Overview:  This geography lesson is developed by Esri for their GeoInquiries collection.  It discusses the various forces involved in the migration of the American West.

Grades:  Multi-level

Includes:  Directions, objectives, preparation, background, and interactive maps

Overview:  This geography lesson is developed by Esri for their GeoInquiries collection.  It explores the paths that humans took out of Africa.

Grades:  Multi-level

Includes:  Directions, objectives, preparation, background, and interactive maps

Overview:  This geography lesson is developed by Esri for their GeoInquiries collection.  It gives a geographic survey of the forces involved in regional migration.

Grades:  Multi-level

Includes:  Directions, objectives, preparation, background, and interactive maps

Overview:  This geography lesson is developed by Esri for their GeoInquiries collection.  The lesson is tailored to world history classes that address major invasions in the history of Medieval Europe. 

Grades:  Multi-level

Includes:  Directions, objectives, preparation, background, and interactive maps

Overview:  National Geographic provides an entryway to discuss the types of migration and people who migrate

Grades:  6-8

Includes:  Directions, objectives, preparation, background and vocabulary

Overview:  The U.S. Census has cultivated a repository of lessons relating to migration, among other topics.  Any geography teacher should bookmark this website.

Grades:  K-12

Includes:  Directions, objectives, preparation, evaluation, primary/secondary sources, visuals, student handouts, etc.

Overview:  This lesson, provided by the Arizona Geographic Alliance, combines historical migrations of people in U.S. history with a discussion of push and pull factors.

Grades:  7

Includes:  Teacher instructions, student worksheets, assessments, answer keys

Overview:  This lesson, provided by the Arizona Geographic Alliance, focuses on push and pull factors in human migration and settlement.

Grades:  4

Includes:  Teacher instructions, student worksheets, assessments, answer keys

Overview:  The Geographic Alliance of Iowa presents a lesson on the problems that the Irish experienced as they migrated into the United States from Ireland.

Grades:  6-8

Includes:  Teacher instructions, student worksheets

Overview:  The Geographic Alliance of Iowa sponsors this lesson which peers into migration and displacement in Africa.

Grades:  7

Includes:  Teacher instructions

Overview:  The Tennessee Geographic Alliance presents a lesson for AP Human Geography addressing the Summit on Migration, Refugees, and Internally Displaced Peoples.

Grades:  9-12

Includes:  Teacher instructions, video, student handouts, peer review sheets, grading rubric

Overview:  The U.S. Library of Congress develops a lesson to compare what immigration and migration was like during the Great Depression and today.

Grades:  6-8, 9-12

Includes: Preparation, procedure, evaluation, oral histories

Overview:  The website, In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience has a variety of lesson plans and resources for teaching the migration patterns of African Americans.  The link presents a series of lessons relating to the Great Migration which occurred after the Civil War. 

Grades:  6-12

Includes:  Directions, objectives, preparation, evaluation, maps, images, primary texts

Overview:  This lesson, sponsored by the Geographic Alliance of Iowa, gives a place-based account of Hispanic migration into Iowa.

Grades:  6

Includes:  Directions, objectives, preparation, evaluation, excerpts from diaries, examples of pros and cons for Hispanic migration, map of Iowa counties

Overview:  The Immigration Tango, a lesson sponsored by the Geographic Alliance of Iowa, turns the topic of migration onto the personal histories of the students' families.

Grades:  8

Includes:  Directions, objectives, preparation

Overview:  This lesson, sponsored by the Geographic Alliance of Iowa, addresses the Sudan refugee crisis using content from a documentary on the subject.

Grades:  10

Includes:  Directions, objectives, preparation, video

Overview:  This lesson gives an interactive look into human migration.

Grades:  6-12 (modifiable for lower levels)

Includes:  Powerpoint, PDF materials, migration video, case studies for in-depth exploration