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Geography · Grade 7

Population, Migration and Urbanization

Why do people move, and why are cities growing so fast? Learners use push and pull factors, obstacles and opportunities to explain migration, classify different kinds of moves, and read UN data showing the world becoming mostly urban. They investigate megacities such as Lagos and Dhaka — their opportunities as well as their challenges — and practise describing migration with accurate data and balanced language.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 100 minutes
  • Migration and urbanization check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, pin a map, pick map regions, match pairs and type a number
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What learners will discover

  • Explain migration with push and pull factors, obstacles and opportunities, and classify migration as internal or international, voluntary or forced.
  • Describe and explain the global trend toward urbanization using data.
  • Explain why megacities grow and weigh the opportunities and challenges they bring.
  • Calculate net migration, interpret migration data and describe migration in accurate, balanced language.

Lessons

  1. Why do people move? 6 steps3 practiceabout 25 min
  2. An urban world 6 steps3 practiceabout 25 min
  3. Megacities: opportunity and challenge 5 steps3 practiceabout 25 min
  4. Migration data and careful language 6 steps3 practiceabout 25 min
  5. Migration and urbanization check 10 questions at the end

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Games to practice with

  • Globe ExplorerSpin a real 3D globe, flip to the flat map, and find continents, oceans and countries.
  • Pin the PlanetDrag the pin onto wonders, cities and exact latitude and longitude points.
  • Route PlannerFind the shortest way around town, dodge closed roads, and measure trips with a scale bar.

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