Curio Class
On the bench · not built yet
The Shrinking Lake
Slide through sixty years of Lake Chad as it shrinks with drought and irrigation and the population around it grows: herders, farmers and fishers move, land use changes, and four countries choose whether to fight over it or share it.
- Play style
- Timeline
- Module
- The Shrinking Lake: Environmental change, population and conflict or cooperation
- Grade
- Grade 6 · Social Studies
- Standards
D2.Geo.9.6-8D2.Geo.12.6-8
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