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Help Fes
Fes has just immigrated to the US with his family from a foreign country, and was excited to start a new life. He had heard so much about America and couldn’t wait to make new friends and go to school but had moved from New York to Oregon and now to Stephenville in less than a year. Fes and his mom needed some items for their new house and headed into Fort Worth to get what they needed. While in the Metroplex, things were different then in Stephenville and certainly different than New York and Oregon. They felt confused and threatened because of all the different cultures even within the same country.
You and a few of your friends have decided to go and find out what a student can do to help FES and his family. After meeting with them, they asked your group to help design a culture learning program that will educate and serve all new citizens about the new cultures they will be experiencing during their stay in the U.S.
You will create a U.S.A Fakebook/Instagram/Twitter poster size profile depicting the different regions of the United States to allow our English teachers to present recent immigrants students with the unfamiliar diversity of culture, political and physical changes of the U.S.A.?
- analyze the effects of physical and human geographic patterns and processes on the past and describe their impact on the present, including significant physical features and environmental conditions that influenced migration patterns and shaped
- describe the spatial diffusion of phenomena such as the Columbian Exchange or the diffusion of American popular culture and describe the effects on regions of contact
- analyze the processes of spatial exchange (diffusion) influenced events in the past and helped to shape the present.
- describe the human and physical characteristics of the same regions at different periods of time to evaluate relationships between past events and current conditions
- The student understands how people, places, and environments have changed over time and the effects of these changes.
- interpret political, economic, social, and demographic indicators (gross domestic product per capita, life expectancy, literacy, and infant mortality) to determine the level of development and standard of living in nations
- explain how political, economic, social, and environmental push and pull factors and physical geography affect the routes and flows of human migration
- describe the physical processes that affect the environments of regions
- explain the processes that have caused changes in settlement patterns, including urbanization, transportation, access to and availability of resources, and economic activities
- interpret maps to explain the division of land, including man-made and natural borders, into separate political units such as cities, states, or countries
- identify physical and/or human factors such as climate, vegetation, language, trade networks, political units, river systems, and religion that constitute a region
- identify the factors affecting the location of different types of economic activities, including subsistence and commercial agriculture, manufacturing, and service industries
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