Identify the many reasons why people move from place to place.
These are the three main words we use when we describe the movement of people from one country to another:
Migration - The process of moving
Immigration - To INTO a country to live
Emigration- To EXIT a country to live in another country.
There are lots of reasons for people to move from one place to another. There are factors that make some people’s countries unattractive, and there are factors that make other places attractive. These factors have been called push and pull factors.
Push factors are the reasons why people want to leave a place – things that push them away from their place of birth.
Pull factors are the reasons why people want to go to one place rather than another – things that pull them towards a place.
Using a word bank students complete the table. This introduces them to push/pull factors that both Māori and Europeans faced when considering settling in Aotearoa.
Students walk in the footsteps of early Polynesian explorers who made their way to Aotearoa. Teacher instructions here.
Students cover mapping , learning basic facts of countries around the world. Allow a couple of lessons.