Syllabus


 * Course Description **

The focus of the course is to design a two week unit on Immigration for fifth grade students through online distance education. The course emphasis will include immigrant’s effect on urbanization, the workforce, and the American economy. Learners will also analyze reasons why immigrants came to the United States as well as the opportunities and struggles they faced once they arrived. Overall as a result of this unit, students will demonstrate an understanding of major domestic and foreign developments that contributed to the U.S. becoming a world power.


 * Outcomes **

Students will…


 * 1) summarize the significance of large-scale immigration and the contributions to America in the early 1900s
 * 2) explain the changes in immigration in the late 19th century due to both push and pull factors
 * 3) summarize the opportunities and resistance that immigrants faced when they arrived and the cultural and economic contributions they made to this nation

