Jacob Riis VIDEO & LESSON | Immigration & Urbanization

This lesson goes with and extends this free video from History for Humans:

This is a complete, everything you need, learning activity for distance learning and distance teaching! It starts with a youtube video-lecture and comes with a follow-along interactive note sheet that could be completed digitally or with pen and paper. It also has a quick 7 question Google Form quiz to check for understanding. Lastly, it has an extension lesson that would take about 60 minutes. Students complete a mini-DBQ with three different primary sources; a photograph, text from How the Other Half Lives. To help scaffold and support students- basic questions are asked for each document to lead them to answer the DBQ in two to three paragraphs. Answer keys are provided for everything! : )

The video is not just engaging but also teaches in a way to help struggling learners. It tells the amazing story of how Jacob Riis migrated to America, struggled to survive, but exposed the hardships that so many Americans faced in the urban slums. The video also layers this story with essential historical content on urbanization and the New Immigrants and their experiences.

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