New Mexico history - Clovis Municipal School District

Created January 18, 2011
I-A-1 I-A-3 2nd 9 Weeks Vocabulary
Compare and contrast the relationships over Analyze the role and impact of New Mexico
time of Native American tribes in New Mexico and New Mexicans in World War II (e.g., Acequias
with other cultures. Native Code Talkers, New Mexico National Assimilation
Guard, internment camps, Manhattan Project,
Concurrent powers
I-A-2 Bataan Death March). Cultural perspective
Analyze the geographic, economic, social, and
Ecosystem
political factors of New Mexico that impacted I-A-4 Environment
United States and world history, to include: Analyze the impact of the arts, sciences, and Erosion
• land grant and treaty issues unresolved to technology of New Mexico since World War II Ethnicity
present day and continuing to impact (e.g., artists, cultural artifacts, nuclear Infrastructure
relations between and among citizens at the weapons, the arms race, technological Internment camps
state, tribal, and federal government levels; advances, scientific developments, high tech Land grant
• role of water issues as they relate to industries, federal laboratories). Property rights
development of industry, population growth,
Tourism
historical issues, and current acequia II-D-1 Urbanization
systems/water organizations;
Analyze how the Earth's physcial processes
• urban development;
are dynamic and interactive.
• role of federal government (e.g., military
bases, national laboratories, national parks, II-D-2
Indian reservations, transportation systems, Analyze the importance of ecosystems in
water projects);
understanding environments.
• unique role of New Mexico in the 21st
century as a "Minority Majority" state. II-D-3
Explain and analyze how water is a scarce
I-A-5
resource in New Mexio, both in quantity and
Explain how New Mexico history represents a quality.
framework of knowledge and skills within
which to understand the complexity of the II-D-4
human experience, to include:
Explain the dynamics of the four basic
• analyze perspectives that have shaped the components of the Earth's physical systems
structures of historical knowledge; (atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and
• describe ways historians study the past; hydrosphere).
• explain connections made between the past
and the present and their impact.