• Write a poem, a play, an essay, a reading, a monologue, a skit, or a dialogue, researched with accurate information exploring two or more perspectives of the same event. One example would be a border crossing from the viewpoint of the migrant and that of the border guard

• Create a visual display of demographic data regarding recent immigrants in your state

• Put together a collection of true-life immigrant stories

• Create a bibliography of immigrant stories for younger children

• Perform a mock asylum hearing, by role-playing the asylum seeker, his or her attorney, the government attorney, judge, and testifying experts (For more details, see “You Be the Judge” activity in “The Uprooted: Refugees and the United States” teaching guide. Contact Hunter House at 1-800-266-5592 for ordering information.)

• Set up a county fair exhibit or booth dealing with refugee and immigrant topics

• Organize a school workshop on refugee and immigrant issues, featuring role-playing and other educational activities that deal with immigrant issues

• Gather recipes for traditional food dishes that represent various immigrant cultures of origin and publish in a class cookbook. Include information about the origins of principle ingredients, as well as details about traditional ways to cook and serve the dishes.

• Make a collage of photographs from magazines that represent the immigrant cultures in your community

• Create a mural in your school or in the community that depicts the journeys of immigrant groups to your city, state, or country

• Map the journeys taken by different immigrant groups from the past to the present, note the countries of origin and destinations and the patterns that exist

• Create a class diary of “mock diary entries” from the perspectives of refugees or immigrants on the eve of their journeys to another country