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    Migration During The Industrial Revolution

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    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: 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.

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