Geography · Week 16 · Environment, Society, and the Future
Trade Networks and Our Food
Tracing how Coachella Valley grapes, dates, and peppers travel through global trade networks and recognizing how interdependence connects students to strangers far away.
- Students will
- Students trace the steps a valley crop takes from field to shelf, explain how changes in a place affect trade and land use, and describe how the network connects them to people far away.
- SEL skill
- Notice your own curiosity and values when you connect to people you have not met
- What it looks like
- Students practice noticing their own connections, values, and curiosity about the people behind the things they use.
- Content focus
- Trade Networks and Our Food
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means recognizing your own emotions, thoughts, values, and strengths and understanding how they influence what you do. More self-awareness 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.11: National Geography Standard 11
- 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.10.9-12 Evaluate how changes in the environmental and cultural characteristics of a place influence patterns of trade and land use.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.7 Integrate quantitative or technical analysis, such as charts and maps, with information in a text.
More self-awareness activities for Geography
- Where I Am From Self-awarenessStudents sketch a map of the places that matter to them and name the geographer identity they bring to understanding the valley.
- The Land of the Cahuilla Self-awarenessLearning how the Cahuilla people used palm oases, springs, and seasonal movement to thrive in the desert, and honoring knowledge rooted in a place.
- Earth Shapes the Valley Self-awarenessExplaining how the San Andreas Fault and erosion shaped the Coachella Valley and naming body signals of fear so students can respond calmly in an emergency.
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