Alabama Social Studies SS24.CWI.7b
The Standard
- SS24.CWI.7
- Outline the causes and progressions of current conflicts around the world, including interstate, intrastate, and extrastate conflicts.
Formulate possible means to prevent and resolve modern conflicts.
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 identify what caused a conflict and who is affected. They propose ways to prevent more fighting and resolve the dispute. They explain who would take each step and why it might work.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a short case study, a student separates the immediate trigger from longer tensions. They propose a practical prevention step and a resolution plan, name the people involved, and identify one obstacle.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think a ceasefire settles the dispute that caused the fighting. They may suggest that both sides should talk without saying who meets, what they negotiate, or how anyone checks an agreement.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Two countries dispute river water during a drought, and border protests have turned violent. Name one step to prevent more violence and one to settle the dispute. Say who acts and how they would check the agreement.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
On a paper Nile River map, have groups place farm, city, and dam cards, then draft a water-sharing rule for three countries.
Ask: Would a ceasefire settle a river-water dispute? Write two sentences naming another step and who must agree to it.
Give pairs three case cards: drought warning, border protest, and broken ceasefire. Have them match each with a specific action and actor.
Bring a printed news article about the Nile dam dispute; students underline one proposed agreement and write who would check compliance.
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Related Standards
- SS24.CWI.7a
Investigate and explain how individuals and non-governmental groups may cause or perpetuate conflict, citing specific cases.
- SS24.WH.16
Analyze the causes and effects of both regional and internal conflicts in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
- SS24.WH.16d
Assess the consequences of modern conflicts on populations, including famine, refugee crises, and the use of child soldiers.
- SS24.CWI.12a
Construct a possible solution to a global issue or conflict.
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