La Gente: Borderlands

education standards

Spanish Explorers

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework
D2.Eco.1.6-8
Explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society.
D2.Geo.1.6-8
Construct maps to represent and explain the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics.
D2.Geo.4.6-8
Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.
D2.Geo.6.6-8
Explain how the physical and human characteristics of places and regions are connected to human identities and cultures.
D2.Geo.7.6-8
Explain how changes in transportation and communication technology influence the spatial connections among human settlements and affect the diffusion of ideas and cultural practices.
D2.His.14.6-8
Explain multiple causes and effects of events and developments in the past.
D2.His.15.6-8
Evaluate the relative influence of various causes of events and developments in the past.
D2.His.4.6-8
Analyze multiple factors that influenced the perspectives of people during different historical eras.

I Didn't Cross the Border, The Border Crossed Me

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework
D2.Geo.1.6-8
Construct maps to represent and explain the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics.
D2.Geo.12.6-8
Explain how global changes in population distribution patterns affect changes in land use in particular places.
D2.Geo.2.6-8
Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions, and changes in their environmental characteristics.
D2.Geo.4.6-8
Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.
D2.Geo.8.6-8
Analyze how relationships between humans and environments extend or contract spatial patterns of settlement and movement.

Colorado Borderlands

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework
D2.Geo.1.6-8
Construct maps to represent and explain the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics.
D2.Geo.2.6-8
Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions, and changes in their environmental characteristics.
D2.Geo.4.6-8
Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.
D2.Geo.8.6-8
Analyze how relationships between humans and environments extend or contract spatial patterns of settlement and movement.

The Mexican-American War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework
D2.Geo.1.6-8
Construct maps to represent and explain the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics.
D2.Geo.12.6-8
Explain how global changes in population distribution patterns affect changes in land use in particular places.
D2.Geo.2.6-8
Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions, and changes in their environmental characteristics.
D2.Geo.4.6-8
Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.
D2.Geo.8.6-8
Analyze how relationships between humans and environments extend or contract spatial patterns of settlement and movement.

Early Hispano Coloradans

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework
D2.Civ.14.6-8
Compare historical and contemporary means of changing societies, and promoting the common good.
D2.Civ.2.6-8
Explain specific roles played by citizens (such as voters, jurors, taxpayers, members of the armed forces, petitioners, protesters, and office-holders).
D2.Civ.6.6-8
Describe the roles of political, civil, and economic organizations in shaping people's lives.

San Luis: Colorado’s Oldest Town

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework
D2.Geo.1.6-8
Construct maps to represent and explain the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics.
D2.Geo.12.6-8
Explain how global changes in population distribution patterns affect changes in land use in particular places.
D2.Geo.2.6-8
Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions, and changes in their environmental characteristics.
D2.Geo.4.6-8
Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.
D2.Geo.8.6-8
Analyze how relationships between humans and environments extend or contract spatial patterns of settlement and movement.

Spanish Place Names in Colorado

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework
D2.Geo.1.6-8
Construct maps to represent and explain the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics.
D2.Geo.6.6-8
Explain how the physical and human characteristics of places and regions are connected to human identities and cultures.

The Colorado Constitution

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework
D2.Civ.3.6-8
Examine the origins, purposes, and impact of constitutions, laws, treaties, and international agreements.