Immigration Suitcase

The Immigration suitcase is a collection of games, worksheets and projects. It covers three main topics dealing with immigrants and immigration:

• Getting Here

• What They Found

• How Our Valley Changed

It encourages discussion of causes, decision-making, maintaining culture and discrimination. Teachers’ information sheets, reproducible pages, craft materials, games, and reproductions of documents and photographs are included to help students understand the immigration process.

Students will:

• Interpret documents and photographs

• Understand the citizenship process

• Use family tree, map and graph materials

Age: middle/upper elementary student

Subjects: history, language arts, social studies skills, geography and citizenship, and reading and writing processes and applications.

4Contents & Educator Information

Suitcase may be borrowed for up to two weeks 

The Mahoning Valley Historical Society educates and promotes an interest in the history of the Mahoning Valley by collecting, preserving, and developing material representative of the people who have inhabited the region.

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