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Quantifying Land Changes Over Time in Areas of Deforestation and Urbanization Lesson PlanQuantifying Land Changes Over Time in Areas of Deforestation and Urbanization Lesson Plan
Publisher
National Wildlife Federation
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Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
Science
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For Teacher Use
Duration
2 hrs
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2013
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Quantifying Land Changes Over Time in Areas of Deforestation and Urbanization

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This Quantifying Land Changes Over Time in Areas of Deforestation and Urbanization lesson plan also includes:
  • Curriculum Overview - English
  • Curriculum Overview - Spanish
  • About the Colors of Landsat Images
  • Grid
  • Urbanization and Deforestation
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Is qualitative or quantitative research more convincing when it comes to climate change? In the eighth lesson plan during this 21-part series, scholars begin by performing a quantitative analysis of deforestation and urbanization. Then, they use the same area to perform a qualitative analysis. They wrap up the lesson plan by developing a presentation on what they learned about climate change.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

deforestation, urbanization, global warming, climate change, rural environments, urban environments, agricultural revolution, urban development

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Debate the best way to use the land in order to protect the people, the current habitat, and the earth

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires prior knowledge of deforestation, urbanization, and how to calculate percent change
  • Builds on the previous lesson in the series, so they must be completed in the correct order

Pros

  • Includes many links for prerequisite knowledge, vocabulary, reading, and further learning
  • Aligns to the National Science Education Standards, National Education Technology Standards, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Education Standards, Climate Literacy Principles, and Energy Literacy Principles
  • Provides high-color photographs

     

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RST.9-10.7 RST.9-10.9 RST.11-12.7 RST.11-12.9

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