What Are The Main Sources Of Migrants For the EU at Present?
Describe the location of the regions marked 1-4
Look at the map – Describe locations 1-4.
Clue
- North Africa
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Afghanistan (and Neighbours)
- The Middle East
Answers
- Afghanistan (and Neighbours)
- The Middle East
- North Africa
- Sub-Saharan Africa
Look at the map of THE Middle East. Use the list below to name the countries numbered 1-17.
Use group discussion and an atlas or online digital atlas to do this.
Image: Middle East - Madhero88 © Wikimedia Commons
Pupil Activity
- Imagine that you are an Iraqi refugee in Europe.
- You are being interviewed by the BBC.
- Write the transcript of your interview or use audio facilities to record your interview :
- Draft your reasons out first.
‘Explain why you left Iraq’ (Push Factors For Migration).
Pupil Activity
- Imagine that you are an Iraqi refugee in Europe.
- You are being interviewed by the BBC.
- Write the transcript of your interview or use audio facilities to record your interview :
- Draft your reasons out first.
‘Explain why you left Iraq’ (Push Factors For Migration).
Teacher Box
The resource is designed to be used as whole class resource from the front of the classroom on the projector/interactive whiteboard.
The various graphics should be supported by teacher exposition based on the text which will not be readable in permitted time to the vast majority of pupils), following this it is ideal that the students have access to the online resource in order to work on the activity sheet (designed to be printed on A3 size paper).
Ideally these activities will be supported by the use of a network room, tablets/laptops or students own phones/devices if permitted.
However the activities are also designed to be used in a typical one hour lesson with the teacher input using the resource from the front of the classroom alongside the resource sheet.
Students can then be set a homework task to study the three articles in advance of the following lesson.
The resource and accompanying sheet is designed to support the LNF framework while giving students key geographical knowledge about places in relation to the crisis of forced displacement from the Middle East.
Pupil Box
Either in class or at home read and complete the activities in the online resource article and in the linked articles in this edition of Geography in the News. Attempt to complete all of the activities in the resource sheet.
What you will learn:
- You will increase your knowledge about issues in the Middle East
- You will increase your understanding of how these factors may affect human beings and human activities
- You will have you the opportunity to learn or practice important literacy and numeracy skills.
You will learn new geographical terms highlighted in purple these should be learned and added to a glossary. A glossary is a list of words and their meanings. You could have one in the back of your geography exercise book, if you have a planner it is probably a good place to keep a glossary, or you may keep a separate glossary or word book. A good glossary helps you build your vocabulary and your literacy. Research meanings using related article content, discussion or a dictionary (either online or a book).
Other articles you may find of interest, Mexico to USA migration, Migration in the UK and Making Decisions - The Migrant Crisis.
