Domestic Migration

What four states had the most domestic migration (Americans moving from one state to another) between 2001-2011?

  1. How accurate was your prediction?

  2. What most surprised you about this map?

  3. What story does the map tell?

  4. Why do you think that is?

  5. What is one consequence of this?

  6. What generalizations can you make about about different U.S. regions (North, South, West, Midwest)?

  7. How do you think these changes will affect the 2016 election?

  8. How do you think the states that lost the most # of people will be affected?

  9. Explain whether this is good news or bad news?

  10. Is it always a positive thing to gain population?

  11. How different do you think this map will look in 10 more years?

  12. What do you imagine this map looks like for international migration (people moving to a state from another country)?


Learning Extension

Scan through these 8 maps of changes in population in the U.S.?


Action Extension

Survey ten different people and find out what state or country they were born in, then report your findings to class or tweet them to @Classroooooooms

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