https://padlet.com/pwallin/nhsq186v45jg Stuff I need en-us 2020-02-29 00:38:18 UTC 2024-12-16 07:00:46 UTC hello@padlet.com pwallin https://padlet.com/pwallin/nhsq186v45jg/wish/452300793 Song from the 90's tv show The Animaniacs. This is a bit dated now. But it is a fun way to engage students and to start getting them to think about how many countries there are and where they might be located on a world map.]]> 2020-02-29 00:53:53 UTC https://padlet.com/pwallin/nhsq186v45jg/wish/452300793 pwallin https://padlet.com/pwallin/nhsq186v45jg/wish/452302059 Make a world map of where everyone in the class is from.
This is to prompt students in a discussion about migration, reasons for migrating to another country.  
Having a visual representation of countries students have come from is to stimulate discussion of the planet, environments and human impact on the planet.]]> 2020-02-29 01:01:28 UTC https://padlet.com/pwallin/nhsq186v45jg/wish/452302059 pwallin https://padlet.com/pwallin/nhsq186v45jg/wish/452302649 For those students who might have a laptop or other electronic device. Having access to a digital map might be easier. Although ideally students will use the printed blank map to colour in.]]> 2020-02-29 01:04:54 UTC https://padlet.com/pwallin/nhsq186v45jg/wish/452302649 pwallin https://padlet.com/pwallin/nhsq186v45jg/wish/452544886 Print this to give to the students to colour in]]> 2020-03-01 10:41:57 UTC https://padlet.com/pwallin/nhsq186v45jg/wish/452544886 pwallin https://padlet.com/pwallin/nhsq186v45jg/wish/452544943 In a previous class, students would have created a survey to ask other students cultural/family background or country of birth.
This data would then be used to colour in the map of the world during this class.
This would work really well in a multicultural school.
It could just be of the class, the year group or the whole school.
If the school is quite homogeneous, then asking the students how many countries they remember from the song and then getting them to colour those on the map might also work.]]> 2020-03-01 10:42:34 UTC https://padlet.com/pwallin/nhsq186v45jg/wish/452544943 pwallin https://padlet.com/pwallin/nhsq186v45jg/wish/452545258 Students should have their own markers/pencils to colour the map but if they don't then having some art supplies will be required.]]> 2020-03-01 10:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/pwallin/nhsq186v45jg/wish/452545258 pwallin https://padlet.com/pwallin/nhsq186v45jg/wish/452545853 Where are people from?
Why do people leave their countries?
What are some of the reasons that motivate people to move around the planet?
What environmental factors might contribute to people moving to another county?
What are some of the difficulties people might face one they arrive in another country?

]]> 2020-03-01 10:50:47 UTC https://padlet.com/pwallin/nhsq186v45jg/wish/452545853 pwallin https://padlet.com/pwallin/nhsq186v45jg/wish/452547139 Correctly label world map.  Gain an understanding of basic geography, map reading, concepts of the planet as a globe.
Begin to identify migration as a broad concept.
Gain a surface level understanding of some of the motivations for migration.
Gain a surface level understanding of human impacts on the environment.
Gain a basic understanding of some of the hardships/successes of migration.]]> 2020-03-01 11:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/pwallin/nhsq186v45jg/wish/452547139