Lesson Plans, Webquests, Scavenger Hunts etc.:

A New Life Coming to America - http://hale.pepperdine.edu/~klwehner/A%20New%20Life.htm

Immigration Webquest – includes links for Germany and other countries; Very Good!

German Immigrants – Their Contributions to the Upper Midwest - http://learning.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/german/intro.html

Why did Germans immigrate to the Upper Midwest in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century? What contributions did they make to the region's cultural heritage? Students use American Memory photographs and documents to answer these questions and others while strengthening their German language skills.

German-American Scavenger Hunt - http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/Germ-Am.htm

Online scavenger hunt with 20 questions and links for answers.

German and Irish Immigrants in Augusta and Franklin Counties - http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/teaching/vclassroom/immigrationinstr.html

Web-based activity in which students examine nineteenth-century newspapers, census manuscripts, and a last will and testament to explore aspects of the Irish and German immigrant communities in the 1850s and 1860s.

 

Why Germans Left Home - http://www-lib.iupui.edu/kade/adams/chap2.html

Chapter 2 from online text of The German Americans – An Ethnic Experience

The German Americans – An Ethnic Experience - http://www-lib.iupui.edu/kade/adams/toc.html 

Table of Contents page to online text

 

Famous Austrians, Germans, and Swiss - http://www.german-way.com/german/famous.html 

Alphabetical list of people with brief descriptions and some links to additional information

The German-Hollywood Connection- http://www.german-way.com/cinema/alphindx.html 

Alphabetical index of Austrian, German and Swiss film people in Hollywood; some links to additional information included

http://www.german-way.com/cinema/ 

Other Hollywood Connections

German-American Corner - http://www.germanheritage.com/biographies/1alphabetical.html 

Listing of famous German-Americans with links to additional information.