For a pair of activities with a bilingual group of kids whose families may or may not have computer access, I created a take-home handout with QR codes for three online resources. QR codes make websites much more accessible to people who use a phone to access the internet. 

    In my case, I chose read-aloud videos by Enchanted Circle Theater's Open Mind StoryTime / Miente abierta Tiempo de Cuento. This way, kids can hear the story that we read aloud together to introduce the primary source activity again and again at home if their grownups have a smart phone to scan the QR code and play the story. http://www.enchantedcircletheater.com/teacher-resource/curriculum-library/

    I got the idea of hands-on activities to use with kids to connect them with Statue of Liberty primary sources from the Enchanted Circle page, where several read-alouds have paired activities. The kids made their own statues out of aluminum foil after listening to "Her Right Foot," about the Statue of Liberty. They will make books after listening to "Tomas and the Library Lady" in both English and Spanish; in another setting, we might have QR codes to primary source images from the Library of Congress that connect Tomas's migrant family, who travels every year between Texas and Iowa to do farm work, just as the children in this particular program do. 

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    https://tpsteachersnetwork.org/teaching-english-language-learners/an-old-album-for-a-new-teacher-the-statue-of-liberty https://tpsteachersnetwork.org/tps-mississippi/statue-of-liberty was the TPS album that provided the primary source images of the Statue of Liberty to pair with Her Right Foot. I have a goal of assembling an album of images that builds on the positive message of Tomas and the Library Lady using Library of Congress resources. 
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    I love the idea of using QR codes in your take home lessons! Thanks for the great tips 

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