Alabama Social Studies SS24.HG.10

SS24.HG.10 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.HG.10a

  Evaluate the impact of long-term climate shifts and resource usage on human migration and settlement patterns.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students compare where people live in different regions. They use maps to explain how decades of changing rainfall and water use can affect where people settle or move.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can use maps to identify places that gained or lost residents. They can explain the difference between a long-term climate shift and a choice to divert water for irrigation.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may treat one dry year as a long-term climate shift. They may assume everyone leaves when water becomes scarce, or blame the Aral Sea's decline on rainfall alone rather than irrigation diversions.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: A Sahel village has 30 years of lower rainfall. An Aral Sea fishing town loses water after irrigation diversions. Predict one settlement change in each place and name its cause.

1. 01

   Give pairs Sahel rainfall maps and Aral Sea shoreline maps; have them place sticky notes where water access could support settlements.

2. 02

   Ask students to write why a Sahel farming family and an Aral Sea fishing family might move for different reasons.

3. 03

   Give groups cards labeled drought, irrigation diversion, lost fishing jobs, and relocation; have them build and explain two cause-and-effect chains.

4. 04

   On a town map, mark the nearest river and a proposed housing site; ask how ten dry years might change that choice.

• SS24.7.5

  Explain common patterns that emerged in the shift from hunter-gatherer societies to permanent settlements in different regions of the world, including types and...

• SS24.7.5a

  Analyze the influence of physical geography on the locations of the early agrarian societies, including the early river valleys settlements.

• SS24.7.5b

  Describe the settlement patterns, shift in gender roles, and job specialization associated with the development of agrarian societies.

• SS24.CWI.9a

  Identify recurring historical patterns in economic development around the world.