Student Learning Map
Name:
Course/Subject:
Topic: Human Impact
Date:
Team:
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Key Learning: The effects of human activity on erosion and natural resources.
What are the effects of human activity on erosion and natural resources?
Concept:
Human Activity
and Soil Erosion
Concept:
Soil
Conservation
Concept:
Pollution
Concept:
Natural Resources/
Conservation
Concept:
Energy
Resources
Lesson Essential
Questions:
What is
erosion?
Lesson
Essential
Questions:
What is soil
conservation?
Lesson Essential
Questions:
What is pollution?
Lesson Essential
Questions:
What is a natural
resource?
Lesson
Essential
Questions:
What are
renewable
resources?
How does
human activity
create
erosion?
What is
logging?
What is
mining?
What is
farming?
What is a
drought?
What is
construction?
What were the
causes of the
What are the
methods that
prevent soil
erosion?
What is a
cover crop?
What is crop
rotation?
What is
contour
plowing?
What is
terracing?
What is a
windbreak?
What is air
pollution?
How do we conserve
our natural resources?
What are
emissions?
What is the ozone?
What is water
pollution?
What is thermal
pollution?
How does the ozone
get holes in it?
Where do
chlorofluorocarbons
come from?
What does UV radiation
cause?
What is water
conservation?
What is air
conservation?
What are
nonrenewable
resources?
What are
energy
resources?
What are
fossil fuels?
What is
petroleum?
What is
natural gas?
What is coal?
Student Learning Map
Dust Bowl?
Vocabulary:
Erosion
Logging
Construction
Farming
Mining
Deforestation
Drought
What are
alternative
energy
sources?
Vocabulary:
Conservation 
Crop residue
Terracing
Windbreaks
No-till farming
Crop rotation
Cover crop
Crop canopy
Contour
planting
Vocabulary:
Pollution
Emissions
Thermal
Radioactive
Toxicities
Toxic
Vocabulary:
Chlorofluorocarbons
Greenhouse effect
Ozone
Ultraviolet
Conservation
Global warming
Cancer
Additional Information/Resources:
http://www.epa.gov/owow/NPS/kids/whatwrng.html
http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page/trends/highligh
t1.html
http://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/missoz/misspan.html
http://www.eia.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=2
Brain pop
Human Footprint by National Geographic
Vocabulary:
Petroleum
petrochemicals
natural gas
coal
nuclear
geothermal
biomass
solar
hydroelectric
wind
nonrenewable
renewable
oil
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