Why Do Families Move? - Introducing Push and Pull

Quick partner-talk: 'If you moved to a new house, what would make you NOT want to leave? What would make you want to GO to the new place?'

• Listen for child-language versions of push and pull
• Surface 2-3 examples

Today we learn TWO new history words: PUSH and PULL. A PUSH is a reason a family LEAVES their home - like a job ending, or war, or a long drought, or wanting to be with family far away. A PULL is a reason a family CHOOSES a new place - like a job there, or family already there, or a safer place, or schools. Today we read Yuyi Morales's Dreamers - HER OWN family migration story. Let's listen for the pushes and the pulls.

• Often BOTH push and pull operate at the same time.

  model She came to be with her baby's father in California (PULL: family). She left her town because of difficulties (PUSH: economic, family-separation). She found the library (NEW PULL after arrival).

  prompt In Dreamers, what PULLED Yuyi to come to California? What PUSHED her from home?

• What is a PUSH factor?
• What is a PULL factor?

M-2-S-ECO-03-A Chart

Display chart 36x24 landscape showing the two-column push/pull anchor as detailed in media_global_notes MG-4. Children can come to the chart and point to factors as they appear in the read-aloud. Velcro example tiles refreshed each lesson.

MG-4 Chart

Mounted on classroom wall at child-eye-height. Used in lesson 4 push/pull sort. The 4-card sort exercise uses simplified G2-light cards (war card; drought card; jobs card; family card; school card; safety card) and children sort each into PUSH or PULL. Some cards can be BOTH (e.g., 'family' - a family member can be missed at home, AND a family member can be in the new place).

• Card sort: 8 cards (war / drought / jobs / family / school / safety / dream / friend) into PUSH / PULL / BOTH bins on MG-4.

  scaffold Card has picture icon and word
• Whole-class debrief: which cards went into BOTH? Why?

M-2-S-ECO-03-B Illustration

Card set of 8 cards 5x7 each, each card showing one factor with picture icon: (1) WAR with helmet icon; (2) DROUGHT with cracked-ground icon; (3) JOBS with workplace icon; (4) FAMILY with grandparent-grandchild icon; (5) SCHOOL with backpack icon; (6) SAFETY with shield icon; (7) DREAM with star icon; (8) FRIEND with two-hands icon. Backs blank for sorting. Style: clean, child-readable, picture-supported.

• Name one PUSH factor and one PULL factor from Dreamers.

• Add 'push', 'pull', 'factor' to Word Wall
• Preview: tomorrow we apply push-pull to more family stories

• Tell a family member one PUSH factor and one PULL factor you learned today.