Chinese Migration to America

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Chinese Migration to America

• 1840 - 1900

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• Project Description
• Students will collect and organize information
  about Chinese migration to the United States in
  the 1800s.
• Students will identify and draw conclusions about
  the factors impacting immigration.
• Students will organize and represent numerical
  data in a graph.

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Ca. 4th grade Mathematics Content Standard 1.0

• Students organize,represent, and interpret
  numerical and categorical data and clearly
  communicate their findings.

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• Social Science Standard 3.1
• Students describe the physical and human
  geography and use maps, tables,graphs,
  photographs, and charts to organize information
  about people, places, and environments in spatial
  context.

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Shared Reading Lesson

• Shared Reading Lesson using the Wikipedia article
  Chinese American History
• Highlight important information
• Summarize

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Early History of Chinese Immigration to the U.S.

• Most of the early immigrants came from the
  province of Guangzhou.This province later came to
  be known as Canton.
• Canton was the major trade center for China
• Many Chinese heard of the United States from
  sailors who came on ships that would come into
  port at Canton.
• Word of America spread fast, the Chinese begin
  to be curious about this new land and its
  opportunities.

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Map of China

• Students locate the port of Canton to better
  understand its importance in Transpacific trade.
• Identify the origin of early immigrants.

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• Students create a bar graph to show Chinese
  immigration from1850-1900

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Summary

• Students use data from the bar graph to
• Identify trends and patterns in the number of
  immigrants
• form hypothesis about the causes for these
  trends