This artifact is an interdisciplinary lesson plan and learning center about immigration and disease in the late 1800s. I created this lesson and learning center with four peers and then taught it four times to 5th graders. The lesson met social studies content standards 4.1 and 6.3 and science content standard 3-LS4-3. We also created several activities that reinforced these standards. These activities included a black light experiment and a first person insight of living conditions activity. Students were also assessed on both standards through these activities. We showed that we could create an interdisciplinary learn experience in several subject areas by meeting both the science and social studies standards through instruction, activities,
