Grade 2 Spring History - Immigration Stories: Why Families Move, How They Journey, and How They Make Home

History · ECO G2 (NCSS-7; D2.Eco.1.K-2; D2.Geo.7.K-2; D2.His.14.K-2) hist.g2.s.eco.push_pull_factors

Identify push factors and pull factors as the reasons families move

Distinguish PUSH factors (reasons a family LEAVES home: war, drought, lack of work, lack of safety, persecution) from PULL factors (reasons a family CHOOSES a new place: jobs, family already there, safety, schools, religious freedom, dreams). Recognize that often BOTH push and pull operate together. Use the 4-card sort routine on MG-4.

Mastery threshold

80%

Min instances

Typical minutes

Spaced intervals (days)

1, 3, 7, 14, 30

Prereqs

Recognize that every family has a migration or arrival story, and that every story matters

Successors

Common misconceptions

Believing push and pull are opposites that cannot both apply (often BOTH apply at once)
Believing only one factor causes a family to move (usually multiple factors combine)
Believing all migration is voluntary (the four-path framework names involuntary migration honestly)

Exercise pool (3)

Diff	Stem	Type
1	Sort the 8 push/pull cards into PUSH / PULL / BOTH bins.	card sort
3	For ONE of these stories - Dreamers, A Different Pond, or This Is the Rope - identify one PUSH and one PULL factor. Use evidence from the book.	story analysis
4	Choose ONE factor that can be BOTH push and pull (e.g., family). Explain in 2-3 sentences how it can be both.	both factor explanation