Y9 Intro lesson to Push/Pull factors leading to migration

1. Starter
Who?
What?
Where?
When?
Is there a
why?

2. Who?
A family from the Caribbean.
What?
Painting by Harold Dearden
Where?
Set in Trafalgar Square, London.
When?
Painted in 1950
How many ‘why?’ questions did
you come up with?
Do you recognise
any of the
features in the
painting?

3. By the same
artist.
Painted after
WW2.
Question:
What was life
in Britain like
immediately
after WW2?
LO: To be able to state,
describe & explain the
reasons people migrate.
Answer this using PEE
Think about:
The population.
Who stayed and who went to war.
How that might have affected life after
the war.

4. LO: To be able to state, describe & explain
the reasons people migrate.
Migration = movement
Two factors lead people
to make a decision to
leave their home.
Push or Pull

5. LO: To be able to state, describe & explain the
reasons people migrate.
Pair Activity
Make a structure that
shows why people might
migrate from the country of
origin.
Think about factors – do
they ‘push’ or ‘pull’?
Cut out the
hexagons first – 2
minute limit!

6. Push
PullPoverty
Economy
Rights
Disaster Employment
Compare your
structure to the
pair next to you.
What is the same?
What is different?

8. Historical Context
Why does the British Flag feature on the flags of other countries?
Would movement from these countries have been influenced by
‘push’ or ‘pull’?

9. 1. Who…
2. What…
3. Why…
4. Where…
5. when?...
LO: To be able to state, describe & explain the
reasons people migrate.
Which of
these can you
answer now?

10. LO: To be able to state, describe & explain the
reasons people migrate.
Let’s meet
some people
who have
migrated.Think about the
‘Push’ & ‘Pull’
factors as you
read through.

11. What is migration? (State)
What are the two factors that lead to migration?
(Describe)
Choose a push OR pull factor and explain how
someone’s life would be effected by it happening
to them. (Explain)
LO: To be able to state, describe & explain the
reasons people migrate.
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