Adventures in Time and Place

Adventures in Time and Place
Grade 3: Communities
Infographic #7: United States Immigration Today
Page 234

1. The United States has welcomed many immigrants who arrived here to build new lives. Many people from around the world continue to immigrate to the United States today. Learn more about some well-known recent immigrants by exploring the Interactive Immigration Timeline.
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/newamericans/flash/timeline/flash.html

Look at the bottom row of pictures. Move your cursor over the dates to scroll through the pictures.
Find the year 1971, and move your cursor down over the picture.
Read the sentence that appears to tell about the 1971 picture.
Explore the other pictures for dates after 1971 in the same way.
Keep going until you reach 2000.

Online Activity: Famous Immigrants from Around the World
Match each immigrant to his or her native country.
Click two cards. Wait to see them turn over. Try again until you find all of the matches!

2. Moving to a new country can be hard. Immigrants who come to the United States have to find homes and jobs, and learn about daily life in our country. At this Web site, some American students share the immigration stories of their grandparents and other relatives. To read the personal stories of these immigrants, visit Immigration Museum Online.
http://library.thinkquest.org/10493/

Follow the onscreen directions to go to Immigration Museum Online.
Read the first paragraph. Then click The Families.
Click The Gaouettes to learn more about this family. Then click the Back arrow.
Explore other immigrant families in the same way.

Offline Activity: Building New Lives
The immigrants discussed in the Web site came to the United States from many different countries for many different reasons. When they arrived here, they built new lives by working, going to school, and taking care of their families. Often they tried to preserve the traditions of their home countries, while learning new ones.

Make a chart like the one below. Fill in the information about the immigrant families; the first column is done for you. Then choose one more immigrant family, and fill in the last column of your chart.

Family name	Gaouettes	Bettses	Garofalos	Mulrooneys
Native country	Canada
Why they left native country	To find work
What they did in this country	Went to work and school; kept some French traditions