Teaching Project and Lesson Plans Developed by Participants in 
Teaching American History Grant - Developing Master Teachers - 2005-2006

19th Century - Theme: Immigration and Industrialization


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Name of Teacher Project or Lesson Plan
Chris Baker &
Kyleen Martell
Grade Level: 7th - Immigration & Industrialization
How Industrialization and Immigration Shaped Vermont
Mike Bruce Grade Level: 10th Grade Honors US History Course - Immigration
Restrictions placed on immigration throughout our country’s history
Beth Carini &
Marge Congdon
State of History Survey in VT
15 Essential Facts About the Years 1850 – 1930
Brendan Coogan Grade Level: 8th - Immigration
Immigration Phases and Their Effects On the United States
Ellie Davine Grade Level: 11th Honors - Immigration
An in depth look at immigration in Boston through the 1800’s.
Francis Pell Dechame Grade Level: 5th - Immigration
Knowledge of immigration, and empathy for our ancestors who, at one point or another, were also immigrants.
Lou DiAngelo For this project, contact Mary.Giordano@castleton.edu
Maureen Dobart Grade Level: 3-4 - Immigration
Push/pull factors, the process of immigration, how immigration changes peoples’ lives, & the impact immigrants have on a community.
Jennefer Eaton Grade Level: 8th - Immigration
Immigration overview including current issues
Ronald Eisenman Grade Level: 1-2 - Immigration
Who are Vermonters & where do they come from?  Immigrant and settlement history with an emphasis on local and state patterns
Jacqueline Fleming For this project, contact Mary.Giordano@castleton.edu
Jennie Gartner For this project, contact Mary.Giordano@castleton.edu
Mary Guggenberger Grade Level: 5th - Immigration
"Live" the lives of men, women and children who immigrated to America.
Kraig Hannum

Grade Level: 8th - Impact of Industrialization
How did America change from an agricultural to an industrial society? How does this compare with communist China? Understanding capitalism, communism, and Free Market society.

Jillian Joyce

For this project, contact Mary.Giordano@castleton.edu

Meg Kenny Grade Level: 10th - World and US History Course
Reform Movements in the Progressive Era - with special focus on women's contributions
Michael Luzader Grade Level: 5th & 6th - Curriculum Development
Students consider all five of the spheres of historical inquiry (personal, local, occupational, stational, and wider) & gain a degree of empathy with and for the people and time period of study.
David Marr Grade Level: 3rd - Immigration Project
"Portrait of Me" and "Digging for Roots" Issues of human interdependence and interaction
Jacqueline Martell Grade level:8th - Immigration
"We Shall Overcome: American Struggles and Dreams” with emphasis on the struggles of immigrants in the United States of America
Dennis McLaughlin Grade Level: 8th - Immigration, The Journey of An Immigrant
Linda Pacquette Grade Level: High School - Immigration
The relationship between immigration, industrialization and the importance of citizenship
Peter Patterson For this project, contact Mary.Giordano@castleton.edu
Stacey Pearsons Grade level: 8th - Immigration
Inventors and inventions that made the United States what it is today. Focusing on where the inventor was born and why they immigrated to this country
John Peterson For this project, contact Mary.Giordano@castleton.edu
Lynn Pecor Grade level: Elementary - Immigration
16 activities to study immigration and Industrialization
Adam Rosenberg

Grade level: 11th - American Studies course
Huck Finn, Historiography, and the Gilded Age

Kyle Ruby Grade level: 10th - Immigration & Industrialization
Andrew Carnegie & Mary Harris “Mother” Jones ( integrated into the the broader history of the period)
Ron Savageau Grade Level: High School - Immigration
The immigration movement of 1860’s to 1910’s, families and their possible origins/immigration to Vermont & personal narratives.
Madeline Sherman Grade Level: High School - Immigration
Students create an “exposition”- similar to the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair about various immigrant experiences in America.

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