• What surprised you most about this information?
  I was surprised that the reason were obvious and somewhat hard to find information about.

•  What seemed quite obvious about explaining this data set?
  It seemed obvious that a lot of this was because of wars and revolutions around the world
• Looking at the overall trend and incorporating what you know about the US presently, predict and defend the immigration trend for the next two decades.
  I think that the immigration trend will rise but not as similar to the past decades because of the current economy. Immigration will still occur because many people want a better a life for them and their children.
• Describe how you made a decision on how to visually represent the information.
  We decided that it was best to have a google presentation so that we could all work on it together
• What parts of group work were challenging?
  Everyone works at a different pace, Personally I like to finish early. It wasn't challenging but It would've been nicer if we finished sooner
• What would you do differently if you had this project to do over?
  I would try to make it nicer and try to find more information
  
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The thing that surprised me the most was the drop-offs. I thought the drop-offs were just because people just stopped coming, but it was cause America didn't want certain people to come. I think that is rude and that we should allow everybody to come. Especially, if there is a war going on in their homeland.

What seemed quite obvious about explaining this data set?

Something that seemed obvious is that a lot of people wanted to come to America. A lot of people thought America was better than where they lived. 

Looking at the overall trend and incorporating what you know about the US presently, predict and defend the immigration trend for the next two decades.

I think that people would still want to move her for some jobs. But, right now the economy is not so good and I don't think people will be coming here at time soon. 

Describe how you made a decision on how to visually represent the information.

My group thought the best way to do it was on a timeline, but we couldn't get it work. So, we thought the second best way was a graph because it could show the trends.

What parts of group work were challenging?

I think it was just trying to find data for specific years.

What would you do differently if you had this project to do over?

I would try to get the timeline to work better. 

What surprised you most about this information?

What surprised me most about this information is the amount of people who actually immigrated to the United States in the mid 1800’s. I find it interesting that people found our country as an escape from their problems and hardships that were taking place at home.

 What seemed quite obvious about explaining this data set? What is quite obvious about this data set is that the American Population seemed to increase at a steady pace even though the amount of immigrants varied throughout the years.

Looking at the overall trend and incorporating what you know about the US presently, predict and defend the immigration trend for the next two decades. I predict that in the next two decades, the amount of immigrants will not come in abundance like they did in the mid 1800’s because the United States are making it harder for immigrants to be able to come citizens of the United States, or even get a visa.

Describe how you made a decision on how to visually represent the information. We decide to use keynote because we thought it would be much easier to present our information on an presentation tool. We also felt that the information would be better interpreted in an organized state.

What parts of group work were challenging? One part of the group work that I found challenging was finding specific events for one decade in particular because I found that the amount of immigrants came for the same reason for a couple of decades.

What would you do differently if you had this project to do over? i would spend more time on it in class and not get too distracted because when I got home it wasn’t as easy to ask questions that I needed to know about the project over the computer. It is also better to work on this project as a group in person because some group members might find it hard to comprehend some things while doing it at home.

What surprised you most about this information?

The information that surprised me the most was how the U.S were welcoming immigrants from other countries, but the U.S ended up having fights and wars with other countries too. The Chinese immigration surprised me too, because I didn't learn much about Asian countries coming to the United States. 

What seemed quite obvious about explaining this data set?

The obvious factors were the United States problems. It is clear that immigration declined in the United States worse times, and immigration rose when the U.S were going through good times. 

Looking at the overall trend and incorporating what you know about the U.S presently, predict and defend the immigration trend for the next two decades.

The U.S will bring in more immigrants, because immigrants want to have a better life. Immigrants come to the United States to be free and have a better life. They want to have an education and have job. They want to start a family, and have their children getting an education and having a good job. The U.S is for them to start over on a good note.

Describe on how you made a decision to visually represent the information.

We chose to do a timeline, because it was visually appealing and easy to read. We thought it was easy for the viewers to understand the information.

What parts of the group were challenging?

The challenging part is Dipity not working fast enough. It didn't respond well, it was very slow. It held us back, because we had our work done awhile ago, but dipity won't respond and it kept changing our dates to 1969. 

What would you do differently if you had this project to do over?

I would make sure Dipity or any other program I use for the project is stabled and working properly.

• Nothing really surprised me about the information other than the fact that I kept finding things about Mexico.
  
  
• The obvious part of the data was that all of the immigrants came over to the US because of better living conditions.
  
  
• Looking at the trend and the data It cannot predict how many immigrants we will have in the next two years however the population will continue to grow.
  
  
• We knew that it had to be a graph that showed change over time and multiple sets of data so the line graph didn't work out because it was all over the place so we went with a double bar graph. 
  
  
• Nothing was challenging for me working with this group.
  
  
• I wouldn't do anything differently the project turned out fine. 

• With your blogpost, include your reflection related to:

  • What surprised you most about this information?
    That everything has a reason and you can tell according to historic events. 
  •  What seemed quite obvious about explaining this data set?
    The reasons why the number of immigrants increased and decreased. After a big historic event occurred, immigrants were either taken in or declined. An example, is when the Holocaust came to an end, the number of immigrants increased majorly. After wars, there was a decrease of acceptance. 
  • Looking at the overall trend and incorporating what you know about the US presently, predict and defend the immigration trend for the next two decades.
    I think in the next two decades, there will be a decrease in immigrants. I think there will be another war. But, a huge war that includes multiple countries, making it another World War. The US will be completely shut down for immigrants and make the process even harder. Plus, people's thoughts on America will change. 
  • Describe how you made a decision on how to visually represent the information.
    I thought of graphs and many pictures because visual is always the way to go on presentation with teenagers. Everyone likes pretty pictures. They will pay attention. 
  • What parts of group work were challenging?
    Nothing, because everyone stayed focus and communicated. We all communicated through emails and everyone stayed ontop of their assigned decades, which was excellent. 
  • What would you do differently if you had this project to do over?
  • Nothing really because I love the outcome of our project. To me, we did great as a team. Everyone did their best and we all agreed. There wasn't fighting or lateness. 
    
    (Project was emailed )

• What surprised you most about this information?
  America today makes it seem like were getting invade by mexican immigrants and there are plenty of movies that say the same thing, but there aren't movies that talk about all of the other many immigrants that come from other countries. 
•  What seemed quite obvious about explaining this data set?
  I think that it obvious that when the increase of population happened a little bit more then it averagely did it was most likely because of one of the many incidents that happened over the years.
• Looking at the overall trend and incorporating what you know about the US presently, predict and defend the immigration trend for the next two decades.
  It gonna be the same for the same years america has been steadily increasing. 
• Describe how you made a decision on how to visually represent the information.
  We thought that it would be better if we all worked on a format that we all are used to using.
• What parts of group work were challenging?
  My last year i couldn't find any information.
• What would you do differently if you had this project to do over?
  I would pick different year to do.
  
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• What surprised you most about this information?
  what surprised me most was that there were plenty of push factors and i though that it would mostly be pull factors.
•  What seemed quite obvious about explaining this data set?
  It dropped off during the time of the great depression.
• Looking at the overall trend and incorporating what you know about the US presently, predict and defend the immigration trend for the next two decades.
  i think that the immigration would still rise despite the unemployment because we still have better living than other places.
• Describe how you made a decision on how to visually represent the information.
  we couldn't get dipity to work so we made a keynote. we made a slide of the year and sub slides underneath them to show the sub-decade years and the push pull factors.
• What parts of group work were challenging?
  finding the push factors were the hardest.
• What would you do differently if you had this project to do over?
  we would have better time management and i would have done deeper research in the sub years of the pull factors.