Human Environmental Impacts and Conservation

Master fundamental map tools, scales, grids, and global coordinate systems including latitude, longitude, and hemispheres.

Explore world continents and oceans while analyzing diverse map formats, from physical and topographic maps to climate data and digital GIS tools.

Explore the major mountain ranges, plains, plateaus, coasts, and water systems that shape the North American landscape.

Investigate the diverse ecosystems, climate patterns, landscape-shaping forces, and geographic regions of North America.

Identify and classify renewable, nonrenewable, and inexhaustible resources and explore how humans use soil, water, forests, minerals, and fossil fuels.

Analyze how human activities alter natural landscapes and ecosystems, and evaluate conservation methods used to protect the environment.

Analyze how natural resource distribution shapes global trade routes, regional wealth, and international competition.

Explore sustainable agricultural methods, renewable energy, and conservation practices that protect global ecosystems.

Explore how early Native American nations across major geographic regions adapted to diverse environments and developed distinct cultures and governance systems.

Investigate ancient and modern Upper Midwest Indigenous cultures, ecological practices, and the primary sources and oral traditions used to study Native history.

Examine the causes, technologies, and global impacts of European exploration, including Spanish and French expeditions in North America.

Analyze the establishment of early English colonies, the regional diversity of the Thirteen Colonies, and the rise of plantation labor systems.

Understand the growing tensions between Great Britain and the American colonies, key protest events, the outbreak of armed conflict, and the ideas behind the Declaration of Independence.

Examine the diverse perspectives and key turning points of the Revolutionary War, the victory at Yorktown, and the creation of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Explore Wisconsin's physical regions, waterways, early mining history, territorial expansion, and early immigrant settlement.

Investigate Wisconsin's major historic industries, agricultural growth, environmental stewardship leaders, and modern tribal sovereignty.

Explore why governments exist, how the three federal branches balance power, and how laws are made across national, state, and local levels.

Learn about the democratic voting process, First Amendment protections, and how citizens take responsibility and action in their communities.

Understand fundamental economic concepts including scarcity, production, opportunity cost, and how supply and demand shape markets.

Learn how currency and trade connect economies, how businesses operate, and how to manage personal money through budgeting and banking.