This unit, designed for a fourth-grade bilingual classroom, was developed with the belief that it is an educator’s responsibility to teach students to appreciate their own identities and to look at their family histories with pride. Thus, one of the unit’s two main goals is to have students investigate how immigration and intercultural exchange help shape a person’s identity. This unit will also focus, however, on state-required areas of instruction by using the theme of immigration as a vantage-point from which to study four events in history: the annexation of the U.S. Southwest, the Mexican Revolution, the Great Depression, and World War I. Methodologies to be employed include much student investigation and reading, as well as various other activities such as role-playing and photograph. The ultimate intent is to teach students to be tolerant of themselves and others and to look at current and historic events through critical eyes.