Geography · Week 14 · Environment, Society, and the Future
When Heat Shapes a Community
Exploring how extreme heat affects work, school, and health in the valley and building a personal plan to stay calm and safe in the heat.
- Students will
- Students explain how extreme heat in the desert shapes work, school, and health, relate the current event to the valley's physical and human characteristics, and build a calm and safe heat plan.
- SEL skill
- Use a pause, slow breathing, and a safe next step to stay calm under stress
- What it looks like
- Students practice calming their bodies and thoughts to stay steady in stressful situations.
- Content focus
- When Heat Shapes a Community
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-management
Self-management means managing your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors so you can reach your goals and stay steady under stress. More self-management 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.15: National Geography Standard 15
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: CST4 Relate current events to the physical and human characteristics of places and regions. (Chronological and Spatial Thinking)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.Geo.9.9-12 Evaluate how long term climate variability influences human migration, settlement, resource use, and land use at local to global scales.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
More self-management activities for Geography
- Places Change, Places Remain Self-managementComparing old and new photos of a valley town to track change and continuity and naming what stays steady in students' lives during times of change.
- Living in a Biome Self-managementComparing how desert plants and animals adapt to extremes and identifying strategies students use to persevere through hard seasons.
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