SS10.HG.10

Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Human Geography

SS10.HG.10

Recognize how human-environmental interaction affects culture in today’s society.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • How humans have impacted the earth's environment.
  • The major factors contributing to environmental change.
  • How humans are responding to environmental change.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • List several ways humans have impacted the environment.
  • Evaluate reasons why environmental change occurs.
  • Map areas of the world most affected by human activity.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Culture is impacted by humans interacting with the environment.

Vocabulary

  • human-environment
  • interaction
  • recognize
  • culture
  • society

COS Examples

Examples: population growth in the Galapagos Islands damaging the environment of endemic plant and animal species, deforestation in the Pantanal affecting the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem, green technologies affecting humans and the environment

Aligned Learning Resources

Water and Classical Civilizations/Crash Course World History
The Agricultural Revolution/Crash Course World History
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