Ellis Island Needs Your Help Background Information The curator at Ellis Island wants to add Kiosks to their museum She wants to teach visitors about WHO immigrated to the United States and WHY they came to America ID: 801578
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Kiosks at Ellis Island
A Coding Project
Slide2Ellis Island Needs Your Help!
Background Information:
The curator at Ellis Island wants to add Kiosks to their museum
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She wants to teach visitors about WHO immigrated to the United States and WHY they came to America.
Slide3What are Kiosks?
A small stand-alone device providing information and services on a computer screen
Slide4Your Task as the Coder
Choose a group of immigrants that came to America between 1892-1954.
Refer to your notes
from your social studies class
Write your narrator’s speech once you have answered these
three
questions
What country did the group come from?Why did the group leave the country?
Describe an experience (good or bad) that the immigrants may have had while at Ellis Island.
Slide5Now Create The Program for Your Kiosk