World History · Week 34 · The Cold War and the Contemporary World
Mexico in the Modern World
Students explore Mexico's recent history, resources, and ties to California and the Coachella Valley and describe cross border connections they notice in the community, such as food, music, work, or travel.
- Students will
- Students explore Mexico's recent history, resources, and ties to California and the Coachella Valley and evaluate how decisions shaped the places we know.
- SEL skill
- Listen for what others value about their communities
- What it looks like
- Students practice attunement by listening for what others value about their communities.
- Content focus
- Mexico in the modern world
- Format
- Partner exchange
Social awareness
Social awareness means understanding the perspectives of other people and empathizing with them, including people from different backgrounds. More social 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
- 10.10.1: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 10: World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World (standard 10.10, item 1)
- 10.10.2: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 10: World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World (standard 10.10, item 2)
- 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.5.9-12 Evaluate how political and economic decisions over time have influenced the cultural and environmental characteristics of places and regions.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.2 Determine the central ideas of a primary or secondary source and summarize them accurately.
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More social awareness activities for World History
- Rights on Paper Social awarenessStudents trace rights from the Magna Carta to the Bill of Rights and imagine how each document looked to people it included and people it left out.
- From Farm to Factory Town Social awarenessStudents study the move from villages to crowded industrial cities and consider what helps newcomers feel they belong in a new place.
- Two Sides of the Colonial Story Social awarenessStudents compare accounts of imperialism written by colonizers and by colonized people and practice seeing an event through the eyes of someone with less power.
- Letters From the Trenches Social awarenessStudents read letters from soldiers on many sides, including colonial troops, and practice attuning to the feelings beneath another person's words.
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