2.3: The immigrant experience
In this activity students explore the concept of migration.
Tasks
- Introduce the concept of migration to students
explaining that people often move from one place to another for a
variety of reasons such as for work, education or for a different
lifestyle. Explain that the term migrant or immigrant refers to a person who has come to live in a new place.
- Divide
students into groups of three or four. Ask them to devise a list of
about five questions they would like to ask someone who has migrated to
Australia or to their town. Emphasise open-ended questions that begin
with: how, who, what, where, when and why.
- Ask each group to
report back to the class the questions they have devised recording the
questions on the board or on butcher's paper.
- As a class, select the 10 most appropriate and interesting questions from the list.
- Ask
each group to interview a migrant in their community using the selected
10 questions. Students may interview a family member, friend,
neighbour, teacher or another member of the community. Groups may
nominate a group member as the interviewer or they may each choose to
interview people individually.
- Ask each group to share their interview responses with the rest of the class.
- On the board or on butcher's paper, summarise the diversity of the local community.
- As a variation to this activity, parents or other community members may be invited to the class to be interviewed by students.
- Students may need to be assisted to recognise that migration may be both internal and external.
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