Geography · Week 15 · Environment, Society, and the Future
Borders and Cooperation
Studying how the United States and Mexico share rivers and a border through treaties such as the 1944 Water Treaty and practicing steps to rebuild trust after a disagreement.
- Students will
- Students place key border and water agreements on a timeline, evaluate how scarce water leads to both conflict and cooperation, and practice steps for rebuilding trust after a disagreement.
- SEL skill
- Rebuild trust after a disagreement by acknowledging, listening, and agreeing on a next step
- What it looks like
- Students practice repairing trust by acknowledging a problem, listening, and agreeing on a next step.
- Content focus
- Borders and Cooperation
- Format
- Role play
Relationship skills
Relationship skills mean building and keeping healthy relationships through listening, clear communication, cooperation, and working through conflict. More relationship skills activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- NGS.13: National Geography Standard 13
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: CST3 Use maps and documents to interpret human movement, settlement, frictions between groups, and the spread of ideas and goods. (Chronological and Spatial Thinking)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.Geo.11.9-12 Evaluate how economic globalization and the growing use of scarce resources contribute to conflict and cooperation within and among countries.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.6 Compare the point of view of two or more authors on the same or related topics.
More relationship skills activities for Geography
- Drawing Regions Relationship skillsDefining regions by climate, language, and economy in small teams and negotiating together where boundaries belong.
- The Bracero Journey Relationship skillsTracing the routes and agreements of the Bracero Program from 1942 to 1964 and considering how workers kept connections with families across borders.
- Gratitude for Place Relationship skillsStudents write thank you notes to a place and to a person in the valley that shaped their sense of belonging this semester.
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