The Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (http://www.aiisf.org) website was a remarkable find. It hosts a number of lesson ideas for all grade levels with readings, poems, activities and interactive simulations. It also has great history narratives and mini biographies of people held at the "immigration station". It's lessons include a range of topics from why immigrate to the aftermath of the Chinese Exclusion Act and its effects on families. It is a great resource to discover and will be useful to me when I teach about immigration in US History. It also has audio and video links to first hand accounts which make it very easy to bring into the classroom and have the students hear first hand from people detained there.
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