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MYSTERY

Why Do Animals Move to New Homes?

K-5
One class period
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Learning Objectives

  • Explain migration
  • Identify push and pull factors
  • Describe how push and pull factors contribute to migration
  • Discuss and support reasons to explain: “Why do animals move to new homes?”

 

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Overview

Historians make connections. In this lesson, students will be introduced to migration vocabulary as they learn about the migration patterns of animals they are familiar with and a few that may be new. Students connect these animals to the push and pull factors that cause them to migrate as they answer the mystery question: "Why do animals move to new homes?" Have students complete this lesson before moving into more inquiry in Lesson 2.

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