Idaho Social Studies 6-9.WG.2.15

Social StudiesGrades 6–9Geography

The Standard

Describe various views that affect environmental issues in regions throughout the world.

Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students identify who is affected by an environmental decision and explain what each group wants. They compare how those views shape choices in places such as the Amazon rainforest and Mekong River.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can explain why a Mekong fisher might oppose a dam that a power company supports. They can describe how building the dam could change the river and affect both groups.
Common Misconceptions: Students may assume everyone living in a region agrees. They may name what a group wants without explaining how its choice could change the environment.
How to Assess It: Give students four cards: an Amazon rancher wants pasture, an Amazon Indigenous leader wants intact forest, a Mekong power company wants a dam, and a Mekong fisher wants migrating fish. Ask which choice each would support and what environmental change might follow.

Lesson moves

Give pairs an Amazon map; have them mark land a cattle rancher might clear and land an Indigenous community might protect.
Ask: Why might a Mekong fisher oppose a dam that a power company supports? Write each group's reason and one possible river change.
Play a card sort matching four Amazon and Mekong stakeholder cards to proposed choices and likely environmental effects.
Show a local proposal to build on open land; have students write a developer's view, a nearby resident's view, and one possible habitat change.

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