Departures - a history of transportation

DEPARTURES
a history of transportation
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DEPARTURES
a history of transportation

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British emigration has been one of the largest movements of people in modern history. Tens of millions of people have left the British Isles over the past 400 years. Today, some 75 million people across the world self-identify as having British ancestry, greater than the population of the UK itself.
But while immigration dominates debates, Britain’s emigration story is often overlooked. Why is this? Who are the many millions who have departed these shores and why did they go? Can exploring their motivations help us better understand the motivations of people who arrive? What impact has this mass movement had on the world – and on Britain?
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AFTER THIS LESSON YOU WILL KNOW
○ six different ways of transportation,
○ how the different possibilities of travelling
   were possible.

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What do you
already know about
transportation ?

Slide 4 - Mind map

Mindmap

Question: What do you think
about when you read 'transportation'?
Do: Let each students write down at least three words.

How did most people two hundred years ago?
A
boat
B
carriage
C
walking
D
airplane

Slide 5 - Quiz

Hundreds of years most people walked to their destinations (a destination is the place you're trying to get to on your trip). But people also used animals to travel. Horses were trained to carry riders and eventually pull wagons and carriages. A carriage, also called a buggy, is a vehicle like a wagon.

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Introduction video

Why do people travel?

Slide 7 - Open question

Question: Why do people migrate?
Answer: 
  • economic migration - moving to find work or follow a particular career path
  • social migration - moving somewhere for a better quality of life or to be closer to family or friends
  • political migration - moving to escape political persecution or war
  • environmental causes of migration include natural disasters such as flooding
Do: Compare the pupils' answers to why people used to travel. People travel to move to different places. People use different forms of transportation for different reasons: because it's a faster way of transportation, because it's eco-friendlier. 
Riverboats are invented
with oars.
3500 BC
3500 BC
Fixed wheels on carts were invented. The wheels were first used to make pottery. Years later they began to be used for vehicles such as a chariot.

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Timeline
There were different inventions build to travel faster and easier. In this timeline we will introduce the inventions in order of origin. People were and are able to travel faster and easier with these new ways of transportation.
Steamboat
In 1783 the first practical steamboat was invented.
Modern bicycles
are invented in 1790. 
1790
1783
In 1769 the Watt steam engine changed everything.
Boats were among the first to take advantage of steam-generated power.
A German baron named Karl von Drais made the first major developments for the bicycle we know today in 1817. This wooden prototype didn’t include brakes or pedals. Instead, riders propelled it forward by pushing off from the ground with their feet.

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Timeline
There were different inventions build to travel faster and easier. In this timeline we will introduce the inventions in order of origin. People were and are able to travel faster and easier with these new ways of transportation.
The first steam train was built in the United Kingdom in 1804 by Richard Trevithick. 
In 1903, the Wright Brothers invent and fly the first
engined airplane
1903
1804
People used to be worried that they wouldn't be able to breath while riding at such speed. By the 1850's people were riding at unthinkable speeds of 80 km/h or more.

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Timeline
There were different inventions build to travel faster and easier. In this timeline we will introduce the inventions in order of origin. People were and are able to travel faster and easier with these new ways of transportation.
These inventions have had a lasting impact on the way we travel around the world.
Put them in the right order on the timeline.
3500 BC
1783
1790
1804
1903

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What could you take with you on a trip more than a hundred years ago?
Drag these items the suitcases.
Luggage from a wealthy family
Luggage from an enslaved person
Memories
Family
Clothes
Pets
Food
Money
Friends
Toys

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Not everybody was as wealthy and furtonate to travel with all their belongings, friends and family. Imagine what a wealthy family could bring along on their family trip and what an enslaved person could take with him/her on a slaveship.
What did you learn from this lesson?
Turn the spinner and find out how much you know.

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