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Siege Mentality: Current and Past Conflicts

This lesson was created by Dave DenHartog for students from ninth to twelfth grade. Throughout this lesson plan, students will research about sieges and understand how world history repeats itself.

Discipline/Subject

World Geography

World History

English

Reading

Computers/Technology

Theme

Environmental

Cartography/Maps

Cultural/Social

Historical

21st Century Universal Constructs

Creativity

Collaboration

Region

None specified

Five Themes of Geography

Place

Human-Environment Interaction

Movement

Region

Common Core Standards

Writing Standards (W)

Speaking and Listening Standards (SL)

National Geographic Standards

3. How to analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on Earth's surface

4. The physical and human characteristics of places

6. How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions

10. The characteristics, distribution, and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics

12. The processes, patterns, and functions of human settlement

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

18. How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

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

GE 2. Understand how physical and human characteristics create and define regions

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