Social Studies – 3rd Grade Core
Standard 1: Students will understand how geography influences community location and development.
Objective 2 Describe how various communities have adapted to existing environments and how other communities have modified the environment.
· Describe the major ecosystems (i.e. desert, plain, tropic, tundra, grassland, mountain, forest, wetland).
· Identify important natural resources of world ecosystems
· Describe how communities have modifies the environment to accommodate their needs (e.g. logging, storing water, building transportation systems).
· Investigate ways different communities have adapted into an ecosystem.
TPACK
Content- In this virtual tour, students will be shown different regions and environments of the world that require humans to change the environment in order for them to live there. The tour will show a mountain, wetland, forest, and a plain region, showing the physical features of each environment and the students will be asked to think and research how humans have altered the ecosystems to make it more livable, and after being able to see in a concrete way the areas, the students can make more connections and analysis. This tour is focusing on the environments that need to be altered.
Pedagogy: Students will engage in discover inquiry as a result of this tour. Students will visually explore a few of the different environments on the earth that requires humans to alter the ecosystem in order to inhabit.
Technology: Google Earth serves the pedagogy because students are to take a tour and see different environments through the different features, including image technologies and video technologies. This application will get the students excited because the lesson will be presented in a very hands-on way, allowing the students to explore and learn on Google Earth on their own. This technology will be great because they children will be physically engaging in searching and analyzing through this resource as well as having access to encyclopedia information and pictures that can be connected right onto Google Earth.
| Location | Activity | Google Earth Content |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Plains: Uintah County "Little Desert" | Observe the ecosystem of plains and look at pictures of the how the environment is changed by humans. Read wikipedia and then formulate what modifications were made to the environment or the habitat. | Placemarker wikipedia panoramio |
| 2. Mountains: Wasatch Mountains | Observe ecosystem of mountains and look at different pictures to find out how the environment has been changed or how humans have changed to fit the environment. | Placemaker wikipedia panoramio |
| 3. Desert: Moab Utah, Lake Powell, Utah | Observe ecosystems of Desert and look at the environment and learn about it and figure out ways that humans have changed ecosystem. Give a path to Lake Powell to show how a damn was used to change ecosystem | Path Wikipedia Panoramio Path Placemarker |
| 4. Forests: California Forests, Stara Planina, Bulgaria. | Observe Ecosystem of two different forests, one local to the U.S. and another very far away. Discover the ecosystem of forests and analyze how it has been changed | Layers Path Wikipedia Panoramio Placemarker |
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