A group of MPPs using atlases to help them draw maps showing the countries refugees have come from.
One of the finished maps showing countries in North and South America.
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The Task:
To research where most refugees have fled from in recent years. Work in groups using atlases, books and the Internet to produce maps locating the main countries and adding labels giving reasons why people have been forced to leave their homes.
Thomas Skelding & Laura West (The Russell School)
"We were put into groups to do three different things. One group was on the Internet, finding out about refugees and where they came from. Another group drew and marked on maps where refugees came from - the global refugee hotspots. They got most of their information from books and used atlases to draw their map outlines. The last group used the computers to word process the written information to add as labels to the maps.
We learnt that there were so many people from all over the world who had been forced to leave their homes, and that there is more than one reason to have to leave your country: escaping the army, the war, political problems and because you feel unsafe.
We were very pleased that we got elected to the Pupil Parliament."
A map of Africa with information about Eritrea, Sudan and Somalia and other home countries of refugees. |
