Unit+4

**You will present the story of a person, family or group who migrated from their country of origin to a foreign country. Your presentation must include the push and pull factors, the risks and opportunities faced and the gaining for both the migrant(s) and the host community. **
 * 29-02-12**
 * HERE IS THE POSSIBLE PROMPT. TOMORROW WE WILL BE WORKING ON STAGES THREE AND FOUR. ALL GREAT IDEAS ARE STILL WELCOMED. THANKS, YOLANDA**

Extended POI Unit Brochure **TOMORROW WE WILL BE WORKING ON STAGES THREE AND FOUR OF THE PLANNER. ALL SPECIALISTS ARE WELCOME AND ANY CONTRIBUTIONS GREATLY APPRECIATED. Thanks, Yolanda**
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 * 22 02 2012**


 * Hi There**
 * Though Cesar says it is his job to help with ideas, I like to thank people for their hard work and contributions, so I will start by saying thank you all who love your job and doing it so well. It makes every team member's life easier and happier. Juan I agree with you. We have many interesting thing in our history and migrations is one of them. Let's look for material on that to plan something interesting. The NatGeo videos on animal migrations are just great. Here is the link for the longest one (50m)** [] NAT GEO'S GREAT MIGRATIONS CHAPTER 5

**Here is the draft of the performance assessment prompt. I made some adjustments to the orginal one. What do you think about it. Please email your comments to all of us. Thanks, Yolanda** You are a lawyer presenting a group of immigrants to an imigration office. You need to provide the office with sustancial info on your defendants, so that you can guarantee thay they are accepted in the host country. You will need to choose the country of origin of the emigrants and the host one. You will also need to include the following info in your case presentation:
 * AN ONGOING DISCUSSION ON THE PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT **
 * Country of origin
 * Host country
 * Migration causes
 * the benefits for the host country
 * Yolanda**

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I do not know. Again it has to be in groups and this points out to an individual work. Maybe it could be............You are a family or some kids left behind and you need to find a new place to live... you need to show the place you come from, the causes or reasons why you left that particular place..you need to show the map of your route, and tell what has happened before in your history, maybe using a timeline...something like that.......... **Mona**
 * May be a convination of both would work. What do you think guys? Yolanda**

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 * SOME VIDEOS ON MIGRATIONS**

Here's the set of notes I gave you in the meeting yesterday:
 * 22 02 2012**

I've also left some maps at: docs/primaryteacher/4th GRADE/4th grade 2011-2012: Birth Rate World Map Refugees Map Origin Refugees Map Destination Natural Disasters Caused by climate.

The idea would be to invite students to compare the maps and see what patterns they can find.

and there are some videos at the netvibes page e.g. media type="custom" key="12588492"

[] [] this is the video I mentioned about the bees, European and Asian distinctly adapting and surviving. Enjoy. Cheers. C. Vart Tischer

Migrations are not always the result of a pressure free choice...they are usually subject of need and survival. Even though the intention is to improve it doesn't always end up in better conditions for the migrant and / or the hosts. Migrations are not over just because a country is "younger" or "older". Globalization is going on everywhere and it is all about moving cultural relationships and interaction among people and their customs.

15-02-12

WHERE WE ARE IN PLACE AND TIME Hi team I have uploaded the latest version of the extended POI. It is not finished yet. We will try and do so tomorrow afternoon. Thanks for your contributions. Yolanda

Updated on 16-02-12

Here is our latest proposal for Central Idea People know about their ethnic origins through the study of their ancestors' journeys, which helps them appreciate the evolution through time. Yolanda

Sounds excellent and extremely interesting. We would have to find the most important migrations of history to work on? Or would the many migrations both to Colombia and IN Colombia do aswell? La Colonizacion Antioqueña (lots of material on that) springs to mind. I personally would love to focus on what is local - after all, in England, we don't have the opportunity to simply go a short way to find such amazing history which is still vivid and not thousands of years behind us.....I don't know how easy it would be to investigate the migrations of the different 'pueblos' to Colombia, but we are in one of the most culturally diverse countries on the Earth becuase of these many migrations, both forced and chosen........

And which are the most important migations of humankind? The world's first super-power came into being through the colonization of America....The Polynesian islands in the Pacific are said to be the origin of the 'indigenous' populations of South America, that and Asia. Are these the most important? Those are on the macro scale - would we look into the micro? Why people leave the countryside and live in cities nowadays? everyday more and more people are giving up on rural life to make their living the city.

Reasons for migration all boil down to.....a better way of life, to ensure survival.....

And animal migrations is amazing by the way :)

Thought i'd 'throw this out there'.

Juan


 * Dear 4th Grade Team:**


 * Following on Juan's idea of focusing locally, I want to reiterate a proposal I made after Jonathan came up with the idea of working on migrations--at the very end of the meeting: A topic that is both quite current and local is "displaced population in Colombia." Therefore, there would be a wealth of possibilities for inquiry, not just through media but through interviewing real people dealing with this phenomenon in our city, from many different perspectives--as well as though surveys.**


 * This topic, treated as a case study would give students a glimpse into causation, change, connection, and perspective. It would allow them to explore motivations and repercussions of migration; to understand it through time with examples at different moments in history--using timelines as well; to study it geographically by looking at examples around the world--using maps; to analyse the ramifications of the problem, and the different points of view. Lines of inquiry could point in these directions, allowing for collaborative inquiry (and even some personal inquiries) by letting groups of students (or individual students) select their own case studies elsewhere in the world or anytime in history.**


 * Conceptually, migration can be seen through the lens of both the social and the natural sciences--as long as we take care of emphasising the seasonal nature of animal migration.**


 * Micro-concepts could include emigration, immigration, displacement, migratory species, etc.**


 * What do you think?**


 * Warm regards,**


 * Claudia**

Dear teammates Thanks a million to you all, we now have a good idea of where we are going to and will certainly be more productive with our Central idea, concepts and lines of inquiry. I'm finding this a good method of communication, as far as having post-meetings is concerned. That way we build on the things we discovered or discussed in the last minute. Once again thanks, Yolanda

Hi Guys

Since we left our meeting not knowing where we are in place and time, but luckily we do know how to express ourselves, ha, ha, I want to let you know that after our last minute discussion, I talked to Patricia about the posibility of working on migrations for this unit and she says no one else has that content, which she finds it very interesting for the fourth graders, and so do I, so we are good to go. This is what I think we could be working on, but it is there to be polished and discussed. What do you say guys? Claudia? Thanks a million for your PROMPT and KIND contributions. Yolanda


 * Human Migration **

The history of migration

The reasons for migrating

The migration routes


 * Animal Migration **

Types of migration

Time to migrate

Destinations

Reasons

Difference between animals and humans migrations