Alabama Social Studies SS24.CWI.7a
The Standard
- SS24.CWI.7
- Outline the causes and progressions of current conflicts around the world, including interstate, intrastate, and extrastate conflicts.
Investigate and explain how individuals and non-governmental groups may cause or perpetuate conflict, citing specific cases.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · World Events and Issues
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace how a person's actions or a group's actions can start or prolong conflict. They use specific cases and source details to explain what happened next, without ignoring earlier tensions.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how Gavrilo Princip's assassination triggered a crisis without claiming it alone caused World War I. They can use evidence to show how ISIS's capture of Mosul in 2014 intensified fighting in Iraq.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may say Princip alone caused World War I, skipping the alliances and decisions that followed. They may mistake ISIS for the Iraqi government or assume every group outside government uses violence.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: How did Princip's assassination and ISIS's capture of Mosul each intensify conflict? Give one fact from a source for each case.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs event cards for the 1914 assassination and its aftermath; have them arrange the cards and draw arrows between actions and responses.
After reading short accounts of Princip and ISIS in Mosul, ask: What did each do, and what earlier tensions helped violence spread?
Play a cause-or-context sort using cards labeled assassination, alliances, ISIS seizes Mosul, and Iraqi political divisions; have students defend each choice.
Print an AP report on an armed group in a current conflict; students underline the group's actions and circle evidence for each claim.
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Related Standards
- SS24.WH.16
Analyze the causes and effects of both regional and internal conflicts in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
- SS24.CWI.7
Outline the causes and progressions of current conflicts around the world, including interstate, intrastate, and extrastate conflicts.
- SS24.CWI.7c
Draw conclusions about the effects of conflicts on populations.
- SS24.CWI.12
Research a current world issue or conflict and present information regarding its effects on the quality of life for individuals, groups, or countries.
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