Stories of Migration Teacher Fellowship Unit Plans
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Lesson Plans
Displacement in the Face of Climate Change
Students analyze how climate change affects migration around the world, make local connections to global climate migration stories, and summarize learning through one-pagers and persuasive letters.
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Students learn to distinguish between breaking news and underreported stories about migration, and consider how perspectives and authorship shape the stories of migration we encounter.
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This unit connects global stories of migration with an investigation into local Newark history in order to build a digital archive celebrating migration’s impact on Newark and student’s own lives.
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Students analyze news articles on the choices and challenges that migrants face, and use rhetorical appeals to create Public Service Announcements that reflect those choices and challenges.
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Students build bridges of empathy, affinity, and understanding by exploring underreported stories and using persona poetry to amplify those stories, as well as stories of their own community members.
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Students evaluate news stories about migration to Europe or North America from countries in Africa, and use details to create a fictional Google Earth story about the experiences of a young migrant.
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Lesson Plans
Comparing and Contrasting Global Migration Policies
Students use news resources to learn about and evaluate migration policies around the world, and to understand how policies affect migrants’ lives.
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Students analyze migration push and pull factors and create social media posts that describe the experience of women migrants around the world.
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Lesson Plans
The Migrant’s Experience
Students examine the question, “What is the migrant experience?” with the intention of demonstrating how international policies feed migration patterns that have a global effect.
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Lesson Plans
Creating Comics: Using Storyboards and Comics to Share Personal Migration Stories in the ESL Classroom
Students analyze underreported news stories of migration, evaluate connections to the reporting, and write a story that they will graphically illustrate as a comic style/storyboard.
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Students analyze press coverage of youth migration, then create projects that demonstrate their empathy for, and understanding of, youth migration at all stages of the journey to the U.S. border.
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Students will analyze underreported news stories about family migration. After learning the elements of a feature story, they will research and write articles about their own migration histories.
