Immigration and the DNA Project

The Immigration and DNA Project: all of the resources Sarah and I used for her 7th grade unit.

Essential Questions:

Does immigration affect me? If so, how?

           -What is immigration?
           -How many people immigrate to the US each year?

-Why did/do people migrate?

Is it possible to predict a person’s DNA ancestry results by learning about their culture and background?
          -What is DNA?

          -What is genealogy?
          -How do we construct an effective question?
          -Can we predict Ms. Forster’s country/countries of    origin?

What information might help us predict a country or region of origin?

 Immigration  and the DNA Project Resources:

Click the image below to go to a file with Sarah's student forms.

Fun Quick Write Idea

Check out this fun story starter generator from Scholastic.

Scholastic Story Starters Scrambler (Click to follow link.)

Scholastic has provided a teacher's guide to go with this tool. I think this would be a great way to practice writing as a group.

A fun way to use this tool would be to select buttons 2, 3, and 4 for everyone to use and let each student push the 1st  button for the product they will be writing. Changing only one element would make the writing lots of fun as a group.

Tips and Resources for Teaching with Project Based Learning

Look here for ideas, resources, and links to help plan for PBL experiences in your classroom.
I will continue to add resources and ideas on this post.

• Uncle Reuben Year 1
• Uncle Reuben Year 2
• Student made Video of Reuben's Life
•  Uncle Reuben Video - Lucky Man
• Authentic Learning
• Using Realia
• Classroom Management for PBL