Geographic Alliance of Iowa

Putting Iowa in its place

Are Your Electronic Products Fueling the Deadliest War in the World?

This lesson was created by Kimberly Thielen-Metcalf (Mason City Community School District) for students from eleventh to twelfth grade. In this lesson plan, students will answer a series of questions applying economic reasoning to the Conflict in the Congo. Students will apply the laws of supply and demand and evaluate his or her role in the conflict.

Discipline/Subject

World Geography

Human Geography

Economics

Theme

Economic

Cultural/Social

Region

Africa

Five Themes of Geography

Place

Human-Environment Interaction

Movement

Common Core Standards

Readings Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies (RH)

Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies (WHST)

National Geographic Standards

1. How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective

9. The characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on Earth's surface

16. The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

EC 2. Understand the role of scarcity and economic trade-offs and how economic conditions impact people's lives

EC 5. Understand how universal economic concepts present themselves in various types of economies throughout the world

EC 7. Understand the impact of advancing technologies on the global economy

GE 1. Understand the use of geographic tools to locate and analyze information about people, places, and environments

GE 3. Understand how human factors and the distribution of resources affect the development of society and the movement of populations