Classroom Resource

Examining Chamizal National Memorial

Subject Area

Social Studies

Grade(s)

2, 3, 7

Overview

Chamizal National Memorial sits on land that once belonged to Mexico. What is now a park was once the focus of a century-long border dispute that began when the Rio Grande River changed course. In 1963, a treaty ended that standoff and three years later this park was created as a monument to the friendship between the U.S. and Mexico and the culture we share.

Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 2

SS10.2.2

Identify national historical figures and celebrations that exemplify fundamental democratic values, including equality, justice, and responsibility for the common good.

Unpacked Content

UP:SS10.3.12

Vocabulary

  • historic figures (male and female)
  • celebrations
  • exemplify
  • democratic values
  • recognize
  • founding fathers
  • significance
  • national holidays
  • American symbols
  • monuments

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Fundamental democratic values including equality, justice, and responsibility for the common good.
  • The names and significance of national historic figures, both male and female.
  • The significance of national holidays and the relationship of each to democratic values.
  • The history and significance of American symbols and monuments.
  • Vocabulary: democratic values, equality, justice, responsibility, common good, founding father, national holiday, American symbol, monument

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify national historic figures and celebrations.
  • Identify the ways historic figures and celebrations exemplify fundamental democratic values.
  • Recognize our country's founding fathers and other historic male figures.
  • Recognize historic female figures.
  • Describe national holidays, including the significance of each and the democratic values associated with each.
  • Identify American symbols and monuments and describe the history and significance of each.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There is an importance and impact of national historic figures and celebrations.
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 3

SS10.3.1

Locate the prime meridian, equator, Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, International Date Line, and lines of latitude and longitude on maps and globes.

Unpacked Content

UP:SS10.3.1

Vocabulary

  • physical regions
  • cultural regions
  • geospatial technologies
  • thematic maps
  • megalopolis
  • landlocked

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Vocabulary associated with maps and globes.
  • How to use cardinal and intermediate directions to locate an area in Alabama or the world on a map or globe.
  • How to locate physical and cultural regions and geographical features on a map or globe of an area in Alabama or the world.
  • How to locate points on a grid using coordinates.
  • How to use a scale to determine distance.
  • How to use legends, labels, and symbols to locate physical and cultural regions on an Alabama or world map.
  • How to describe the use of geospatial technologies.
  • How to interpret information on thematic maps.

Skills

Student are able to :
  • Use a map or globe to locate specific geographical features.
  • Use cardinal and intermediate directions.
  • Use labels, symbols and legends on a map.
  • Use a map scale to determine distance.
  • Use geospatial technologies.
  • Use geographical terms associated with maps and globes.
  • Locate coordinates on a grid.
  • Interpret thematic maps.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Geographical information can be used to locate an area in Alabama or the world on a map or globe.
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 3

SS10.3.4

Relate population dispersion to geographic, economic, and historic changes in Alabama and the world. (Alabama)

Unpacked Content

UP:SS10.3.4

Vocabulary

  • geographic changes
  • economic changes
  • historic changes
  • human criteria
  • economic failure
  • hemisphere
  • county boundaries
  • city boundaries
  • flood
  • hurricane
  • tsunami

Knowledge

Students know:
  • How to use vocabulary associated with population dispersion.
  • How to identify human and physical criteria used to define boundaries and regions.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Relate population dispersion to geographic, economic and historic changes.
  • Discover ways physical and human criteria differ from one another.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Geographic, economic, and historic changes have an impact on population dispersion in Alabama and the world.
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 7 - 7th Grade: Geography

SS10.7G.8

Determine political, military, cultural, and economic forces that contribute to cooperation and conflict among people.

Unpacked Content

UP:SS10.7G.8

Vocabulary

  • conflict
  • cooperation
  • economic forces
  • human and physical systems

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Political boundaries created by human and physical systems.
  • The effect of cooperation among countries in controlling territories.
  • The effects of territorial conflicts over borders, resources, land use, and ethnic and nationalistic identity.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Evaluate the spatial influence of political, military, cultural forces on the landscape and among people.
  • Identify various ways boundaries are identified.
  • Evaluate the reasons for territorial conflicts.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Political, military, cultural and economic forces contribute to cooperation and conflict among people.
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