Oklahoma Social Studies 6.C.3.4.A
The Standard
- 6.C.3
- Identify the characteristics, distribution, and demographic patterns of human populations and systems of the Western Hemisphere.
- 6.C.3.4
- Examine the impact of geography on migration and population distribution.
Define push factors of migration (e.g., instability, conflict, natural disasters) using historic or contemporary examples (e.g., European colonization, political or religious asylum seekers).
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · 6.C.3.4
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify conditions that drive people away from a place, such as war, persecution, or drought. They explain how a historical or current event caused people to leave.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a short account of families fleeing war in Syria, a student names conflict as the push factor and points to evidence in the account. They can tell it apart from a pull factor, such as a job elsewhere.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call a job in a new place a push factor, though it attracts people to that place. They may assume everyone who migrated from Europe was fleeing persecution.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A family leaves after a flood. Another moves for a better job. Which reason is a push factor, and why?
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs Dust Bowl, Syrian war, and job offer cards to sort into reasons people leave and reasons they choose a destination.
Ask students to write: Why might religious persecution in England have led some colonists to leave for North America?
Play a matching game: students pair three brief migration stories with cards labeled drought, conflict, or persecution.
Show a flood evacuation notice; have students underline the danger pushing residents to leave and name the push factor.
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