Country Scale: The Interstate Highway System and Land Use

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Examine how the national highway network transformed American trade, suburban expansion, and land development.

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National, Global, and Multi-Scale Environmental Consequences

4th Grade · Social-studies · US-WI-SS

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Analyze how country-wide infrastructure and global systems create intentional and unintentional environmental impacts across interconnected geographic levels.

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SS.Geog5.a.hWisconsin Social Studies Standards · 4th Grade

Analyze the intentional and unintentional spatial consequences of human actions on the environment at the local, state, tribal, regional, country, and world levels.