Alabama Social Studies SS24.WH.16d

Social Studies9th GradeGlobalization and the Modern World

The Standard

SS24.WH.16: Analyze the causes and effects of both regional and internal conflicts in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Assess the consequences of modern conflicts on populations, including famine, refugee crises, and the use of child soldiers.

2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students explain how fighting can block food, force families from home, and put children at risk of recruitment by armed groups. They use a specific conflict to show who is affected and how.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given a case about South Sudan, students explain how blocked food deliveries can lead to famine. They distinguish refugees who cross a border from people displaced within their own country. They explain how recruitment by armed groups harms children's safety and schooling.
Common Misconceptions: Students may call anyone who leaves home a refugee, even if they stay in their own country. They may think famine happens only when there is no food, not when fighting blocks access to it. They may assume children join armed groups by choice.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: A civil war blocks food deliveries, sends families across a border, and recruits 13-year-olds. Explain one harm from each event and identify who becomes a refugee.

Lesson moves

Give pairs a South Sudan map and case cards; have them mark blocked food routes, refugee destinations, and places where children were recruited.
Ask: How might armed groups recruit children during war, and what might those children lose? Write two sentences using the case cards.
Play a card sort matching blocked aid, border crossings, and child recruitment with possible effects on families and children.
Project a UNHCR Sudan displacement map; students name two countries receiving refugees and explain why aid groups need that information.

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