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//How does immigration affect a community?// In this project, students will address this essential question by creating immigration story map using google maps. After completing and exploring their class map, students will learn about immigration in other countries by viewing the project partner maps. Using information from the stories, together with what they know about culture and tradition, students will engage in rich discussions focused on the essential question for this unit: // How does immigration affect a community? //

Core Content/Concepts/Skills Addressed

 * Immigration
 * Reasons for immigration
 * Immigration patterns in various countries
 * Culture and traditions and immigration
 * Importance of oral history
 * Interview skills

Social Studies Standards Addressed
AERO: Social Studies, End of grade 5 , Time, Continuity, and Change Students will understand patterns of change and continuity, relationships between people and events through time, and various interpretations of these relationships.
 * Identify and use primary and secondary sources for reconstructing the past (e.g., letters, diaries, maps, photos, interviews with senior citizens or elders of the community, newspapers, films).

AERO: Social Studies, End of grade 5 , Society and Identity Students will understand social systems and structures and how these influence individuals. > AERO: Social Studies, End of grade 5 , People, Places, and Environment Students will understand the concepts of geography and demography and how geography and demography influence and are influenced by human history.
 * Recognize how families influence the individual.
 * Understand how groups and cultures are similar and different in meeting needs and concerns of their members.
 *  Identify and describe ways that ethnicity and cultures influence people's daily lives. 
 * Understand the spatial organization of places through such concepts as location, distance, direction, scale, movement and region.
 * Define regions by their human and physical characteristics.

AERO: Social Studies, End of grade 5 , **Production, Distribution, and Consumption **
 * Students will understand fundamental economic principles and ways in which economies are shaped by geographic and human factors. **


 * Explain relationships between the locations of resources and patterns of population distribution.
 * Describe economic causes of human migration.