How Zoning Laws Separate Factories from Homes

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Explain how city planning boards use zoning regulations to protect neighborhoods from smoke, noise, and heavy truck traffic.

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Environmental Civics, Policy, and Community Action

4th Grade · Social-studies · US-WI-SS

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Examine how laws, sovereignty, and citizen advocacy shape environmental decisions, and formulate evidence-based community recommendations.

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SS.Geog5.a.1Wisconsin Social Studies Standards · 4th Grade

Provide examples of human changes to the environment surrounding the school or neighborhood.

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.