Migration Factors

Massive droughts occur where you are

now living. The inland river that has

served as the water supply for your clan

is almost dry. Your clan migrates to a

new area.

• Push

• Pull

Your clan hunts springbok and other animals for food. The herds have grown and can no longer find enough plants to eat; the herds have left your area. Your clan migrates to a new area.

• Push

• Pull

Hunters from your clan discovered a coastal area that would make living easier than it is inland. Shellfish are abundant there, which would supplement your hunting and gathering. The climate is also

warmer. Your clan migrates to a new area.

• Push

• Pull

You live in an inland area where the climate is gradually becoming colder. This

is changing the availability of plants that your clan gathers, as well as the availability of animals for hunting. Your clan migrates to a new area.

• Push

• Pull

You are living in a grassland area. Some people in your clan have figured out how

to make stone tools that help in hunting. You have heard that more and better

stones are available in an area not too far away.

• Push

• Pull

A neighboring clan has superior tool making skills compared to your clan,

making them better hunters. Because this clan has more food, they become

stronger and grow larger. They are expanding closer to where you live. Your

clan migrates to a new area.

• Push

• Pull

Language is developing among people. You have heard from hunters in another

clan about a land bridge that crosses to a new area where there is an abundant

supply of animals and plants. Your clan migrates to a new area.

• Push

• Pull

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

You are living in a valley near a small river. Your clan has increased in size.

Finding enough food to feed everyone is becoming increasingly difficult. Some

people are starving. Your clan migrates to a new area.

• Push

• Pull

What is:

The act of moving from one place to another with the intent to live in another place permanently or for a longer period of time.

• Pull Factor

• Political

• Migration

• Push Factor

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

• Negative reasons for wanting to leave a place (emigrate).  Examples of push factors are a lack of food or water, natural disasters, a lack of jobs, and wars.

• Push Factor

• Pull Factor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3