Alabama Social Studies SS24.CWI.7c
The Standard
- SS24.CWI.7
- Outline the causes and progressions of current conflicts around the world, including interstate, intrastate, and extrastate conflicts.
Draw conclusions about the effects of conflicts on populations.
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 use maps, figures, and accounts to work out how conflict changes people's lives. They draw conclusions about effects such as displacement, lost schooling, and shortages, using evidence to support each claim.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how one conflict affected a population and point to evidence for that conclusion. They can also explain why people who stayed may have faced different problems from people who fled.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may count only deaths and overlook displacement or interrupted schooling. They may assume everyone was affected in the same way, or blame a change on conflict without enough evidence.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A district had 2,000 students. After fighting began, 600 left and two schools closed. Name two likely effects on families and use one figure to support a conclusion.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed displacement map and a school-closure table; have them mark two likely effects on families in different districts.
Ask students to write: How might the same conflict affect a child who stays and one who leaves? Use one fact from the map.
Hand out cards labeled homes destroyed, families displaced, and schools closed; students sort immediate from longer-term effects and defend one choice.
Show a UNHCR chart of refugees from two conflicts; students compare totals and note what the chart cannot tell them about families.
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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.WH.10c
Compare the experiences of civilians in different countries involved in conflict during World War II.
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