About This Lesson
Humans have been migrating throughout every place and time in our history, so in this series we give you the tools to explore immigration through the lens of the history and social studies curricula already being taught. With this resource, we examine the landscape of immigration during the American Revolution with two lesson plans and a student resource. Each of the two lesson plans, “Comparing Early and Modern Immigration to America” and “Early Immigration Law,” is designed to be flexible and adaptable based on the needs of your class. Each has an extension geared toward older students and could cover one or two class periods. The student resource, “Foreign-Born Heroes of the American Revolution,” summarizes the contributions of 10 individuals and is accompanied by discussion questions and extension ideas. Any of these pieces could stand alone or be woven together into the existing scope and sequence.
For more resources, visit The Immigrant Learning Center at https://www.ilctr.org/promoting-immigrants/ilc-workshops/educators-2/
