Alabama Social Studies SS24.HG.10a
The Standard
- SS24.HG.10
- Describe patterns of settlement in different regions of the world.
Evaluate the impact of long-term climate shifts and resource usage on human migration and settlement patterns.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Migration and Settlement
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace how decades of changing rainfall or temperature affect water, farmland, and jobs. They explain how water use can add to those pressures. They use evidence to explain why people move or stay.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can use rainfall and water-use data with settlement maps to explain a change in where people live. They can tell a long climate trend from one dry year and give another reason people might stay or leave.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat one dry year as a long-term climate shift. They may assume everyone moves when water runs short, or blame climate alone while ignoring irrigation and jobs.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A village has received less rain for 30 years, while farms have pumped more groundwater. Explain one likely settlement change using both facts, and give one reason some families might stay.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give each group 20 water tokens; subtract three for rainfall and two for irrigation each decade, then redraw a village map after three decades.
Compare a farmer with a shallow well and a shopkeeper with piped water; ask who might move after 30 dry years and why.
Hand out cards labeled declining rain, irrigation, falling groundwater, crop loss, job loss, and relocation; students arrange two cause-and-effect chains.
Compare 1960s and 2000s Lake Chad maps with an irrigation chart; students identify lakeside towns facing water pressure and explain their choices.
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- SS24.7.4b
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