The National Geography Standards

The National Geography Standards for this program include 1, 4, 5, 6, and 9. You may read in-depth descriptions of specific standards by clicking on the links below. All of the standards are available here.

Standard 1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.

Standard 4: The physical and human characteristics of places.

Standard 5: That people create regions to interpret Earth's complexity.

Standard 6: How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions.

Standard 9: The characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on Earth's surface.

Twin Cities, Divided Lives follows Concha Martinez as she migrates back and forth between Mexico and the United States. Her illegal journey, and subsequent factory work, not only brings her across the border of two countries but across two geographical regions.

Operation Hold the Line looks at how regions may be formal, informal, and/or functional. It also shows how the experience of a Mexican immigrant to El Paso might cause him to perceive the borderland region very differently from a member of the U.S. border patrol.