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V. Industrialization--1876-1915

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1. American Family Immigration History Center--Ellis Island
2. American Inventors and Inventions
3. Americans in the Raw
4. Ellis Island
5. Immigration : The Living Mosaic of People, Culture, and Hope
6. Immigration: Stories of Yesterday & Today
7. A Roar Like Thunder
8. TeachersFirst's Inventor's Workshop
9. Zoom Inventors and Inventions: Inventors and Inventions from 1851-1900

American Family Immigration History Center--Ellis Island
http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/

If you want to learn about immigration, this is the site for you! The one and (in my eyes) only problem is that the page is run by Ellis Island and wants to sell you stuff, and has a lot of ads. But overall I highly recommend this site. At the moment, I am doing a report on immigration through Ellis Island and this is my main source. On top of it all, this site is very easy to navigate and loads VERY quickly. The site updates its information many times a year. Also the information is presented in many forms, and is organized well. A very nice feature is that you can find your ancestors that immigrated through Ellis Island. The best part of this site is that it is very clear, and has a TON of information. If you want to learn more, this site is a great resource!

• Student Author: Brent W.
• Teacher: Dave Haagensen
• Librarian: Renee Hoxie
• School: Thomas Jefferson Middle School
• Year: 2001-2002

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American Inventors and Inventions
http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/amerinv.htm

If you need a web site on American inventors and inventions of 1780-1900, then this is a site for you. I think this is a good site for information about inventors and inventions because it has great photos of inventions. If you click on a photo it will tell you about the invention and the inventor. This web site has all the information you would need. I recommend it to students age 10 and above. This site is also very easy to read and contains accurate information.

• Student Author: Asime Z.
• Teacher: Kathy Nelson
• This site helped Kathy Nelson's class answer the question(s) "Who were the inventors during the Industrial Revolution (1790-1900) and what did they invent?"
• Technology Teacher: Jill Cohan
• School: Ray F. Sennett Middle School
• Year: 2001-2002

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Americans in the Raw
http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/Immigration
/AmericansintheRaw/

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel on those crowded, stinky ships hoping to find a new life and new opportunities in a new land? Well, here you can see and read about it first hand. There are great pictures of different people and their journey across the waters to Ellis Island. It includes what was on the forms that each immigrant had to fill out. Could you provide all of that information with only the clothes on your body, one bag on your back and only a couple of bucks in your pocket, or even less? And then, after having the gruesome physical, being told you had to be sent back, away from your family and back to the poor, impoverished old country? Read about the tasks of these strong American-to-be's.

• Student Author: Amy F.
• Teacher: Dave Haagensen
• Librarian: Renee Hoxie
• School: Thomas Jefferson Middle School
• Year: 2001-2002

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Ellis Island
http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland/index2.html

If you were an immigrant, would you make it past Ellis Island? Well, if you want to know, this site's for you! At historychannel.com, they offer a free quiz that evaluates the conditions you would have faced at Ellis Island. It gives extra information about the immigration of your particular ethnic heritage. Here you can even build your own family tree! Just enter the names of your ancestors in the spaces provided, and the computer will make your family tree for you. If you'd like to see a detailed timeline on the development of Ellis Island, here's where to go. The good graphics and map of Ellis Island really make this site special. Students who want to know about the treatment of immigrants after Ellis Island would find the site very useful. I used historychannel.com to find statistics on how many immigrants were allowed into Ellis Island. I found even more than I needed! I found out about the conditions that were required to pass Ellis Island, and anyone who wants to know about any aspect of immigration, historychannel.com is where you must go!

• Student Author: Michelle N.
• Teacher: Dave Haagensen
• Librarian: Renee Hoxie
• School: Thomas Jefferson Middle School
• Year: 2001-2002

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Immigration : The Living Mosaic of People, Culture, and Hope
http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/index.html

Did you ever want to know what might have happened to the Italians when they came to the U.S.? This site tells you about the Italians and many other ethnic groups that migrated to the U.S.A. It also includes a timeline of information starting way back in 1492, and going until 1996. There are many stories that people have written about their experiences and how different it was when they arrived. It has stories from both today and the past. The pictures in this site are all very detailed and clear and help you to understand the writing. There are pictures of boats arriving at Ellis Island and of the people being examined. This site has so much information to offer; it's a great site for immigration research.

• Student Author: Elisa B.
• Teacher: Dave Haagensen
• Librarian: Renee Hoxie
• School: Thomas Jefferson Middle School
• Year: 2001-2002

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Immigration: Stories of Yesterday & Today
http://teacher.scholastic.com/immigrat/index.htm

I recommend this site for research and stories about immigrants. They have information on five young adults who moved here from Mexico, Haiti, and other places during the 1990's and their stories told in their own words. They also had an in-depth look at the experience of Seymour Rechzeit, a boy who came to America from Poland in 1920. There is an interactive tour of Ellis Island with audio and video as well as a scrapbook full of interviews, pictures and stories. Lastly, there are graphs, charts and tables on immigration statistics.

• Student Author: Bess B.
• Teacher: Rick Herndon
• This site helped Rick Herndon's class answer the question(s) "What are some reasons behind why people migrate to the United States and how are their lives changed? "
• Technology Teacher: Jill Cohan
• School: Ray F. Sennett Middle School
• Year: 2001-2002

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A Roar Like Thunder
http://www.johnstownpa.com/History/hist19.html

Relive the horrifying disaster that struck Johnstown, Pa. On May 31, 1889. Michael's Computing describes one of the worst floods in U.S. History as, "The low rumbling soon turned into a roar like thunder as 20 million gallons of water rushed down the tiny Conemaugh River towards the industrial center of Johnstown, Pennsylvania."

• Student Author: Dan S.
• Teacher: Sarah Waddell
• Librarian: Julie Weis
• School: Velma Hamilton Middle School
• Year: 2000-2001

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TeachersFirst's Inventor's Workshop
http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/inventor/index.htm

This site has a wonderful description of inventors and inventions of the Industrial Revolution. Colorful graphics and understandable descriptions make it easy to remember. At the end of all the information pages, there is an easy quiz that you may take to see how well you remembered. The information should be correct since it is a teacher resource web site. Anybody in fifth grade or older is good for this fantastic site. If any invention or inventor is to be researched on, this web site is the best.

• Student Author: Becky M.
• Teacher: Kathy Nelson
• This site helped Kathy Nelson's class answer the question(s) "Who were the inventors during the Industrial Revolution (1790-1900) and what did they invent?"
• Technology Teacher: Jill Cohan
• School: Ray F. Sennett Middle School
• Year: 2001-2002

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Zoom Inventors and Inventions: Inventors and Inventions from 1851-1900
http://www.zoomschool.com/inventors/1800b

If you need to do a report on inventors or inventions and don't like having to read long, boring, or complicated web sites, this site is for you. This web site features an alphabetized list with information about important inventions invented from 1851-1900 and the people who invented them. It includes photos or graphics with most entries and contains most of the information you would need if you were writing a report. It is very helpful and I recommend it for ages 8-14.

• Student Author: David M.
• Teacher: Kathy Nelson
• This site helped Kathy Nelson's class answer the question(s) "Who were the inventors during the Industrial Revolution (1790-1900) and what did they invent?"
• Technology Teacher: Jill Cohan
• School: Ray F. Sennett Middle School
• Year: 2001-2002

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