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Changing Nature's Course: A Look at the Kissimmee River
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/14/g912/kissimmee.html
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In this lesson, students will learn about a major event in which humans modified the physical environment in the United States. On completing this lesson, students should understand the effects of human modification on the Kissimmee River in Florida. They should be able to make generalizations about what they have learned and apply them to human actions and their environmental consequences elsewhere on the globe.
Intended for grade levels:
  • High (9-12)
Type of resource:
  • For the classroom:
    • Case study
    • Lesson plan
Subject:
  • Environmental science
  • Geographical Sciences:
    • Human geography
Technical requirements:
No specific technical requirements, just a browser required
Cost / Copyright:
No cost
Copyright 2001 National Geographic Society. All rights reserved.
DLESE Catalog ID: DLESE-000-000-004-376
Educational standards:
  • National Geography Standards:
    • Environment and society:
      • How human actions modify the physical env.
Resource contact / Creator / Publisher:
Publisher: National Geographic Society
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/index.html