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:
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:
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Students should have a good understanding of what migration means.
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It helps to provide a list of websites, text, and/or resources for students to use during research.
Hook:
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Read and discuss the sample comic.
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Explore other reasons (push/pull factors) why groups of people may leave their homes and settle in a new place to live. 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 two-panel comic, illustrating the push/pull factors of these migration groups. Each panel should include:
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A group that migrated in mass.
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A caption describing the push or pull factor that caused the group to migrate.
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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:
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Provide sentence starters for discussion, research, and comic building.
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Pre-teach vocabulary.
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Allow students to work with a peer model.
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Limit options for researching tools.
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Provide a graphic organizer for students to use while researching.
Resources:
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Comic to print or display: Comic.
- Character Map.
Suggested Content Packs:
The Underground Railroad
Suggested Story Starters:
