About This Lesson
SCIENCE – Learn about disease during the age of immigration to the United States.
Learning Objective
Use evidence constructed from information from various formats to answer questions, formulate an opinion, and discuss. Scroll to the bottom to find extension activities, additional resources, and additional education standards.
Time needed for implementation: 2 class periods
Education Standards
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
Grades 6-8
- Cross-cutting concept – Cause and effect: Mechanism and explanation. Systems and system models
- Science Practices – Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering). Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
Grades 9-12
- Life Science Content Standard – HS-LS2-8. Evaluate evidence for the role of group behavior on individual and species’ chances to survive and reproduce.
Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
- Reading Informational Texts Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (Grades 6-8)
- RI.3 Relationships and connections in historical, scientific, and technical texts;
- RI.7 Analyze information presented using different media; RHST.6-8.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions;
- WHST.6-8.7 Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
- Reading Informational Texts Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (Grades 9-12)
- RHST.9-10.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
- RHST.11-12.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas.
- WHST.7 Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
