Resource bank

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.

Secondary School Guide to All Our Stories Exhibition

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

How have migrant owned businesses shaped modern Britain? KS3 Schools Resource

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

School Resource: Camden Migration Histories

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

Migration Oral History Project Guide

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

Migration and the history of Birmingham: Case Studies – KS3 Resource

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

KS2 Identity and Migration Lesson Plan

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

The Kitchener Camp

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

Jewish Migration to Britain in the Nazi period

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

The Tape Letters

Produced by	Tape Letters England & Tape Letters Scotland
Subject	English, Form time, History
Age range	KS3 (ages 11–14), KS4 (ages 14–16), KS5 (ages 16–18)
Summary	The Tape Letters project shines light on the practice of recording and sending messages on cassette tape as a mode of communication by Pakistanis who migrated and settled in the UK between 1960-1980. The Tape Letters project includes learning resources, digital exhibition, podcast, poetry booklet and much more. Read more
Description	The seven lessons are designed around the principle that the voices of the British-Pakistani community should be central to every lesson. The outcome of these learning resources is for students to complete their own oral history interview and reflect on it. Throughout the unit, a range of skills associated with oral history are embedded in the lessons to support students in conducting their own interviews.	Resource

How is internal migration changing cities?

Produced by	Royal Geographical Society
Subject	Geography
Age range	KS3 (ages 11–14), KS4 (ages 14–16), KS5 (ages 16–18)
Summary	This podcast, with Professor Michael Collyer, discusses why people move and how this movement is changing cities. Read more
Description	By 2050, it is estimated that the number of people living in urban areas in Africa and Asia will have doubled to 5.2 billion. Most of this urban growth will be from internal migrants. In this podcast we hear from Professor Michael Collyer, Principal Investigator on the Society’s research programme, Migrants on the margins. We discuss why people move, and how this movement is changing cities.	Resource