Essential Questions for the Immigration Project

Business

What impact did immigration have on business and technology? They will attack this question from 4 different areas:

• Immigration and the industrial revolution.
• Cities and factories.
• Farming and machines.
• Business and economics.

English/Reading

• What challenges / obstacles must one overcome to successfully assimilate into a new culture?
• How does your individual personal history impact your life and experiences today?
• How does a knowledge of foreign cultures affect / change an individual?

Health/Physical Education

How has immigration affected the health and sporting community in the United States?

Mathematics

What is the relationship between the naturally exponential population growth of United States citizens and our country's population as influenced by immigration?

Performing Arts

How has immigration affected the development of American Art Forms?

Related Arts

How has immigration influenced our knowledge and understanding of science, technology, and artesian crafts in the United States and how will it affect our future?

Science

How has immigration influenced our knowledge and understanding of science, technology, and artesian crafts in the United States and how will it affect our future?

Social Studies

How has immigration affected the development of the political, social, and economic systems of the United States?

Special Education

Same as content areas.

World Languages

• How does immigration change or develop a language? (an example would be how did a language such as Pennsylvania Dutch come about through immigration?)
• Why do people immigrate, and how does immigration affect the culture of the "host" country and the immigrant population?
• Can cultural identity be chosen and shaped, or is it strictly inherited?