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Geography · Grade 8

Migration, Culture and Place

Learners use accurate terms — refugee, asylum seeker, internally displaced person, migrant — to describe who moves and why, and examine where displaced people actually live. They trace the money and networks migration creates, such as remittances and diasporas, and read how migrant communities reshape places, from London's Brick Lane to Chinatowns. They finish by comparing how different people experience and represent the same place.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 105 minutes
  • Migration, culture and place 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

  • Use accurate terms for refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people and migrants, and describe global patterns of forced displacement.
  • Explain how remittances and diaspora networks link places of origin and destination.
  • Explain how migrant communities reshape cultural landscapes and how those landscapes change over time.
  • Compare insider and outsider perspectives on a place and evaluate how places are represented.

Lessons

  1. Words that matter: who moves and why 6 steps3 practiceabout 26 min
  2. Money and networks: remittances and diasporas 6 steps4 practiceabout 26 min
  3. How migrants reshape places 5 steps3 practiceabout 26 min
  4. Sense of place and whose view counts 5 steps2 practiceabout 25 min
  5. Migration, culture and place check 10 questions at the end

Keep exploring

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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