Hi, The Tenement Museum just launched a web-based game about immigration history: http://www.tenement.org/immigrate
It's aimed at students grades 3-8. Our hope is that teachers can and will use it in the classrooms. Of course, we'd also be pleased if kids played it at home. And we wouldn't complain if the stray adult poked around with it. This was an internship that mushroomed in to something a tad more involved. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. More information is below, if you are interested. http://www.tenement.org/immigrate Best, Jeff Tancil jtancil at tenement.org Director of Web/IT Lower East Side Tenement Museum Become An Immigrant. Play From Ellis Island to Orchard Street. The Tenement Musuem's new interactive game takes you back to 1916...and on a journey to America. The game begins in old Europe, where players create a virtual identity and pack belongings for the trip to New York City. Once on the shores of their new country, players experience the rigorous inspection at Ellis Island and head to their new neighborhood: the Lower East Side. Along the way, players get advice from Victoria Confino, a young Turkish immigrant who is wise to the ways of America. Victoria even welcomes players in to her crowded tenement apartment, where they make choices about what they will do for money, food and fun in America. >From Ellis Island to Orchard Street has been designed to provide an immersive, fun approach to teaching immigration history. It features: * Primary source documents from the early 20th Century * Period photos of Ellis Island and the Lower East Side * 360-degree, virtual reality views of Victoria Confino's 1916 tenement apartment. * A passport that players can print and bring to be stamped at the Tenement Museum * Videos of Victoria Confino discussing what it was like to immigrate and adjust to life in America. * Postcards that players can write, print and send.
