Lesson · Grade 5 · Social Studies
Push and pull factors: why people move to a new country
- Grade 5
- Social Studies
- 1 min 2 s
- British Columbia
- BC5-SS-02
A home country and a new country sit side by side with a family between them, and a push arrow with the push factors (war, few jobs, hunger) faces a pull arrow with the pull factors (safety, jobs, land to farm), each across from its opposite. The family moves when few jobs at home meet jobs in the new country, the video notes that many people long ago moved for land to farm while many today move for jobs or safety, and it ends on the recap "Push: reasons to leave. Pull: reasons to go."
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In one sentence
The question this lesson answers
Why do people leave home and move to a new country?
People who move to live in a new country are called immigrants.
Transcript
What the lesson says
Why do people leave home and move to a new country?
People who move to live in a new country are called immigrants.
We can sort their reasons into two kinds: push factors and pull factors.
Push factors are problems at home that make people want to leave.
War, few jobs and hunger can push people away.
Pull factors are good things that draw people to a new place.
Safety, jobs and land to farm can pull people in.
Often, push factors and pull factors work together.
A family with few jobs at home may move to a new country with jobs.
Long ago, many people moved to find land to farm.
Today, many people move for jobs or for safety.
Push factors are reasons to leave home, and pull factors are reasons to go to a new place.
Curriculum
Where this fits
- British Columbia, Grade 5
Social Studies, History and identity: the changing nature of Canadian immigration over timeBC5-SS-02
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