Year 9 - Citizenship
What is the relationship between climate change and migration?
Why do people move around the world?
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Unit Summary
Pupils consider why people migrate, the impact it has on communities, whether migration should be controlled and what support is available to migrants.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain how migration and climate change are linked.
Key Notes
- Climate change refers to long-term changes in the Earth's climate system. It is mostly caused by human activities.
- These changes can affect human health, food and water supplies, and people's ability to live in certain areas.
- As a result, climate change is becoming a growing push factor for migration, forcing people to leave their homes.
- Some people migrate temporarily or permanently within their own country, while others cross international borders.
- Climate refugees are not recognised by law. Many face difficulties with migration, such as a lack of legal protection.
Vocabulary To Learn
- climate change: the long-term changes in the Earth's weather patterns and temperatures, often caused by human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation and pollution
- migration: the movement of people from one place to another, for example, moving from one country to another
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Anyone forced to leave their home because of a risk to life is automatically recognised as a refugee and protected by international law.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Climate change refers to long-term changes in the Earth's climate system. It is mostly caused by human activities. These changes can affect human health, food and water supplies, and people's ability to live in certain areas.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'climate change'
the long-term changes in the Earth's weather patterns and temperatures, often caused by human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation and pollution.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Anyone forced to leave their home because of a risk to life is automatically recognised as a refugee and protected by international law. Correction: People who migrate due to environmental reasons are not currently recognised as refugees under the 1951 Refugee Convention. That law only protects people fleeing persecution based on, for example, race, religion, nationality, political opinion.
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