Indigenous communities in coastal Alaska are facing the impacts of climate change as rising sea levels and changing weather patterns threaten to disrupt and destroy entire villages. If coordinated relocation efforts are not successful, residents risk losing their community and their traditional lifestyle. Lesson plan with photo essay.

This resourch will help your students to practice use with Culture Grams in the Utah Online Library. This will help them build a foundation of what they need to have to use the resource effectively through completing a variety of tasks. 

This lesson plan aims at incorporating technology, in this case the Pages app on iPad, to create pamphlets that demonstrate depth of knowledge of social studies content. 

Civil war in Syria has contributed to an unprecedented global refugee crisis. The response from varying countries has been inconsistent, calling into question how our world community responds to the most basic human needs for safety, shelter, and security. Lesson plan with photo essay. (English and Spanish)

This story map takes students through a brief history of Japanese Americans in the United States before WWII. It aso tells the story of the Executive Order 9066 and the removal of those of Japanese ancestry from the west coast into internment camps across the intermountain west. It also discusses the camps and the legacy after the war's end.

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Students participate in a “push/pull” simulation to identify reasons people migrate from one place to another and analyze the similarities and differences between two real-world migrations.

A fun lesson to teach students about the push and pull factors of migration that includes an activity for all students to participate in.

Millions of Syrian refugees are leaving their war-torn home in search of safety and opportunity in other countries. Those who have suffered the challenges of starting anew can have a powerful impact helping others resettle. Lesson plan with a short documentary film. (English and Spanish)

Part of the Census. Bureau Interactive Maps collection, this Census Flows Mapper is worth highlighting on its own. Use it with students to allow exploration of internal migration patterns of United states.

Coastal areas are drastically impacted by the effects of climate change. Communities are witnessing rising sea levels, stronger storms, and coastal erosion, forcing residents to leave their homes. Lesson plan with a short documentary film. (English and Spanish)

In this mini-lesson, students reflect on stories of migration and learn about migration from El Salvador to the United States as a means of exploring the underlying factors that drive migration.