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title: Migration During The Industrial Revolution
description: Students will develop an understanding of the reasons why people leave their home and begin a new life in a new place.
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/push_pull_factors-001.png
---

**Subject: History; Social Studies**

**Lesson Length: 50 - 55 mins**

**Topic: Mass Migration Trends During the Industrial Revolution**

**Grade Level: 3, 4, 5, 7**

**Standards / Framework: **

- [C3: D2.Geo.7.3-5](https://www.socialstudies.org/sites/default/files/2017/Jun/c3-framework-for-social-studies-rev0617.pdf)
- [C3: D2.Geo.9.3-5](https://www.socialstudies.org/sites/default/files/2017/Jun/c3-framework-for-social-studies-rev0617.pdf)
- [C3: D2.His.1.6-8](https://www.socialstudies.org/sites/default/files/2017/Jun/c3-framework-for-social-studies-rev0617.pdf)

**Brief Description:**  Students will develop an understanding of the reasons why people leave their home and begin a new life in a new place.

**Know Before You Start:** Students should understand the meaning of **migration**. 

**Hook:**

- Read and discuss the sample comic.
- Explore other reasons (push/pull factors) why groups of people may leave their homes and settle in a new place. Explain that over time many groups have voluntarily left home or were forced to leave.

**Activity:**

- Select and research two groups of people that migrated in mass groups during the Industrial Revolution.
- Create a comic illustrating the push/pull factors of these migration groups. Each panel should include: 
    - A group that migrated in mass.
    - A caption describing the *push* or *pull* factor that caused the group to migrate.
    - Dialogue, facial expressions, and actions depicting the emotions these groups felt.

**Closure:**

- Share and discuss student comics, focusing on the push/pull factors that caused each group to migrate. 
    - Was the migration forced or voluntary?
    - Did where these people settled impact the culture and social constructs within the new settlement?

**Differentiation:**

- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
- Provide sentence starters as needed.
- Preteach vocabulary.
- Allow students to work with a peer model.
- Provide a graphic organizer.

**Resources:**

- Comic to print or display: [Comic](https://share.pixton.com/q5jbdqd).
- [Character Map](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/Printables/Graphic%20Organizers_01.pdf).

**Suggested Content:**

- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/1921215932655628288/thumbnail.png) Italian-American Heritage ](https://content.pixton.com/italian-american-heritage)
- [![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/thumbnail-asianpacific.png) Asian Pacific American Heritage ](https://content.pixton.com/asian-pacific-american-heritage)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/1976675054379450368/thumbnail.png) Urban ](https://content.pixton.com/urban)
- [![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/thumbnail-industrialrevolution.png) Industrial Revolution ](https://content.pixton.com/industrial-revolution)
- [![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/thumbnail-victorian.png) Victorian Era ](https://content.pixton.com/victorian-era)
- [![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/thumbnail-18thcentury.png) 18th Century ](https://content.pixton.com/18th-century)

**Suggested Story Starters:**

- [ Explain a Historical Event ](https://story-starters.pixton.com/explain-a-historical-event)

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