Indiana Social Studies GHW.3.2
The Standard
Identify and describe the push-pull factors that resulted in the migration of human population over time, and detect changes in these factors.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify conditions that drove people to leave and conditions that drew them to a new place. They compare migrations from different periods to explain how those conditions changed.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given two short accounts, a student labels famine as a push factor and available jobs as a pull factor. They explain why many people left Ireland in the 1840s but workers moved there after 2004.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call every reason for moving a pull factor, even war or drought. They may assume one reason explains every move or that a place is always either a source or a destination.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: In the 1840s, famine drove people from Ireland toward U.S. jobs; after 2004, jobs drew Polish workers to Ireland. Name one push factor and one pull factor, then explain what changed about Ireland's role.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Draw arrows from 1840s Ireland to the U.S. and 2000s Poland to Ireland; attach famine, job, and EU work access cards.
Ask, "What changed between Irish emigration during the 1840s famine and Polish immigration to Ireland after 2004?"
Play a timed card sort: label drought, war, higher wages, and family reunification as push or pull, then defend one choice.
Show a current local job ad beside the 1840s famine card; ask which factor could draw people in and which drove people out.
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