Geography Standard Two - Grades 9-12

Sample Activities

Students might explain how the interactions of the world's atmospheric and hydrologic systems produce different environments in high-latitude interior continental locations and low-latitude, maritime locations [Environment]

This activity relates to Science Standard Five (Earth Systems).

Students could undertake research which helps them understand how technology and human needs have altered a particular ecosystem, such as the Everglades, and how natural environments place constraints on human activity [Environments].

Students might identify the ways in which he local community modified the local physical environment (e.g., rivers damned, trees cut down, animals hunted) one hundred years ago. They could then contrast the way the community is currently altering the same environment and consider the likely future environmental changes [Environment].

This activity relates to Science Standard Eight (Environment).

Students could be asked to evaluate the different ways humans in various parts of the world use the same natural resources (e.g., animal manure). They could then contrast this with the different ways humans react to the same natural hazards (e.g., volcanic eruptions) [Environment].

This activity relates to Economics Standard Three (Economic systems).

After conducting an environmental impact study on the result of a proposed highway or rail line, students could make a recommendation as to whether or not the project should go forward, and if so, what route should be followed to limit environmental effects [Environment].

to Geography Standard Two.