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**Welcome to a fun, cross-curricular thematic unit on immigration.**

**Unit Genesis** ====Over the course of a year, this fourth grade unit on immigration has evolved from a low-tech, no-tech compilation of activities into a high-tech interdisciplinary unit. Teachers at Waldron Mercy Academy are given time to work on purposeful and effective technology integration during tech/curriculum planning days. Substitute teachers cover for teachers for a half-day while grade teachers meet with their grade partners, the curriculum director, and the technology director to brainstorm, discuss, and create. The focus for the past two years has been on implementing some of the ideas that Heidi Hayes Jacobs presents in her book __Curriculum 21__ and her curriculum 21 website. Specifically, the focus has been on making “upgrades” to curriculum and assessment that reflect what learning and assessment should look like in the 21st century. This upgraded thematic unit on immigration is the creative result of this process. This unit is an ongoing project. Future upgrades include student research and Science curriculum additions. ====

**Unit Objective**

3) What the immigration process is
4) How immigration has affected the creation of our nation

**Unit by Subject** Religion & Math - The Pilgrims' Choice and Mayflower Math Language Arts - A Very Important Day, Wiki Cookbook, The Orphan of Ellis Island: A Time-Travel Adventure Social Studies - Ellis Island, Angel Island Science - Health Field Trips - African American Museum, Chinatown, National Liberty Museum, Ellis Island Video Conference
 * Unit Introduction **
 * Culminating Activity **

**Sample Unit Calendar**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">**Important links** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">ISTE NET*S Standards for Students <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">@http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-students/nets-student-standards-2007.aspx

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