Departures - push and pull factors

• History

DEPARTURES

push and pull factors

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AFTER THIS LESSON YOU WILL KNOW

○ the eight reasons why people choose to migrate,

○ what push and pull factors are and
   differences between them.

Learning goals for this lesson

What do you
al ready know about
emigration ?

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Question: What do you think

about when you read 'transportation'?

Do: Let each students write down at least three words.

Introduction video

What is the definition of 'pull factors'?

1. reasons why people move to an area
2. reasons why people leave their homes

Answer: 

• Pull factor: reasons why people move to an area.
• Push factor: reasons why people leave their homes.

Name one reason why someone would wan to emigrate

PUSH FACTORS

Is it a push factor or a pull factor?
There are different reasons to leave or go to another country. Drag the reasons towards the right factor. 

PULL FACTORS

Work opportunities

Good social services

Safity and freedom of speech

Climate

Lack of work
and resources

War and political insecurity

Crime and
social unrest

Natural disasters

I know somebody who has emigrated.

Yes

No

Poll

Extra: Ask the people who answered yes if they know the reasons why they emigrated.

What could you take with you on a trip more than a hundred years ago?

Drag these items the suitcases. There is more than one right answer.

Luggage from
a man who has to emigrate for work

Luggage from
a woman who had to
flee from a war

Memories

Family

Clothes

Pets

Food

Money

Friends

Toys

Not everybody is in the same situation when they have to emigrate. Someone who has to emigrate from work probably has more time and money to pack his belongings then someone who has to flee from a war and has to pack everything in five minutes.