Geography, Humans, and Environment
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Provided by: C3 Teachers|Published on: July 1, 2022
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Synopsis
- This inquiry-based lesson, designed to take four to six sessions, focuses on land use changes, how we change the environment to form communities, the different ways land is used, and the positive or negative results of that change.
- Students will engage in class discussions, watch a time lapse SimCity video, create a community map and chart, and create a pictorial essay throughout their learning experience.
Subjects: Science, Social Studies
Authors: C3 Teachers
Region: North America, USA - Northeast, United States, Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This short unit is engaging and can be adjusted to be about where your students live and go to school.
- A range of activities and collaborative learning opportunities exist within the plans.
Additional Prerequisites
- Ads play before linked video.
- The second video is no longer linked but there are a number of videos available about the bridge on YouTube.
- Students should have some familiarity with maps.
Differentiation
- Cross-curricular connections can be made in science classes by discussing how humans impact the environment and the effect on ecosystems.
- For increased student engagement, have students find pictures of their environment (state, province, town, neighborhood) to add to the charts or essay.
- Consider having students pair up and work together for the pictorial essay.
The resource presents questions, features and formative performance tasks that can draw ideas from students to proffer best ways to shape the environment and all the human activities without altering the natural resource base. This is critical to build students capacity in environmental governance. The resource is recommended for classroom.
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C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers aims to empower teachers as they wrestle with the big ideas and instructional implications of the C3 Framework. Teachers play a critical role in helping students learn academic content using the C3 Inquiry Arc, which outlines the social studies habits of mind, disciplinary tools, and conceptual content that students need to become ready for college and career, and most importantly, civic life. As social studies students map their own disciplinary inquiries, C3 Teachers embark on a pedagogical investigation examining and experimenting with their own practice as they support students’ questions, learn, apply, analyze, collaborate, express, and act in authentic social studies experiences. C3teachers.org is a place to learn more about that process and to share your experiences with other social studies teachers.
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