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Immigration to Hawaii


Name: Annette Spinaio & Lorey Ishihara
Grade Level: 9 - 12 (could be modified for lower levels)
Date: Hawaii Geographic Alliance - August 2-6, 1998

Purpose:

This lesson will allow the students to gain an understanding of why the different groups came to Hawaii and what they experienced as new arrivals to the Island Kingdom. Through integrating the geographic themes using both primary and secondary sources, students will be able to identify the events of immigration and its influence on regions.

This lesson will allow students to:

  1. analyze movement and human characteristics of immigrants
  2. evaluate how forces of economics allowed people to migrate and settle

Objectives:

The students will be able to:

  1. work collaboratively in small groups
  2. summarize readings on various immigrant groups
  3. discuss and chart the advantages and disadvantages of contract labor
  4. create a mini presentation depicting the experiences of each immigrant group

Geographic Themes:
location, place, human environment interaction, movement, and region

National Standards:

Standard 4: The physical and human characteristics of places
Standard 6: How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions
Standard 11: The patterns and networks of economic interdepence on Earth's surface
Standard 12: The processes, patterns, and functions of human settlement

Geographic Skills:

  1. Acquire geographic information through readings and maps
  2. Organize geographic information through charting
  3. Analyze geographic information through synthesizing primary and secondary sources.
  4. Answer geographic questions through charting, discussing, presenting information gained from resources.

Hawaii Content and Performance Standards:
- Use and apply geographic themes of location, place, human environment interaction, movement, and region
- Explain how historical events were influenced by physical and human geographical factors
- Explain the economic effects of human environment interactions

Materials Needed:
  1. chart paper
  2. pens and pencils
  3. tape
  4. handouts

Procedures:
  1. Explain the objectives of the lesson
  2. Divide the students into jigsaw groups
  3. Have the groups choose a recorder, reporter, facilitator, materials person, & time keeper. Explain each role.
  4. Have supply person come up and get all the group supplies for the activity.
  5. Tell students that this is called a jigsaw activity because each group has a valuable piece to read, know, and share with the larger group.
  6. Assign reading sections to each group. (15-20 minutes to read)
  7. After reading is done, each group will: (30 minutes)
    1. summarize and discuss what they read for oral presentation
    2. on chart paper, list the advantages and disadvantages for laborers and employer. Explain who benefits the most.
    3. create a presentation depicting the experiences of your group (i.e. songs, poems, skits)

Assessment:
Each group present their summaries, charts, and creative presentation

References:
  1. The Filipinos in Hawaii: the First Seventy-Five Years. Specialty Publications. 1981
  2. Felix, John Henry. The Portuguese in Hawaii. The Centennial Edition. 1978
  3. Glick, Clarence. Sojournersand Settlers-Chinese Migrants in Hawaii.
  4. Hazama, Dorothy. Okage Sama De: The Japanese in Hawaii. Bess Press Inc. 1987
  5. Hormann, Bernhard Lothar. The Germans in Hawaii. German Benevelont Society. 1989
  6. McDermott, John F. Jr. People and Cultures of Hawaii: A Psychological Profile. University of Hawaii Press. 1980
  7. Menton, Linda. A History of Hawaii. University of Hawaii. 1991
  8. Odo, Franklin. A Pictorial History of the Japanese in Hawaii 1885-1924. Bishop Museum Press. 1985
  9. Rayson, Ann. Modern Hawaiian History.