| Time needed for the activity: | approx 60 minutes |
| Students profile/age of the student: | 8-12 years old… |
| Climate change topic | Migration of people |
| Connected subject in the curriculum | Environment, school, teaching, activities, games |
| Skills and competencies to be developed | critical thinking, content knowledge, teamwork, listening skills, decision making… |
| Terminology, keywords | Environment, environmental, Climate Change, Migration People |
| Teaching techniques and tools: | storytelling, warm-up activities, brainstorming, role games, case study… |
| Methodological recommendations for the implementation | Before ask your students some questions. Students will begin with research into the events of the period. They will use both primary and secondary research sources, will evaluate the validity of these sources for use in preparing this narrative, will organize their research material into a sequence appropriate for this type of writing, will write the narrative (1000-word minimum), and will provide a bibliography of resources. |
| Materials needed: | – Letter, – Pen, |
| Materials offered | Access to a variety of research materials and instructions for using these materials and resources; (newspaper article/interviews) access to similar newspaper articles either historical or current; (newspaper article/interviews) lists of names of people still living in your community who lived during this period; (newspaper article/interviews) tape recorder and tape; graphic organizer; (fictional biography) access to a variety of short biographies to use as illustrations of the genre. |
Activity description, instructions for teachers
Fictional “Biography”:
Students will write the story of one person’s life during the period of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the out-migration of settlers from the Great Plains during this period. The story of this person’s life will create a picture of the social impact of these events and how these events affected one person, his or her family, and the community.
Teachers may want to have students view the entire “A Falconer’s Memoir” video for a overview of the impact of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression on the homesteaders and ranchers on the Great Plains. Much of the story revolves around this impact. Several segments are highlighted below:
| Source: | https://www.pbs.org/falconer/class/human_migration.htm#mat |
| Additional Source: |
Migration Of People