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toc Welcome to our Migration Wiki. By the end of this unit, 5th grade will have built a comprehensive look at migration in the world and analyzed their own. There are a few things you need to know as we progress through this.

=Tasks =  All other tasks will be listed on this page under tasks. ........Let's get started!

=1. Definition = Defining Migration through the eyes of the students: Where have the students been to over their break? Let's look at a few great articles about Chinese New Year..... [|The Big Picture] [|Chinese Railways] [|May-Lee's blog] [|Time article on CNY] Come up with your own definition of Migration by looking on line, using discussion and personal stories. Create a blogpost titled "Migration" 1. Write down what the word Migration means. 2. Explain China's mass celebration over Chinese New Year, and what people do? (eg.people travel home). 3. Explain how this is a great example of migration. 4. Use an example of the migration you have experienced in your life...where did you live before china? Where were you born? 5. To help people better understand, include a photo from the boston globe, or embed this wonderful trailer that depicts the hard, long and stressful migration that occurs for a lot of people within China....make sure you include your reasons for choosing the clip you did. media type="youtube" key="P313uy9hni4" height="390" width="640"

=2. Sticky wall = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Place a "sticky" on our wall describing in no more than 6 words ...........why do people move? [|5KP WallWisher] [|5TB Wallwisher] [|5DN Wallwisher] [|5MM Wallwisher] [|5KW Wallwisher] [|5AR Wallwisher]

Once you have written on your class wall, embed your wallwisher on your blog in a new blogpost titled "Wallwisher". = = = =

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">3. Migration Trail = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Migration Trail where students create a time-line of their own personal migration and share why they moved where they did and what circumstances have brought them to this place. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">In "Pages" create a document titled "My Timeline". Write down where you were born and have moved to so far in your life. Be as creative as possible and include moves such as the hospital you were born in to the houses you have lived and why you moved <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">For example.... Download Mrs Rekate's wonderful doc.

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">4. Migration Analysis = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Using the [|National Geographic map], investigate, use [|Maps of the World] to help you identify the names of Countries.......then complete a blog post, titled "Migration Analysis" ........ answering and outlining the following questions in complete sentences........ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Which countries have a high figure of "Foreign born"? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Choose 3 major areas of environmental migration and tell us what the problem is. Why? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Why is Eastern Australia included in this list? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Where does most of the Political Migration begin(Country of Origin)? Where do refugees go (Country of Asylum)? Post to blog <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What does Internally Displaced mean and which Countries have a high percentage of Internally Displaced Citizens? Why is this so?

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">5. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and “to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories.” <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Introduce the term Human Rights and discuss what this means to different people and what the UDHR is. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> [|Click here to see the full text of the UDHR] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> There is also a [|kid friendly version] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> We will specifically focus on the following articles <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Article 1: Right to <span style="color: #ff0001; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Equality <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Article 2: <span style="color: #ff0001; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Freedom <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> from <span style="color: #ff0001; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Discrimination <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Article 3: Right to life, <span style="color: #ff0001; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Liberty <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> and Personal Security <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Article 14: Right to <span style="color: #ff0001; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Asylum <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> in other Countries <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Article 15: Right to <span style="color: #ff0001; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Nationality <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> and the <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Freedom <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> to Change Nationality <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Article 17: Right to Own <span style="color: #ff0001; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Property <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Article 18: Freedom of <span style="color: #ff0001; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Belief and Religion <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Article 19: Freedom of <span style="color: #ff0001; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Opinion <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> and Information <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Using the highlighted words in red to create a diagram with the word and its definition using the program Kidspiration. Just as we have posted a kid friendly version of the UDHR, it is important your definition is kid friendly, with an example that we can all relate to. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Along with the highlighted words please choose 6 more words to include from the following list: <span style="color: #ff0001; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Democracy, Refugee, Asylum Seeker, Social Justice, Government, Push factor, Pull factor, Asylum seeker, Immigrant, Emigration, Immigration, Migration, External Migration, Internal Migration <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Once completed, post this to your blog with the title Migration definitions. You do this by going to “EXPORT” under file in the program Inspiration and saving your picture as a jpeg.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">YOU WILL HAVE A TOTAL OF 15 WORDS AND THEIR DEFINITIONS ONCE YOUR KIDSPIRATION IS COMPLETE **

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">6. Lost Boys of Sudan = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Our next task will take us to Sudan where, as we have discovered, "Political Migration" happens on a very large scale. Complete a new blog post with the title "Lost boys of Sudan" and embed the following film clip from National Geographic, answering the following 3 questions that are in bold below: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Please note, we are now at the stage where THE QUESTIONS SHOULD NOT BE COPIED TO YOUR BLOG. YOUR ANSWERS MUST INCLUDE PART OF THE QUESTION, AND ALLOW READERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE LEARNT SOMETHING ABOUT SUDAN AND THE STRUGGLE THE LOST BOYS EXPERIENCED........
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**What have you learned about Dinka culture?** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 70%;">What markers are representative of Dinka culture? Of American culture? What values do the Lost Boys hold? How do those values compare with your own? (Possible answers: Markers: music, dance, food, clothing, language; Values: education, community, family, faith, hard work, etc.)


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**What questions and fears do the Lost Boys have about life in the U.S.?** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 70%;">What questions and fears would you have if you were moving to a new place? What differences do you see between Dinka culture and American culture? What are some of the challenges the Lost Boys encounter? How do they adapt to life in the United States (think in terms of both assimilation and acculturation? How do you think you would adapt to life in a new country? (Possible answers: Questions related to technology, cultural practices, food; Challenges: learning new culture, how to get around in U.S., finding jobs, pursuing education, making friends; Assimilation: clothing, improving English/adopting American slang, not holding hands in public or traveling in groups; Acculturation: eating traditional food, song, dance, attending reunions, etc.)


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**What sense of responsibility do the Lost Boys feel toward each other and toward their families and friends still in Africa?** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 70%;">In what ways are they trying to improve their own lives and those of their families and friends? What can you do to make a difference in your own community? (Possible answers: Sending money back to Africa, working to bring family members to U.S.; See education and hard work as keys to future, demonstrating/advocating for awareness/change in situation in Sudan, desire to return to Africa to be business and community leaders, etc.; Create fliers for non-native English speaking parents to announce that volunteers can help them enroll their children in school, research and fund-raise for books and supplies for ESL students, etc.)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Use the following 4 clips…….
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|"From Southern Sudan to Northeastern United States"]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|"Sense of Place & Community"]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|"Cultural Differences"]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|"Responsibility & Leadership"]

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">7. Final Presentation = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Create a slideshow of at least 10 photos, and record your voice narrating the timeline of a relatives life.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Interview a relative and create a timeline of their life. This timeline will require a short narrative for each of their moves. It should be written in either pages or MS Word, and will be your script for when you record your soundtrack. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">For example:

My Timeline <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1973 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">A beautiful baby boy was born in Geelong. Two happy parents named <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Shirley and Michael Power gave birth to Simon, in Geelong Hospital on the 10th of April. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I would live in my first house until the age of 6. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1979 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Moved 2 kilometers to the house I would spend the next 13 years in. It was this house that <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I remember the wonderful bedroom I had and my favorite friend, our dog named Taffy. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Taffy would spend all of the her 12 years living at the same house as me.

= = =<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Make sure to write an introduction that includes the following information.... = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Talk about what you learned in this Migration unit

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Give your thoughts about the unit/project

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> How you made the IMovie – steps/process – and tips for someone who would like to try it

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> What you want the world to know about migration <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Have a look at [|Claire] and [|Patricia's] introduction....excellent examples as to what will get you full marks on the rubric!!!!

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Attached is the Rubric to see how you will be assessed for your unit on Migration.......



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