland (Middle School): The Immigrant and the Immigrant Experience
Arlington Project (Armenian Immigration)
Dedham High School:
(Immigration Over Time in the Greater Boston Area
Colonialism to the 21st Century)
Dover/Sherborn Immigration Units
Part 1: "Countries of Origin" Unit
Part 3: The Immigrant Experience: Neighborhoods and Homes
Boston Immigration Lessons (Grade 2)
Framingham 1 (Grade 4 Unit on Modern Immigration)
Framingham 2
Part 1: Eames, Knight, Fuller & Perini: Tracing the Contribution of Immigrants in Framingham
Part 2: Framingham Villages and Regions
Medfield High School Immigration Project
Part 1: Patterns of Immigration: The United States, Massachusetts & Medfield
Part 2: Irish, Canadian & Italians Immigrants
Natick
Pt. 1: Natick Immigration from 1631 to present day
Pt. 2: Examining Places & Artifacts around Natick from 1631 to present day
Needham
A View From the Past: The Journey to America 1840-1940
Phoenix School Immigration Project, Part II
Walpole Immigration Project (Grs. 3-5)
Part 1: Immigration & Ellis Island
Part 2: Places and Artifacts related to immigration
Wellesley (Grade 3/4): Artifacts and Oral Histories of Russian Immigrants
Westwood High School
Part 1: The Roosevelts and the American Dream
Part 2: The Pilgrims and Lowell Mill Girls
Wayland HS Project: Immigration and the Gilded Age