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Title:
| Migrant Farm Workers |
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Description:
| Read real-life accounts about farm workers who migrate to find work. Includes information about the past and present state of migrant workers. |
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Grade Level:
| 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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Resource Links:
| America's Farm Workers Home Page
This site is full of information about the life of migrant workers. Also includes descriptions of their housing problems, work conditions, health problems, and their children.
We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years
Learn about the struggle of migrant workers throughout history.
Illinois' Farmworkers
See a map of farm workers migrating to Illinois. Learn the difference between migrant and seasonal farm workers.
Migrant Worker Pictures
This site provides many pictures taken during the Dust Bowl of migrant workers. The text tells about the photographer's fight to get the pictures published.
Interview with Migrant Workers
Seattle reporter Rod Minott talks to various people involved with migrant workers. This site has only text, but there is a lot of information.
Migrant Workers' Children
Read about migrant childrens' lifestyles. Click on the names under "Migrant Life Through the Eyes of the Child" to read the stories from three children.
Dorothea Lange Photographs
Check out the pictures of migrant workers by clicking on the photo thumbnails that link to bigger pictures. There are seven pages of photographs. Click on a page number at the top to see more.
Human Rights and Migrant Workers
This is a list of the basic human rights that migrant workers should have. Below this list are descriptions of ways the government ensures these rights. (The bottom half of the page requires advanced vocabulary skills.)
Amelia's Road Activites
This site offers activities to do with the book written by Linda Jacobs Altman. The story is about a migrant family and the crops grown in California.
Field of Dreams
Read a story of a migrant family and their hopes for the future.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.7, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 3, 5, 6
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