Global Settlement: Patterns and
Sustainability:
A3.3 identify significant land-use issues (e.g., competition for
land for agriculture, industry, housing, transportation, recreation,
wilderness areas; land claims by indigenous groups; development
in ecologically sensitive areas), and describe responses of
various groups to these issues (e.g., municipal,
state/provincial/regional, and/or national governments; local
residents; environmental, indigenous, or grass- roots groups; nongovernmental organizations)
Sample questions: “When there is competition for land, what
can stakeholders do to try to ensure their voices are heard?
Are some stake- holders more likely than others to be heard?
Why might that be the case?” “What criteria should be used
to make a decision when the same space might be used for
agriculture, recreation, conservation, or a new housing
development?”
Learning Goal: We can critically analyze international land
disputes and describe the responses of the various groups
to these issues.
Success Criteria:
I can locate the border issue and display it on a map
I can research the dispute and gather important information
and supporting details
I can effectively and accurately communicate the two sides
of conflict
I can take the two sides of the land dispute and
communicate in my own words the viewpoints of each side
I can provide my own personal view on the issue and how I
think the dispute could be resolved
Some ideas for what you might do:
- create a photo essay with captions displaying the
various arguments of the two sides
- create a fictitious debate where one partner represents
one side and the other represents the other and each
side is given an opportunity to communicate their side
- create a propaganda piece (poster) that displays each sides
reasoning
- create a news show that shows the two sides point of view
1.) The Russia and Ukraine dispute over
Crimea
2.) The China and Japan dispute over the
East China Sea
3.) The India and Pakistan dispute over
Jammu and Kashmir
4.) The Syrian and Israel debate over Golan
Heights, Gaza Strip, and West Bank
5.) Tibet and China over the independence
of Tibet
6.) Polisaro Front of the Sahrawi People
and the Kingdom of Morroco over
Western Sahara
Geography Final Task: Global Settlement
Analysis of Global Land Disputes:
Name (s):________________________
Criteria
Use of Maps
to display
conflict
region
1
No Maps
2
1 very basic
map that is
unclear
Ability to
gather
current and
accurate
information
Limited
information
gathered
Some decent
information
but many facts
are missing
Ability to put
research into
own words
No effort to
change the
information
into own
words
Some changes
have been
made to the
information
3
At least one
clear and
accurate map
that shows the
region in
dispute
4
More than one
map
displaying
different views
of the conflict
with text to
explain the
visual
Clear, concise
Clear, concise
and current
and current
information
information
has been
has been
collected
collected from
a variety of
reputable
sources
All research
All research
has been
has been
changed
changed
successfully
successfully
into words
into words
that are clearly that are clearly
that of the
the students
students
and the use of
a thesaurus is
Ability to
show 2 sides
without bias
Ability to
Present the
information
in a clear
coherent
manner
evident
Presentation is Presentation
Presentation
Presentation
one sided and
informs one
explores the 2
expertly
biased
side more than
sides of the
explores the 2
the other
dispute evenly
sides of the
dispute evenly
Confusing and
Inconsistent
Clear, coherent Clear, coherent
unclear
presentation
and visually
and extremely
presentation
of information
appealing
visually
of information
appealing