Beacon Lesson Plan Library
Zones of Conflict
John O'Brien
Collier County Schools
Description
Students use maps to explore zones of conflict throughout the world. Students then identify specific countries involved in conflict and classify them in cultural realms.
Standards
Florida Sunshine State Standards
SS.B.1.4.1
The student uses a variety of maps, geographic technologies including geographic information systems (GIS) and satellite-produced imagery, and other advanced graphic representations to depict geographic problems.
Florida Process Standards
Information Managers
01 Florida students locate, comprehend, interpret, evaluate, maintain, and apply information, concepts, and ideas found in literature, the arts, symbols, recordings, video and other graphic displays, and computer files in order to perform tasks and/or for enjoyment.
Critical and Creative Thinkers
04 Florida students use creative thinking skills to generate new ideas, make the best decision, recognize and solve problems through reasoning, interpret symbolic data, and develop efficient techniques for lifelong learning.
Effective Leaders
09 Florida students establish credibility with their colleagues through competence and integrity and help their peers achieve their goals by communicating their feelings and ideas to justify or successfully negotiate a position which advances goal attainment.
Multiculturally Sensitive Citizens
10 Florida students appreciate their own culture and the cultures of others, understand the concerns and perspectives of members of other ethnic and gender groups, reject the stereotyping of themselves and others, and seek out and utilize the views of persons from diverse ethnic, social, and educational backgrounds while completing individually and group projects.
Materials
- Classroom set of atlases
- Classroom set of blank world and continent maps (See Web Links)
- Overhead projector
- Realms List for Zones of Conflict (See Attached File)
- World map transparency of conflict zones
- World geography textbook
Preparations
1. Make class sets of world and continent maps.
2. Locate set of classroom atlases.
3. Make a world map transparency and continent transparencies for the zones of conflict.
Procedures
1. Ask students to give examples of world conflict they have heard or read about.
2. Make a list of students' answers on an overhead or the board.
3. Tell students that the purpose of today's lesson will be to locate these regions of conflict and to identify the countries involved in conflict.
4. Use the Realms List for Zones of Conflict (see Attached File) to complete the student-produced list of world conflicts.
5. Pass out handouts of blank world maps and blank continent maps.
6. Using classroom set of world atlases, have students locate and label areas of conflict zones.
7. Using the teacher's world map transparency (see Preparations), have students check their locations of world conflicts.
8. Students should then locate the areas of conflict on their blank continent maps and compare them with the teacher's transparency.
9. Students should then make a list of the countries in the conflict zones.
10. Students should then classify each country within the 10 realms listed in the criteria portion of the lesson. (See Assessments)
11. Ask students to analyze their maps to determine what realms have the most conflict and the least conflict.
Assessments
EVIDENCE
From a list of world problems or conflicts, students locate zones of conflict in the world. Using maps, atlases and other geographic technologies, students identify key countries and regional patterns of world conflict. On a world map, students label countries where conflict has occurred in the past 20 years and describe their locations in reference to the criteria.
CRITERIA
1. Students locate zones of conflict within each realm and identify countries associated with each zone. (Realms include: Europe, Middle East-North Africa, Russia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Australia-Pacific Islands, Latin America, North America, Antarctic and East Asia.)
2. What realms exhibit the most conflict? The least conflict?
Extensions
1. Have students analyze why conflicts occur throughout the world.
2. Have students choose a country or region and use the Internet to investigate a specific reason for a conflict.
Web Links
Information on conflict regions CCN
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