Geographic Alliance of Iowa

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Human Rights Violations In WWII

Dan Kauble, from the University of Northern Iowa, created this lesson for ninth and tenth grades students. In this lesson, students will learn about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and through research, will see how each of the five countries involved in WWII violated these rights in some way.

Discipline/Subject

World Geography

World History

American History

Theme

Population

Historical

Political

Region

United States

Europe

Asia

Five Themes of Geography

Location

Place

Region

Common Core Standards

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

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

13. How the forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of Earth's surface

17. How to apply geography to interpret the past

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

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

HI 8. Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical thinking skills in order to interpret events and issues

CL 7. Understand how various political systems throughout the world define the rights and responsibilities of the individual