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Duration: 4-5 50min periods

Name of Project: Responses to Conflict #9

Subject/Course: Social Science/AP Human Geography

Teacher(s): Morris

Grade Level: 9

Other subject areas to be included, if any: English

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Key Knowledge and

Understanding
(CCSS or other standards)

Common Core State Standards: CCSS

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.1.a
Introduce precise claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and create an organization that establishes
clear relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.2
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through
the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.5
Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing
what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.2
Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) evaluating the
credibility and accuracy of each source.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.4
Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of
reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.5
Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance
understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.6
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of
technology's capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.7
Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a
problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding
of the subject under investigation.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.8
Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the
usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of
ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
21st Century Standards:
3.1.1 Conclude an inquiry-based research process by sharing new understandings and reflecting on the learning.
3.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and understanding in ways that others can view,
use, and assess.
3.2.3 Demonstrate teamwork by working productively with others.
National Geography Standards:
10 Human Systems: The characteristics, distribution, and complexity of Earths cultural mosaics.
13 Human Systems: How the forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of the Earths
surface.
18 The Uses of Geography: How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future.

Success Skills
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Critical Thinking/Problem Solving

Self-Management
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(to be taught and

assessed)
Project Summary
(include student role,
issue, problem or
challenge, action taken,
and purpose/beneficiary)

Collaboration

Driving Question

Can conflict even be truly resolved?

Entry Event

Students will view Stephan Wolffs TEDtalk, The Path to Ending Ethnic Conflict, and on on online discussion
board state whether or not the agree with the the claim presented in the video and provide an explanation.
Students must respond to two of their peers.
Specific content and success skills to be assessed:
Individual:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.1.a
BLOG: Reflection
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.2
Formal Writing: Short Position Paper
21CS: 3.1.1

Products

Other:

In collaborative teams students will, conduct research into historic examples of conflict resolution, current realworld attempts at resoling conflict, and pose their own solutions to ongoing conflict in a formal oral
presentation, using any digital platform they choose. Using their Public Speaking Rubrics from Mini-Lesson #8,
will critique other groups prior to sharing their projects with other classes. The presentation artifacts will be
posted to the group BLOG. Individually, students will compose a short position paper where they attempt to
answer whether or no conflict can truly be completely resolved.

NGS: 13

Team:
BLOG: Formal Presentation

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Specific content and success skills to be assessed:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.2
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.4
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.5
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.5
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.6
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.7
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.8
21CS: 3.1.1
21CS: 3.1.4
21CS: 3.2.3
NGS: 10
NGS: 13
NGS: 18

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Making Products Public Individual products will to posted to students reflective BLOGs, whereas the presentations will be curated in the
(include how the
group BLOG. Students are presenting their findings to other classes.
products will be made
public and who students
will engage with
during/at end of project)
Resources Needed

On-site people, facilities: Instructor as moderator.

Equipment: Chrome-Books, Internet Access
Materials: Pen, Paper
Community Resources:

Reflection Methods
(how individual, team,
and/or whole class will
reflect during/at end of
project)

Journal/Learning Log/Reflective BLOG

Focus Group

Whole-Class Discussion

Fishbowl Discussion

Survey

Other:

Notes:

1.

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