Download This Lesson: In Harmony
Brief Description: Students develop mapmaking, map reading, and graph reading skills as they learn the capabilities and limitations of our land resources by using a soil survey. In the process students begin to develop the knowledge needed to build a foundation for understanding the complex issues involved in making land use decisions in harmony with the land’s capability.
OBJECTIVES
The students will:
- explain that land resources differ due to soil type, geology, topography, the climate, or history;
- identify how human decisions about land use are influenced by both the natural resource base and economics;
- make their own land-use decisions.
ESTIMATED TEACHING TIME
Five sessions: 45 minutes each.
Project Food, Land & People Alignment to Maine Learning Results:
Parameters for Essential Instruction Public Domain Lessons
|
Discipline & Standard |
Grade Span/Grade |
|||
|
|
PreK-2 |
3-5 |
6-8 |
9-Diploma |
|
Science & Technology |
|
|
|
|
|
A. Unifying Themes |
|
A2a |
|
|
|
C. The Scientific & Technological Enterprise |
|
C3a |
C3a |
|
|
D. he Physical Setting |
|
D2d |
|
|
|
Social Studies |
|
|
|
|
|
A. Applications of Social Studies Process, |
|
A2a, A2b |
A2b |
|