Social Studies

Use this lesson plan to teach about Asian immigration to Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States.
(Grades 9 – 12)

Students will compare the story of John Berry Meachum who setting up a Steamboat classroom in the Mississippi River to circumvent an unjust law to the Civil Rights Movement’s strategy of civil disobedience. 
(Grades 5 – 8, 9 – 12)

Students will learn about the role of lighthouses in maritime navigation and communication and how and why women held this federal position in the nineteenth century by examining RI’s Ida Lewis.
(Grades 4, 5 – 8, 9 -12)

Learn about racial tensions in early 1940s Detroit, the fight to desegregate the SS Columbia, and the role of Thurgood Marshall.
(Grades 9-12)

Learn about Italian immigration to Providence, RI on the Fabre Line.
(Grades 9-12)

Learn the ways in which steamboats facilitated the enslavement of people and the ways in which they allowed for freedom of movement and, for some, escape to the Northern states.
(Grades 9 -12)

Have your students learn with primary sources and oral history in this lesson on immigration. Compare and contrast differing immigration stories from 1920 and 1956 on steamships with immigration today.
(Grades 3 – 5, 5 – 8)

Learn the difference between primary and secondary sources through the first black owned and operated steamship company, the Black Star Line.
(Grades 6 – 8, 9 – 12, college-level)

Teach students the history of immigration and disease in the late 19th c & early 20th c. and create an interactive information source.
(Grades 9-12)

Students will learn about the history of black sailors in America and can be assessed using short answer questions provided.
(Grades 6 – 8, 9 – 12)

Students will about class differences of passengers and complete short answer questions.
(Grades 6 – 8, 9 – 12)