Alabama Social Studies SS24.HG.11

SS24.HG.11 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.HG.11a

  Explain how urban sprawl affects a city, the communities around it, and the natural environment.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students trace how city jobs, shops, and cultural events affect travel and spending in nearby communities. They explain how building outward changes traffic, services, housing, and the natural environment.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Given a map of new development, a student can identify effects on the city and nearby towns. They can explain how jobs or events draw people across city lines, and how new roads and homes affect farmland, habitat, or runoff.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may treat sprawl as any population growth, rather than building that spreads onto land at a city's edge. They may assume new shops only help the city, or that paving farmland affects traffic but not water and wildlife.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: A city adds a shopping district, a music venue, and 400 homes on former farmland. Name one effect on the city, a nearby town, and the environment. Explain how shopping or music could draw people across city lines.

1. 01

   Give pairs a printed city map; have them mark a new subdivision, trace commute routes, and shade farmland replaced by roads and houses.

2. 02

   Ask: Who gains and who pays when a city opens a concert venue and nearby subdivisions grow? Write two claims with evidence.

3. 03

   Hand groups six impact cards, such as longer commutes and lost farmland; have them sort by city, nearby towns, or environment.

4. 04

   Use a local transit map and event calendar to trace how a downtown festival brings visitors and spending from nearby towns.

• SS24.WH.17

  Analyze the effects of economic interdependence and globalization on places and their populations.

• SS24.HG.5

  Explain how the cultural landscape of a region reflects cultural traits, economic status, and preferences of its inhabitants.

• SS24.7.2

  Analyze how human interaction with the environment, location, movement, place, and region affect cultural, economic, and social conditions for those living in a...

• SS24.US1.17a

  Summarize social, economic, and cultural consequences of urbanization for American society, including changes in living and working conditions, the emergence of...