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Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
New Mexico Secondary Social Studies Standards and Benchmarks
Strand: Geography
Content Standard II:
Students understand how physical, natural, and cultural processes influence where people live, the ways in which people live, and how societies interact with one another and their environments.
9-12 Benchmark II-E:
Analyze and evaluate how economic, political, cultural, and social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations, and their interdependence, cooperation, and conflict.
9-12 Benchmark II-F:
Analyze and evaluate the effects of human and natural interactions in terms of changes in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources, in order to predict our global capacity to support human activity.
Student Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Identify political, environmental, economic, and social forces, patterns, and trends that may impact famine occurrence, prevention, and relief
- Develop an understanding of the contribution of different roles to the meaning, use, and distribution of resources related to famine prevention and relief
- Develop recommendations for reducing global famine that incorporate understanding of the complexity of the issues involved
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