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Geography : A Geography Activity
Immigrant © Beverley Paine, August 2007 [this article forms part of a series on Geography you can buy as a Practical Homeschooling booklet from Always Learning Books] This activity can take as long as you like and can be presented as a discussion or conversation, or as a project or extended unit study depending on how interested your children are and where they want to take it. There is an enormous amount of learning that can springboard from this activity so consider it a 'starter'. This activity can be done revisited every couple of years using different countries as points of origins. Your children will consolidate past knowledge, skills and understanding and will also deepen their awareness of the many issues relating to migration. Have on hand an atlas and world almanac, and perhaps access to a set of encyclopedias or the internet. Visit the travel agent a week or so before you introduce the activity and pick up some brochures on your chosen countries. If you don't already have a 'people picture file' in your resources cupboard it's a good time to start one. Collect images of people and children from different regions around the world: collect images that show occupations and leisure activities as well as photos of smiling faces. A good way to introduce this activity is with a current affairs clipping from a newspaper about migrant workers, illegal immigrants, refugee resettlement, or family reunification. This activity is a great way to follow up interest shown by watching the news, a documentary or a current affairs program. To start the activity gather the materials you'll need as mentioned above. You can prepare four or five cards with the name of a different country on each (or make a pack of them with two dozen or so countries) and ask the children to pick a card. You can choose to work on one country that is topical if you like, but if you have more than one child they might like to do a different country each. Explain that you are each a person that has come from another country and you have just arrived by aeroplane this morning. Pick a category, either refugee, family reunification, illegal immigrant, illegal immigrant recently granted a temporary visa and released into the community, or a migrant worker. Working on their own, in pairs or in small groups, have your children take five to ten minutes to briefly answer the following questions:
You can add more interest, especially if you have several children over for an afternoon gathering, or are at a homeschooling group, by role playing. Prepare role playing cards beforehand: Centrelink official, immigration officer, employer, real estate agent/landlord, etc. You may need to provide situational prompts or problems that need to be resolved. Try the activity again but this time everyone is a child, rather than an adult. How different is the experience? Useful links: |
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