5A Migration Minglers

Posted on behalf of Ms. Serene 🙂

During our unit on Migration, we have learned the reasons why different people migrate all over the world. Students have also conducted their own individual research on migration, from the different opportunities people seek, whether it is positive or negative, and how it has impacted and changed their lives. Students have also individually chosen a country that speaks of the historical migration behind it, and have presented it in front of the whole class. They will now research on the migration of animals, putting them into groups, and using technology to enhance their research skills. They will work together to gather information in the multimedia room, and then presenting it as a group to the whole class. These activities has and will enhance their research and presentation skills, and allow the chance to educate their fellow classmates in the process. Learning from each other is an essential key to our process of education.

We are reading a novel called, “The Breadwinner”, that speaks about the country Afghanistan during the war and have integrated it with migration. They have learned one of the reasons for migration is because of a war and that people need to migrate and leave their homes to find a better safer place. The story has taught the students many of the PYP attitudes, mainly focusing on empathy, as they are able to sympathize with the main character Parvana, who is working hard to survive and feed her family. She is known as “The Breadwinner.”

We have integrated migration with Math, allowing the students to analyze data and graphs on migration topics. They have observed different kinds of graphs and were able to answer the questions by connecting it to migration. They have collected data on the migration of the different countries that their classmates have migrated to, writing it in tally tables, then displaying it through various graphs like pie charts and bar graphs. They also have conducted a survey activity with both classes 5A and 5B, mingling around asking their fellow classmates where they have migrated from, and displaying their collected data in a tally table. The group collaboration was a success, as they all enjoyed going around and interacting with their friends, and collecting data. Group collaboration is key as it prepares them for the exhibition in a few months. Students will take their collected data and display it on a bar graph, where they have the required checklist to ensure that they did not miss any of the important components of drawing a proper bar graph.