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Changing Forests
Provided by: Google Earth |Published on: April 27, 2021
Articles/Websites Grades 3-5, 6-8
Synopsis
- This Google Earth voyage takes students on an interactive trip of forests around the world, showcasing the impacts of human activity throughout the years.
- The resource provides information on deforestation, land use change, mitigation efforts, and supplemental links for further learning.
- Students will learn about changing forests in Bolivia, Tanzania, Brazil, Indonesia, China, and Alabama.
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, History, Geography
Authors: Google Earth
Region: Africa, Asia, North America, South and Central America, USA - South, United States, Global, Alabama
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- Many of the stops on the voyage provide time-lapse Google Earth footage of forests throughout the world.
- Each of the stops on the voyage is accompanied by photographs and written descriptions of the location.
Additional Prerequisites
- Students should be comfortable with technology and navigating Google Earth.
- Younger students can be guided through the trip as a whole class activity.
- Students should be familiar with vocabulary words like deforestation, fossil fuels, palm oil, and biodiversity.
Differentiation
- Social studies teachers could use this resource as a cooperative learning activity with pairs of students observing and writing about each location.
- Elementary classes can use the resource as a class and students could use a graphic organizer to record the name of the location, where it is located, what is happening to the forest, and why.
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