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An Introduction to Child Soldiers: Causes and Effects

This lesson was created by Jen Slagel (Mt. Pleasant Community School District) for tenth grade students. In this lesson, students will be able to describe the causes for the use of child soldiers and its effects on the children.

Discipline/Subject

World Geography

Human Geography

World History

Sociology

Theme

Population

Cultural/Social

Region

None specified

Five Themes of Geography

Place

Human-Environment Interaction

Movement

Region

Common Core Standards

Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies (WHST)

National Geographic Standards

13. How the forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of Earth's surface

18. How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

BS 4. Understand current social issues to determine how the individual formulates opinions and responds to issues

BS 5. Understand how social status, social groups, social change, and social institutions influence individual and group behaviors

GE 7. Understand how cultural factors influence the design of human communities

HI 8. Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical thinking skills in order to interpret events and issues