ELEMENTARY

'MIGRATION STORIES' GRADE 5

OVERVIEW OF LESSON

Fifth-grade students will inquire into personal stories concerning homes and journeys while making a comic book that narrates a migration story. The questions used for discussions and creating art were: Why is migration like it is? What is culture/diversity/immigration?

TEACHING MATERIALS

Learning outcomes: Students will find facts about why people migrate, altering the existing environment, culture and their own lives and learn how to make an accordion book, draw comic characters and structure an idea for a story.

Age group: Upper primary school

Duration: 8 lessons, 45 minutes each

You will need: White craft paper, construction color paper

Tools: Scissors, masking tape, pencils, markers

Technique: Comic and accordion book


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Publication

Balzi, L., & Storlie Kristoffersen, C. (2019).Integrating Contemporary Art in the PYP IB Curriculum to Open Dialogues About Cultural Diversity in Norway. INSEA IMAG, (10), 36-49. https://doi.org/10.24981/2414-3332-10.2020-6

STUDENTS WORKS

Student migration story 1: Relatives fleeing Norway during WWII

Student migration story 2: Relatives fleeing Congo

Student migration story 3: Relatives fleeing Eritrea to Sudan

Students during a peer feedback session.