Today I introduced new content while reinforcing old skills (I love it when that happens). To begin Topic 2.10: Causes of Migration, I had students turn their interactive notebooks horizontally […]
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LESSON PLAN via TpT: Historical U.S. Immigration Maps & Charts for Coloring *6-Way Lesson Plan*
**Geography Coloring Book Series** **History Coloring Book Series** U.S. Historical Migration Patterns & Processes: Explore the historical immigration patterns of the United States through a series of charts and maps […]
Read MoreINTERACTIVE via Metrocosm: Two Centuries of U.S. Migration
If you’re looking for an eye-catching, attention-grabber, this data visualization of two centuries of U.S. immigration is a fun one. You can toggle the date and pause the animation. It […]
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INTERACTIVE via ESRI: Migration, On the Move
Note: The ESRI Geoinqueries that ESRI produce are amazing, the problem is that you can’t edit their PDFs to remove the pre-written answers for students. Here is a formatted version […]
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VIDEO via The Economist: The Largest Migration in History
This 2:43 videographic explains the migration trends of contemporary China. This would be great to connect to Ravenstien and Zylinski’s theories when discussing INTERREGIONAL MIGRATION, PULL FACTORS, and RURAL to […]
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LESSON PLAN: Explaining Ernst Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration
Students will annotate John Corbett’s (UC Santa Barbera) short article that breaks down Ernst Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration.
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LESSON PLAN: Global Migration Flow & Data Visualization
Description: This worksheet is inspired by the Global International Migration Flows website by the Wittgenstein Centre. It uses migration data over the course of 5-year periods in a circular-flow chart. […]
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VIDEO via FreeBase: Charting Culture by Mapping Migration
Video: Thousands of Years of Human Migration in Five Minutes By Lisa Raffensperger | July 31, 2014 2:00 pm It’s enough to put an old-fashioned family tree to shame. A visualization […]
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Observations from the 2014 AP Human Geography Reading
Once again the AP Human Geography reading was a success. I still firmly believe that this group pf 500+ teachers and professors have GOT to be the most extraordinary and interesting […]
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NEWS via NBCNews: With Migration, Indigenous Languages Going Extinct
With Migration, Indigenous Languages Going Extinct BY CARMEN SESÍN HOMESTEAD, FL – Her name is Spanish in origin, but for Juana Sales, a migrant farm-worker from the Guatemalan high lands, it […]
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NEWS via psMag: Ironic Gentrification and the Migration of Globalization
Ironic Gentrification and the Migration of Globalization BY JIM RUSSELL • March 20, 2014 • 2:00 AM Cherry blossom trees in Buffalo, New York, in bloom. (Photo DragonFire1024/Wikimedia Commons) Higher education and […]
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PHOTOJOURNALISM: Shannon Jensen-A Long Walk-Sudanase Migration in their Shoes
This is a beautiful photojournalist website of Shannon Jensen that highlights the life of Sudanese migrants after the the country. Other stories are included, but choose A Long Walk for […]
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NEWS via CNN: Plugging China’s talent pool
Plugging China’s talent pool By Zarina Banu for CNN March 20, 2014 — Updated 0603 GMT (1403 HKT) Many are leaving China for reasons like education, food and wealth security and air […]
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NEWS via FCW.com: Why Maps Matter
Why maps matter By Frank Konkel Mar 17, 2014 People used to use maps so they wouldn’t get lost. But in recent years, access to the Global Positioning System and the […]
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NEWS via Christian Science Monitor: Why African-Americans are moving back to the South
After decades of moving north, thousands of blacks are returning to their Southern roots for economic and cultural reasons. By Carmen K. Sisson, Correspondent / March 16, 2014 Artist Kia Darceo left Milwaukee […]
Read MoreNEWS via CNN Money: 11 cities where workers are disappearing
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Cincinnati, Cleveland and Dayton, Ohio The labor force has been shrinking in all of Ohio’s major cities other than its state capital, Columbus. Cleveland has lost 52,000 […]
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NEWS via NewYorkTimes: Some Who Fled Cuba Are Returning to Help
Some Who Fled Cuba Are Returning to Help By DAMIEN CAVEMARCH 4, 2014 At Atelier, foreigners and Cubans find food and service that had disappeared from Havana for decades. Credit […]
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NEWS via NBCNews: First Americans May Have Been Stuck in Beringia for Millennia
First Americans May Have Been Stuck in Beringia for Millennia BY ALAN BOYLE WILLIAM MANLEY / IAAR / UNIV. OF COLO. This map shows the outlines of modern Siberia (left) […]
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NEWS via HeritageDaily: 17th- and 18th-century risk of disease through Migration
17th- and 18th-century risk of disease through Migration HERITAGE March 3, 2014 – No comments The fate of migrants moving to cities in 17th- and 18th-century England demonstrates how a single pathogen could […]
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Map via WashingtonPost: Where people are moving to and from
Where people are moving to and from The map above comes from Atlas Van Lines and shows where their customers were headed last year. Most states had a steady balance of people […]
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NEWS via APA: UN: There are 232 million international migrants worldwide
Years later, we still see evidence that Earnst Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration are still at work. -The Human Imprint ▇ ▅ █ ▅ ▇ ▂ ▃ ▁ ▁ ▅ ▃ […]
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NEWS via CNN: Mainland Chinese line up for Australia’s ‘millionaire visa’
Mainland Chinese line up for Australia’s ‘Millionaire Visa’ By Peter Shadbolt, for CNN February 4, 2014 — Updated 1145 GMT (1945 HKT) Chinese immigration into Australia now represents the third largest […]
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NEWS via CNN: Moving map shows Chinese New Year travel rush in real time
As hundreds of millions of Chinese migrate home for the new year, Baidu uses cell phone data to create a real time map of human migration. -The Human Imprint ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ […]
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ORIGINALS: Electoral Geography: How Growing Majority-Minority Districts Effect Elections
When talking about ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY and the importance of analyzing the effects of a changing voting population, the 2012 U.S. Census revealed a change that probably does not shock most. […]
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LESSON PLAN: My Life as a Refugee
A choose-your-own-adventure for the topic of refugees. Topics: Population and Migration, Refugees, Push Factors, Supranational Organizations, NGOs TIme: 50 minutes Materials: My Life as a Refugee app for iPad/iPhone/Android Purpose: […]
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