Mexico to USA Migration | Geography Case Study & Workbooks

Help students explain migration from Mexico to the USA through its causes, impacts and management.

This detailed specific example connects differences between origin and destination with migrant experiences, remittances and policy responses. It gives students a named migration flow to use in geographical explanations and evaluation.

Learning Includes

• Locate and describe the migration flow from Mexico to the USA.
• Explain relevant push and pull factors.
• Compare effects on migrants, Mexico and the USA.
• Interpret evidence about remittances and other impacts.
• Explain and evaluate approaches to managing migration.

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Teaching Pathways
The Focused pathway develops the core content and exam practice across two lessons. The Complete pathway includes those lessons plus More skills and Go deeper sections, giving teachers further geographical skills practice and application.

Included Resources

• Focused and Complete teaching presentations in PowerPoint.
• A matching workbook for each pathway, supplied in colour, black and white, and ONLINE versions with spaces for typed answers.
• Essentials Notes with the core ideas written as completed notes for revision or missed lessons.
• Exam practice student questions, an ONLINE student copy, mark scheme and a mini assessment.
• A separate collaborative activity pack with its own presentation, printable Word materials and teacher notes.
• Blooket quiz questions in CSV and Excel import files.
• A one-page START HERE PDF with guidance on the two pathways and links to the online materials.

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Collaborative Activity
Students read a migration dashboard, classify the reasons for moving and use remittance evidence to explain who gains and who faces costs. Letters Across the Border gives them a way to use evidence from the Mexico to USA case study in a written response.

Format And Curriculum
For Cambridge IGCSE Geography (0460), generally ages 14 to 16. PowerPoint (.pptx) presentations and Word (.docx) documents have editable text and instructions; photographs and some illustrations are inserted images. ONLINE workbooks are Word documents for typed answers. Each deck includes content-only and workbook-only custom shows.

Linked Explainer Films
START HERE and the ONLINE slide in each teaching deck link to the module YouTube playlist. Short explainer films are being added over the coming weeks.

Website Activities Included As A Bonus
The ONLINE slide in each teaching deck provides a link, QR code and purchaser access details for the interactive Geography Oasis activities for this topic. Keep the code to sign in on another device.

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