Planning to teach a lesson or unit on migration, immigration, emigration, multiculturalism or cultural diversity? Looking for good resources to support you? Short on time? Overwhelmed by the amount available out there and reluctant to start from scratch? We are here to help! We have searched widely and selected some of the best resources and useful websites on these themes. Use our simple search boxes to locate the right resource for you and your pupils. Please review any you’ve used and email us to recommend any others at: liberty@migrationmuseum.org.
| Produced by | Muslim Women’s Network UK | |
| Subject | Form time, History, Literacy | |
| Age range | KS2 (ages 7–11), KS3 (ages 11–14), KS4 (ages 14–16), KS5 (ages 16–18) | |
| Summary | Explore this timeline of Muslim Heritage in the UK from the 8th – 21st century. Read more | |
| Description | Created for Muslim Heritage Month, this is a timeline of Muslim heritage in the UK. Explore individual stories and the impact of Muslim communities in Britain from the 8th century to the current day. | Resource |
| Produced by | Migration Museum | |
| Subject | - | |
| Age range | KS2 (ages 7–11) | |
| Summary | A guide with activities and contextual information to be used to explore All Our Stories: Migration and the Making of Britain with primary school students. Read more | |
| Description | This guide is to be used by teachers on self-directed and facilitated visits to support exploration of our exhibition All Our Stories: Migration and the Making of Britain. This guides includes activities to do in the exhibition, as well as contextual information to support teachers and students. | Download |
| Produced by | Migration Museum | |
| Subject | - | |
| Age range | KS3 (ages 11–14), KS4 (ages 14–16) | |
| Summary | A guide with activities and contextual information to be used to explore All Our Stories: Migration and the Making of Britain with secondary school students. Read more | |
| Description | This guide is to be used by teachers on self-directed and facilitated visits to support exploration of our exhibition All Our Stories: Migration and the Making of Britain. This guides includes activities to do in the exhibition, as well as contextual information to support teachers and students. | Download |
| Produced by | Emily Marsh | |
| Subject | Citizenship, History, PSHE | |
| Age range | KS3 (ages 11–14) | |
| Summary | These resources accompany the Migration Museum’s Taking Care of Business exhibition. It uses stories of people who have migrated to Britain and set up their own successful businesses. Students can explore these stories through interviews and videos. It includes a powerpoint presentation, teacher guide and student booklet. Read more | |
| Description | These resources give an overview of how migrant businesses have contributed to Britain throughout history. This is through the lens of 4 main case studies of businesspeople and entrepreneurs with recognisable businesses such as Costa Coffee and Marks and Spencer. Students can explore reasons for migration and build on knowledge that they may have from prior learning. Students will engage with themes such as migration, immigration, discrimination and persecution. | Download |
| Produced by | Migration Museum & Open City | |
| Subject | History | |
| Age range | KS3 (ages 11–14), KS4 (ages 14–16) | |
| Summary | This resource pack, created by the Migration Museum and Open City, supports schools to learn about Camden migration stories. There is a migration map of Camden and four case studies, with accompanying activities to do in school. The case studies are ‘Irish in London’, ‘Kenwood House and Dido Belle’, ‘Arthur Rimbaud & Paul Verlaine’ and ‘… Read more | |
| Description | The London Borough of Camden is rich with migration stories from lots of different time periods. Throughout its history people have arrived here from all over the world, settled and created a home and communities. Peoples’ reasons for migration and their experiences on arrival and settling have been varied. This resource pack, created by the Migration Museum and Open City, supports schools to learn about Camden migration stories. There is a migration map of Camden and four case studies, with accompanying activities to do in school. | Download |
| Produced by | James Lopez | |
| Subject | Citizenship, Film, Form time, Geography, History, Literacy, PSHE | |
| Age range | KS2 (ages 7–11), KS3 (ages 11–14), KS4 (ages 14–16), KS5 (ages 16–18) | |
| Summary | This step by step guide shows you how to undertake an oral history project themed around migration with your students. Read more | |
| Description | This document provides a step by step guide and resources to prepare teachers to undertake an oral history project with their students, where pupils can conduct their own oral history interviews themed around migration. | Download |
| Produced by | James Lopez | |
| Subject | History | |
| Age range | KS3 (ages 11–14) | |
| Summary | Explore three case studies, with accompanying activities, which look at migration to Birmingham. Read more | |
| Description | Migration has deeply shaped Birmingham as a city. This KS3 resource pack contains three case studies for pupils to explore, with accompanying activities. The case studies look at the NHS, building the canals in Birmingham and post Second World War migration to Birmingham. These resources draw heavily on the Migration Museum’s Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS online exhibition and ‘Our City: Migrants and the Making of Modern Birmingham’ by Jon Bloomfield. | Download |
| Produced by | Maisie Waylett | |
| Subject | Form time, PSHE | |
| Age range | KS2 (ages 7–11) | |
| Summary | This KS2 lesson looks at identity and how this is linked with migration, through the use of the Migration Museum’s collection of 100 images of Migration Read more | |
| Description | This KS2 PSHE lesson plan explores identity and migration, allowing students to consider the many layers that make up identities and encouraging empathy for identities that are different to their own. Using the Migration Museum's collection of 100 Images Of Migration and a craft activity, students will uncover how their own identities might have connections to migration too. | Download |
| Produced by | Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre | |
| Subject | Form time, History, PSHE | |
| Age range | KS3 (ages 11–14), KS4 (ages 14–16), KS5 (ages 16–18) | |
| Summary | This pack contains information about a little-know transmigration camp for Jewish refugees during the Nazi period. Read more | |
| Description | Suitable for students and teachers, the pack uses primary sources to detail how the Kitchener Camp came into being, what daily life and living conditions were like, and how the Jewish refugees were received by the surrounding townspeople. | Resource |
| Produced by | Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre | |
| Subject | Form time, History, PSHE | |
| Age range | KS3 (ages 11–14), KS4 (ages 14–16), KS5 (ages 16–18) | |
| Summary | This pack contains background information and primary sources on Jewish migration to Britain in the Nazi period. Read more | |
| Description | Suitable for students and teachers, the pack outlines the various routes into Britain for Jews during the Nazi period (Kindertransport, domestic worker scheme, the Kitchener Camp). It also explores the reception of Jewish refugees in Britain and the internment experience of many of the arrivals as “Enemy Aliens”. | Resource |
