Since the United States music video was so much fun, (and educational!) I went looking through some other videos from Marbles The Brain Store. That's when I discovered there is a similar video for the world! This video shows you were all the countries in the world are located. You also learn a little bit of information about many different places all over the world. Check it out! We have been studying immigration in Social Studies, and discovered that in the 1600s through the 1800s, Europeans were able to travel west by ship and later steamboat to get to the eastern coast of America.
We also learned that the great great great grandchildren of those settlers gradually traveled west across the country to get to California on the west coast. However, there were already Chinese immigrants living there! When we looked at a globe we could see that Asians were able to travel east by ship to get to the west coast of America. One detail the book left out was when did Chinese settlers first arrive in America? If you would like to do extra research on Chinese immigration, there is one article here. Answer in the comments below! |