E-Portfolio Projects
Making a Nation
Grade Level: 8
Subject Areas: Language Arts and Social Studies/History
Time Required: 100 minutes (meant to be divided over two 50 min. sessions)
Prepared by: Victoria Volker; Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders; Austin, Texas
Keywords: Nation, Identity, Borders, Citizenship, North America, Immigration, Spanish Colonization, Native Americans
Push/Pull Factors and the Quest for God, Gold, and Glory
Grade Level: 8
Subject Areas: Social Studies/US History to the Reformation Era
Time Required: 70 minutes
Prepared by: Valarie Kubos; Project Chrysalis Middle School; Houston, Texas
Keywords: Colony, Economic, Political, Push/Pull Factors, Environmental, Social, Immigration, Emigration
Download Full Lesson Plan and Powerpoints for Lesson 1 and Lesson 2
Forgotten Voices: The Bracero Program
Grade Level: 6 -10
Subject Areas: Language Arts and Social Studies/History, Science
Time Required: 50 minutes
Prepared by: Kaye Mullins and Gordon Hultberg from El Paso, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah
Keywords: Bracero, Migrant, Migration, Discrimination
Download Full Lesson Plan 1 and 2
Somos nuestros cuentos: Leyendas, historias orales, e historias personales que forman nuestra identidad en el mundo
Grade Level: Spanish II or higher with modification
Subject Areas: Spanish
Time Required: 6 weeks (or 4 weeks if not including Extended Learning component)
Prepared by: Kate Hoin; Troy, Michigan
Keywords: History, historia, Oral History, historias orales, Braceros, Detroit, Spanish Language, El español, Advanced Spanish, Intermediate Spanish, Texas History (Spanish), la historia de Tejas, Preterite/Imperfect tense, Past Tense, el pasado
Borders Near and Far: A Global and Local Investigation of Borderlands
Grade Level: 11-12
Subject Areas: Language Arts
Time Required: 120 minutes
Prepared by: Marty Frazier; Hathaway Brown School
Keywords: US-Mexico Border, Identity, Mexican-American History, Urban/Suburban borders, Yuri Herrera, Immigration Policies, Immigration Debate