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New York Times Immigration Explorer Select a foreign-born group to see how they settled across the United States. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html?hp

Library of Congress: Immigration Includes lesson suggestions and resources, online immigration vocabulary games (including one on the origin of English words), interviews, and a collection of recipes from around the world. You can also use the navigation at left to learn more about a particular immigrant group. http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/introduction.html

Coming to America: Immigrant Voices (Thinkquest) This Thinkquest site includes actual interviews with immigrants. They tell their stories and share their immigration experiences. Also included in the site are Immigration Laws, immigration history, recipes, and more. http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212700/final_website/?tqskip1=1

Scholastic: Immigration Stories of Yesterday & Today Find out what it means to come to the United States as an immigrant from the early 20th century through the early 21st http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/index.htm

Immigration and Industrialization Upon entering this interactive educational website, students in grades 4-8 are transformed into historians as they explore primary source photographs, letters and artifacts related to the themes of immigration and agriculture-based industrialization in the heartland. http://campsilos.org/excursions/grout/one/index.htm

History Channel: Ellis Island As you move through this online exhibit, you'll experience Ellis Island as one of the over 12 million people who landed here, seeking to pass through this gateway to a life where hope replaced fear. http://www.history.com/minisites/ellisisland/