Talking About Immigration: Classroom Resources

Recommended Resources

In addition to the lesson plans organized by topic below, we recommend Larry Ferlazzo's series of guests posts on teaching controversial topics in the classroom from Education Week.

AdLit.org: Immigration Text Set

AdLit.org has compiled a text set for use with middle and high school students around the topic of immigration. A text set utilizes a collection of texts and other materials on a particular topic or theme that allows students to access the same standards-based curricula from varying reading levels and perspectives, while also building a shared understanding of a topic or theme.

Lesson Plans & Classroom Resources: Immigration

• Listenwise: Immigration Collection
• The New York Times Learning Network Lesson Plans (search by term "immigration")
• Coming to America (The New York Times)
• Immigration Policy and Rights (Share My Lesson)
• The Immigrant Experience (Share My Lesson)
• The New Americans (Independent Lens)
• Immigration Lesson Plans (Library of Congress)
• Tenement Museum Lesson Plans
• Energy of a Nation (Intergroup Resources)
• Global Immigration (Facing History)
• Immigrant Student Success Workshop: Educator Resources (Immigration Learning Center)
• 8 National Park Sites That Tell the Story of Immigration (National Parks Conservation Association)

KQED Resources

• Immigrant Voices
• Interactive Timeline: A History of Immigration in America
• Coming To America: Our Best Student Podcasts About Immigration

PBS NewsHour Extra and Colorín Colorado

• ICE immigration raids took this school superintendent by surprise
• How the Statue of Liberty poem provides a lesson in immigration history
• Lesson Plan: The power of photographs from Vietnam to the border crisis
• How Michigan schools welcome refugees from Syria and Yemen

Classroom resources: The 14th Amendment

• What is the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause? (PBS NewsHour)
• Birthright citizenship: A history lesson on the Fourteenth Amendment (The Washington Post)
• Fact Check: Fourteenth Amendment on Citizenship Cannot Be Overwritten by Executive Order (NPR)
• Fourteenth Amendment and Citizenship (Library of Congress)
• Lesson Plan: Exploring the Fourteenth Amendment (Judicial Learning Center)
• Overview: Fourteenth Amendment (Cornell Law School)
• 14^th Amendment Text (Teaching Tolerance)