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 * Anne Kuckkahn:**

Scholastic Website: [] This website leads you to the immigration page. There are many links that provide a lot of information and activities about immigration. The interactive tour section was something that I thought would be very useful in a classroom. If you click on that link, it brings you to another page where you can explore Ellis Island. The interactive tour has videos, audio, and photos from Ellis Island. This is a great way for teachers to show their students what happened during Ellis Island. The tour takes you from arriving at Ellis Island, and going through all the steps to the end of the journey. There were also questions and answers from children that have recently immigrated. This section may appeal to young children since they can relate to one another. The Statue of Liberty: [] This website has a lot of information about the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. It is less interactive and has more reading and facts. I think that this website could be used to help students read non-fiction text. I think that they could be given a worksheet that gives them directions on navigating through the website so that they learn a lot from what is on there. The students will find facts, pictures and history about the Statue of Liberty. New York Times: [] This is an interactive map that shows where different ethnic groups have settled in the United States over the years. The students can click on a specific ethnic group and the map changes to show where that group has immigrated to. The time period can also be changed. The map can also be set to show where each country has immigrated to all at the same time, so that students can compare and contrast. The information about the specific area can also be seen by scrolling over that city.


 * Margaret Lahmeyer: **

Name: Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today Address: [] This website allows students to take an interactive tour of Ellis Island online. It also has links to stories written by immigrants in the past and more recently. There are also links to charts, graphs, tables, maps, and even a scrapbook of history.

Name: Information About Ellis Island for Kids Address: [] This website gave a small amount of information of fun facts about Ellis Island. It is less overwhelming than other websites because of its lack of clutter.

Name: Big Apple History Address: [] This website is great because it uses a timeline to allow kids to look at different events as they happen sequentially. There are also specific links about people, important events and what life was like.

“Scholastic: Welcome to Immigration” [] This website includes an interactive tour of Ellis Island. It demonstrates the process that the immigrants endured as they made their journey to our country. It begins with the boat ride over to Ellis Island, and chronicles the steps they had to complete in order to gain entrance into America. This website would be a lot of fun for kids and provides a great deal of information in an enticing manner.
 * Courtney Smith**

"Immigration- Ellis Island" [] This website provides a comprehensive history of Ellis Island. It discusses its significance and why it was the central port for immigration into America. This website has great pictures that would be enticing to students and the language is elementary-age appropriate. There are a ton of facts in this site that would give the students a firm understnading of immigration.

"The First Immigrant Landed on Ellis Island" [] Annie Moore is the first documented immigrant to have arrived on Ellis Island in 1892. This website chronicles her journey from Ireland to America and provides biographical information about the life of an immigrant. This website tells the story of a young girl, just a few years older than our students, while informing readers of the many aspects of Ellis Island in 1892.


 * Kimberly Hoolihan**

Name: A Gateway for Millions URL: http://www.pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/immigration/topic7.html Summary: This website is produced by PBS Kids and presents a great insight into Ellis Island. On the website it has an article about what ELlis Island started out as and then what it has become during the time of immigration. It also has a picture from Ellis Island so as the students read about it they can have a picture of what it looks like.

Name: Kids Can Travel URL: http://www.kidscantravel.com/familyattractions/ellisisland/funstuffkids/index.html Summary: This website has a paragraph about what Ellis Island is and what happened when people arrived at Ellis Island. Also it has a photo gallery of pictures from both recent and when Ellis Island was the most common immigration station. The photos are very important because students should be able to visualize what they are learning about. Another great thing about this website is it has a fun fact section and also a map of the layout of the building. I think students would really enjoy this website.

Name: Scholastic Immigration URL: http://www.teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/ Summary: I enjoyed this website and would want to use it in my future classroom. It had a few facts on the page about Ellis Island and then a video where students could take a virtual field trip. I think this is a great idea because students would really enjoy it and it would be a great way to explore Ellis Island.


 * Melissa Pina:**

1) Gjenvick-Gjonvik Archives: Social and Cultural History: The Future of Our Past []  This Website helps to show the various immigrant documents needed by each passenger to get through to Ellis Island. This exact page only shows the Holland-American Line inspection card of a third class person, but if you look to the right of this information there is a whole list of other various immigrants, where they came from, and what class fare they were in. I believe this is a great website that can show students information that was needed for each passenger. I also believe this can help students compare and contrast the various paper work that was needed for each class fare as well as how the routes varied. 2) The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. []  This website I believe is very informational. Students can use this website to look up the history of Ellis Island, a timeline, the immigrant experience, photo albums, family histories and the peopling of America. Not only will students be able to learn a lot about Ellis Island, but they can also check out the virtual tour that is included through the website, when downloaded by iTunes. This will be able to give them a closer look at the island and the immigrants that had passed through. Lastly students can do a passenger search and can possibly find an immigrant that had the same last name as they did. I did the search and found that there were 25 people with the last name “Pina” with various residencies. Who knows, one of them could be a family member and I wouldn’t even know it. 3) Scholastic: Teachers, Where Teachers Come First []  This website gives a virtual tour and shows students step by step how an immigrant arrived and where they went first, second, third and so forth. On this web page you see a floor plan of the building, a picture of the stop you are at, and a description on the bottom. You can also click on an audio and video button located above the description. I took this tour and not only found it interesting and informational but also exciting. This website I believe would make the student feel like they were actually there. I could only imagine what a second grader would think of this website.