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THE SECOND WAVE: European Immigration from 1850-1920

Time: 2 hours

Time	Activity	Materials & Equipment
30 min	I. Introduction "The American Memory Fellows Travel Agency" Exercise (curriculum essentials)	Chart and easel, markers, writing paper and pencils A.M.F. Travel Agency exercise Curricular Considerations and Primary Source Documents
35 min	II. Working with primary source documents What kinds of evidence of our lives do we leave behind? (primary source documents) What skills do students need to use documents and images? How may those be taught in the course of a history activity? How may the documents be used? How do students get a sense of the whole topic?	hard copies of documents, pencils, document analysis charts Assessing a Document for Use in Your Class Curricular Considerations and Primary Source Documents Curricular Considerations and Primary Source Documents Chart
35 min	III. Using the collections and the resources list. What are different ways to structure the use of Internet resources? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?	see Resource list, Overview
20 min	IV. Reflecting on what we've experienced in the session. Looking at students' work Comments, questions, discussion	participants' notes and student work, if available

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