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Environmental Issues: Land Use Change
http://www.ei.lehigh.edu/eli/luc/
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This interdisciplinary technology-embedded middle school science unit focuses on how human activities influence environmental changes related to land use. Students use geospatial information technology (GIT) tools including Google Earth and remotely sensed images to investigate modern day land use issues and land use change over time. It was designed using the Understanding by Design framework and is aligned to national science and geography standards. The unit has modified materials from the NASA-sponsored Mission Geography curricular module, Human footprints on Earth as seen by NASA scientists to take advantage of available, user-friendly geospatial technologies. The materials have been pilot-tested and field-tested in 8th grade classrooms at Broughal Middle School, a technology-rich urban school.
Intended for grade levels:
  • Middle (6-8)
  • High (9-12)
Type of resource:
  • For the classroom:
    • Module / Unit
Subject:
  • Ecology
  • Environmental science
  • Geographical Sciences:
    • Human geography
    • Physical geography
Technical requirements:
Adobe Acrobat reader
QuickTime plug-in
Cost / Copyright:
No cost
Copyright 2008 Broughal NASA Explorer School/Lehigh University Partnership. All rights reserved.
DLESE Catalog ID: DLESE-000-000-010-373
Resource contact / Creator / Publisher:
Principal Investigator: Dr Alec M. Bodzin
Department of Education & Human Services
Lehigh University

Contact: Lori Cirucci
Broughal Middle School