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Environmental Impacts, Natural Resources, and Hazards

5th Grade · Social Studies · US-MI-SS

8 lessons

Goal

Analyze how resource use, technology, human-induced environmental changes, and natural hazards interact with human communities.

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  5. Transboundary Environmental Impacts: Downstream and Downwind EffectsNot started yet
  6. How Communities Adapt to Physical Environmental ChangesNot started yet
  7. Natural Hazards and Human Decisions: Risk and VulnerabilityNot started yet
  8. Cooperation and Conflict Over Shared Regional ResourcesNot started yet
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Learning standards covered

us-mi6 – G5.1.1Michigan Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Describe examples of how humans have impacted and are continuing to impact the environment in different places as a consequence of population size, resource use, level of consumption, and technology.