Campus Units

Education, School of

Document Type

Article

Publication Version

Published Version

Publication Date

1-2015

Journal or Book Title

Social Studies and the Young Learner

Volume

27

Issue

3

First Page

22

Last Page

25

Abstract

When immigration is taught in schools, students usually learn about Ellis Island and Europeans arriving in the Northeast. Less often do they learn about immigrants from other continents, so, when I was asked by the local school district to develop a series of lessons for the first through fifth grades that would be used during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, I decided to teach students about Angel Island. The lesson described here was taught in a combined (grade three and four) classroom and focused on the movement of Asians—the Chinese in particular—to America via the immigration station at Angel Island. A previous lesson introduced students to the diversity of Asian and Pacific Island nations and cultures; later lessons were about Asian immigrants’ past, and their recent contributions to farming and food industries in the United States.

Comments

This article is published as Rodríguez, N. N. (2015). Teaching Angel Island through historical empathy and poetry. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 27(3), 22-25. Posted with permission.

Copyright Owner

National Council for the Social Studies

Language

en

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