Alabama Social Studies SS24.WH.18a
The Standard
- SS24.WH.18
- Describe the interrelationship between people and the environment in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Research major natural disasters and evaluate the effects of changes in weather, climate, and natural resource usage on regional identity.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students research two major disasters using maps, reports, and data. They explain how weather, climate trends, and resource use can change a region's work, traditions, and sense of place.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student compares Katrina's effects on Gulf Coast fishing communities with the 2022 floods' effects on farming communities in Pakistan. They cite evidence for changes in each place and do not treat one storm as proof of climate change.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call one storm proof of climate change. They may list damaged buildings or lost crops without explaining changes to shared work or traditions. Some assume everyone in a region was affected the same way.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Using your source notes, compare Katrina's effects on Gulf Coast fishing with the 2022 Pakistan floods' effects on Sindh farming. Cite one detail per place and explain a possible change to each region's identity.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a Katrina flood map and seafood catch figures; have them mark fishing ports and annotate how storm damage changed local work and identity.
Read an interview with a Sindh farmer displaced by the 2022 floods; ask which detail shows a change in community identity.
Sort cards reading 'one rainy day,' '30-year rainfall average,' 'groundwater pumping,' and 'fishing families moving inland' into weather, climate, resource use, and identity change.
Check a nearby floodplain map and a city water-use report; have students name one possible change to local work or traditions.
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