The Mexican American Experience in Kansas - Kansas Curricular Standards
This traveling resource trunk connects to the 2004 Kansas History and Government; Economics and Geography Standards in the following ways:
Fourth Grade
Geography, Benchmark 4, Indicator2: Identifies conditions that determine the location of human activities (e.g., resources, population, transportation, and technology).
- Lesson 6: Was Kansas in Mexico?
History, Benchmark 1, Indicator 2: Uses traditional stories from regions of the United States to help define a region.
- Lesson 20: Cuentos
History, Benchmark 1, Indicator 6: Describes life on the Santa Fe and Oregon-California Trails (e.g., interactions between different cultural groups, hardships such as lack of water, mountains and rivers to cross, weather, need for medical care, size of wagon).
- Lesson 21: Reflecting on Food
History, Benchmark 2, Indicator 1: Compares the various reasons several immigrant groups settled in Kansas (e.g., English, German, German-Russian, French, Swedish, Czechoslovakian, Croatian, Serbian, Mexican, African American, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian).
- Lesson 6: Was Kansas in Mexico?
- Lesson 7: The Hispanic Face of Kansas
- Lesson 8: Immigration to Kansas: A Research Exercise
History, Benchmark 2, Indicator 2: Explains the economic and cultural contributions made by immigrant groups in Kansas (e.g., jobs, agriculture, mining, arts, customs, celebrations).
- Lesson 8: Immigration to Kansas: A Research Exercise
History, Benchmark 4, Indicator 1: Creates and uses historical timelines (e.b., time periods, eras, decades, centuries).
- Lesson 6: Was Kansas in Mexico?
History, Benchmark 4, Indicator 4: Identifies and compares information from primary and secondary sources (e.g., photographs, diaries/journals, newspapers, historical maps).
- Lesson 8: Immigration to Kansas: A Research Exercise
- Lesson 9: "How to Handle Mexican Labor": An Exercise in Generalizations and Stereotypes
- Lesson 10: Do Photos Lie?
- Lesson 21: Reflecting on Food
Fifth Grade
Geography, Benchmark 4, Indicator 3: Describes the effects of human migration on place and population (e.g., population shifts, acculturation; diffusion of ideas, diseases, crops and culture).
- Entire trunk
Geography, Benchmark 4, Indicator 5: Understands that forces of conflict and cooperation divide or unite people (e.g., land disputes, religious intolerance, taxation).
- Lesson 6: Was Kansas in Mexico?
History, Benchmark 4, Indicator 1: Uses historical timelines to trace the cause and effect relationships between events in different places during the same time period, e.g., Colonial America and England).
- Lesson 6: Was Kansas in Mexico?
History, Benchmark 4, Indicator 4: Uses information including primary sources to debate a problem or an historical issue.
- Lesson 8: Immigration to Kansas: A Research Exercise
- Lesson 9: "How to Handle Mexican Labor": An Exercise in Generalizations and Stereotypes
- Lesson 10: Do Photos Lie?
Sixth Grade
Geography, Benchmark 1, Indicator 3: Identifies major patterns of world populations, physical features, ecosystems, and cultures using historic and contemporary geographic tools (e.g., maps, illustrations, photographs, documents, data).
- Lesson 6: Was Kansas in Mexico?
Geography, Benchmark 2, Indicator 5: Traces the movement (diffusion) from one region or center of civilization to other regions of the world (e.g., people, goods, ideas).
- Entire trunk
Geography, Benchmark 4, Indicator 2: Describes the forces and processes of conflict and cooperation that divide or unite people (e.g., uneven distribution of resources, water use in ancient Mesopotamia, building projects in ancient Egypt and Middle/South America, the Greek city-states, empire building, movements for independence).
- Lesson 9: "How to Handle Mexican Labor": An Exercise in Generalizations and Stereotypes
- Lesson 10: Do Photos Lie?
- Lesson 11: Bilingual Education: An Example of Discrimination?
- Lesson 18: Independence Day (September 16)
History 6, Benchmark 3, Indicator 1: Describes the governmental/political, social, and economic institutions and innovations of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations.
- Lesson 3: Mexicans: Old Roots, Young People
- Lesson 4: Mayan Math
- Lesson 5: The Aztec Calendar
