Add a Curriculum Bundle to Your Account!
Please select a bundle.
The Pack contains associated resources for the learning experience, typically in the form of articles and videos. There is a teacher Pack (with only teacher information) and a student Pack (which contains only student information). As a teacher, you can toggle between both to see everything.
Here are the teacher pack items for Modern Human Migration:
Overview In this experience, students generate a classwide list of examples of factors leading to migration. Then they watch a series of short videos about how climate change is affecting different countries around the world, and they summarize the impact of climate change on migration. Next they use a migration database to examine an indicator and geographic region of their own choice. Finally they read the personal stories of immigrants and write a letter welcoming one of them. Objectives
In the lesson “Mass Migrations in the Nineteenth Century,” you learned about the economic, political, cultural, and environmental factors that cause people to migrate from their homelands to new countries. In this experience, you will focus on climate change as a factor in migration.
Objectives
The dream of a better life in the United States draws immigrants from around the world.
List an example of an economic, political, cultural, or environmental factor that causes people to migrate.
Sample answers:
Ask students: Which of those factors are still relevant today? In general, all the factors are as relevant today as they were in the nineteenth century.
