https://www.teachervision.com/immigration/teacher-resources/6633.html
Although this website is intended to be used for those in United States, UK and Australia the lesson plans are exclusively about Immigration to the United states.
It touches on issues around Ellis Island and the treatment of the Immigrants, the lines of chalk on the jacket reminded me a lot of the mistreatment of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust who were subjected to hours of tortuous queuing and this teaching plan would be good to help emulate some positive ideas about what Immigration was like. https://www.teachervision.com/immigration/printable/39648.html
I believe that a lot of these lesson plans touch upon a Melting Pot idea of Immigration in the United states, where the K12 students are being taught that the United States are in fact all just a bit of other countries and America is a melted down version of many different countries. This is shown through the specific lesson plan, 'U.S Place names show our diversity.' It touches on the founding names and their origins showing a Melting Pot idea that America is made up of many different places around the world making it 'Diverse.' https://www.teachervision.com/maps/diversity/4981.html. The lesson itself includes an activity of a map of the United States to back up this idea of America being a little bit of everywhere else.

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