Lesson 5: Migration Map
Specific Expectations:
1.7 Use pictures, maps, print materials, media sources, and/or class trip to locate information about their local community, including safe places (e.g., police station etc...) Social Studies
Lesson Description:
- (10 Minutes) Explain to the students that Africville is a community within Canada located on the East coast in Nova Scotia. Two Black Canadians by the names of William Brown and William Arnold move to Canada, bought 5 hectares of land in Halifax right on the waterfront of Bedford Basin and called it Africville (Welldon, 2009, p. 3).
Below are two maps. The first one shows the students where they live in Toronto and where Africville is located in Nova Scotia. The second map displays Bedford Basin where the community of Africville is located.
Below are two maps. The first one shows the students where they live in Toronto and where Africville is located in Nova Scotia. The second map displays Bedford Basin where the community of Africville is located.
Many black Canadians moved and lived in Africville.
- (10 Minutes) Ask the students if they know what the term migration means. Provide them with the example of waves in a lake. They move in and out all of the time. Migration is when people move in and out of differnt places for different reasons (Welldon, 2009, p. 1). Ask the students why some people might choose to migrate to a different place to live? (oral discussion)
- (20 Minutes) Have them pull out their homework and plot on a large map of Canada where the students and their parents were born. This can allow them to visualize what migration looks like.
Display it within the classroom.
Consolidation: Discuss as a group new learning.
Below is an example of what the migration activity would look like dispalyed in your classroom (Student's pictures can be placed in the white spaces):
- (10 Minutes) Ask the students if they know what the term migration means. Provide them with the example of waves in a lake. They move in and out all of the time. Migration is when people move in and out of differnt places for different reasons (Welldon, 2009, p. 1). Ask the students why some people might choose to migrate to a different place to live? (oral discussion)
- (20 Minutes) Have them pull out their homework and plot on a large map of Canada where the students and their parents were born. This can allow them to visualize what migration looks like.
Display it within the classroom.
Consolidation: Discuss as a group new learning.
Below is an example of what the migration activity would look like dispalyed in your classroom (Student's pictures can be placed in the white spaces):
Materials/Resources
- Book: The Children of Africville (Christine Welldon)
- Printed pictures of the maps: Canada and Nova Scotia
- Large Map of Canada
- Information about
students backgrounds
- 20 pieces of wool
- 40 thumb tacks
- Printed pictures of the maps: Canada and Nova Scotia
- Large Map of Canada
- Information about
students backgrounds
- 20 pieces of wool
- 40 thumb tacks
Assessment/ Evaluation:
- Checklist of homework completion