Where in the World Are Major Environmental Changes?
Lesson Plans
Grades6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12Biology, Earth and Space Sciences, Geography
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What it is
- This activity allows students to explore significant environmental changes all around the world, with a specific emphasis on deforestation in Brazil.
- Students will learn that satellite images can be used to interpret, understand, plan, and predict environmental changes.
Teaching tips
Positives
- The lesson is easy to follow and encourages students to brainstorm and think critically.
- The Earthshots cards are downloadable to use offline.
Additional Prerequisites
- The educator guide provides a background, objectives, and procedures section that will help you implement the lesson.
Differentiation
- This could be paired with a Google Earth resource to see more locations and investigate other topics.
- Social studies classes could use this resource when discussing the locations where humans have settled and developed communities over time.
- Connections could be made with justice and ethics classes when discussing the use of Indigenous lands for development or mining.
- Other similar resources include this interactive global forest map and this video about human impacts on the environment.
From the scientist review
The resource will provide students insights to observe, analyze, synthesize, and predict environmental change using remote sense data from satellite images. It will update their mapping skills and hence, it is recommended for teaching.
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