Handout A: Immigration Experiment Discussion
Immigration Experiment Discussion
Directions: Fill in the graphic organizer in your assigned groups with the answers to your questions into the two categories of economic and social.
(Graphic Organizer in PDF)
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- Why did you choose to move or to stay put?
- Were your motivations to sit closer to your friends?
- Were you worried about your performance in class?
- Was it frustrating to be separated from your friends without a good reason?
- What happened when I took a few seats away?
- Why did some of you want to move upfront when I offered an incentive?
- How did you feel having students from another class come into our classroom? If you found it awkward or strange, why was this?
- How you think the choices you made compare to the decisions made by immigrants around the world? How are these decisions similar and/or different?
- How is it that we adapt to change within a community?