Understanding Conflict and Genocide in the Former Yugoslavia

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This lesson plan was created by Traci Lake (Cedar Falls School District) for students from eleventh to twelfth grade students. Students will learn about the cause and effects of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia in this lesson plan.

Discipline/Subject

World Geography

Human Geography

World History

Sociology

Theme

Population

Cultural/Social

Historical

Region

Europe

Five Themes of Geography

Place

Human-Environment Interaction

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

5. That people create regions to interpret Earth's complexity

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

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

14. How human actions modify the physical environment

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

GE 6. Understand how culture affects the interaction of human populations through time and space

GE 7. Understand how cultural factors influence the design of human communities

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Understanding Conflict and Genocide in the Former Yugoslavia