CI.11 Analyze the lasting impact of history on contemporary issues (e.g., Treaty of Versailles, Cold War, ethnic cleansing, urbanization, human rights, immigration, modern medicine). C, H, P

What am I learning today?

How history has impacted our life today

Why am I learning this?

Events in the past have shaped the world and our country today. We need to know the how and why.

How will I know I learned this?

When you understand how past events shape the world around you today

Ethnic Cleansing

What’s the difference between genocide and ethnic cleansing?

Urbanization

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/urbanization/

https://ourworldindata.org/urbanization

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

The Rose Diagram

CRISPR

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Contemporary Issues Standards

Our Standards CI – Contemporary Issues – Students will use inquiry skills to learn about the issues that impact the contemporary world and engage in research and problem solving in

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Contemporary Issues – Lesson 11 – CI.10

CI.10 Describe the relationship and causal factors between historic events and contemporary issues (e.g., 2011 Japanese earthquake, Chernobyl, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Great Chicago Fire, world epidemics). C, H What am

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Contemporary Issues – Civil Rights Movement

Bellwork/Group Work With your neighbor, identify your current knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement. Ask each other these questions: Who? When? Why? Where? How? Our Standard CI.09 Analyze the causes

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