1. Humans and the Environment
6 – G5.1.1 Describe the environmental effects of human action on the atmosphere (air), biosphere (people, animals, and plants), lithosphere (soil), and hydrosphere (water) (e.g., changes in the tropical forest environments in Brazil, Peru, and Costa Rica).
6 – G5.1.2 Describe how variations in technology affect human modifications of the landscape (e.g., clearing forests for agricultural land in South America, fishing in the Grand Banks of the Atlantic, expansion of cities in South America, hydroelectric developments in Canada, Brazil and Chile, and mining the Kentucky and West Virginia)
Rachel Monzo
SST

2. Books

3. Poem Give A Man A Bulldozer Give a man a bulldozer,
He'll fill the lake with muck,
A thousand years it was running clear,
But now it's running out of luck.
He'll shove the soil away,
A thousand years of careful loam
He pushes it down into the bay.
He sees a little glen,
It's nice with falls and fern and buds
And bugs and gentle violets, and then--
Made of fire and steel,
He'll make the whole world reel and rock,
He'll end up buried in the muck,
With the bulldozer on top.
-Malvina Reynolds

4. Poem Awareness Broken bottles and charred pieces of glass
Wadded up newspapers tossed on the grass
Pouring of concrete and tearing out trees
This is the environment that surrounds me?
Poisons and insecticides sprayed on our food
Oceans filling with thick oil crude
All sea life destined to a slow awful doom
These are the things we are to consume?
Mills pumping out iron expelling yellow fumes
Airlines emitting caustic gases from fuels
Weapons of destruction tested at desolate sites
And this is the air that's to sustain life?
There has to be something that someone can do
Like raise the awareness to those around you
That if we don't heed the problem at hand
It's your life that's at stake, the destruction of man.
-Sylvia Stults

5. Video
starting at (1:20)

6. Cartoon

7. Cartoon

8. Map of Deforestation

9. Life Cycle
Of A
Plastic
Bottle

10. Website

11. Website

12. Article National Geographic
1. The most dramatic impact is a loss of habitat for millions of species
2. Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy
3. Forest soils are moist, but without protection from sun-blocking tree cover they quickly dry out
warming/deforestation-overview/

13. Article
has a lesson plan connected!

14. Lesson Plan Investigating Potential Effects of the Prestige Oil Spill
Students will:
1. Brainstorm potential effects of an oil spill on the environment, on plant and animal life, and on the human culture and economy of the area.
2. Learn about the recent oil spill off the coast of Spain by reading and discussing "Storm-Hit Oil Tanker Sinks Off Spain, Threatening Catastrophe."
3. Research the impact of past oil spills on the environment, plant and animal life, and the human culture and economy.

15. Works Cited
Book
Cherry, L., & Braasch, G. (2010). How we know what we know about global climate change. Nevada City, CA: Dawn Publications.
Seuss, D. (1971). The Lorax. New York: Random House.
50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth. Kansas City, Mo: Andrews McMeel, Print.
Poem/Song/Video
Stults, S. (2013). Awareness. Retrieved from
Melodysheep. (Producer). (2012, September 12). Symphony of science: Our biggest challenge (climate change video) [Web Video]. Retrieved from
Reynolds, M. (Artist). (1995). Give a man a bulldozer [Song]. Retrieved from
Website/Online Media
University of Michigan. (n.d.). In what ways have human activities contributed to the degradation of the nile river?. In Human impacts on the nile river. Retrieved February 11, 2014, from
Energy Information Administration. (n.d.). Energy sources. In Energy kids. Retrieved February 7, 2014, from
Montgomery County Public Schools. (n.d.). The life cycle of a plastic bottle. In Montgomery Schools. Retrieved February 9, 2014, from
Maple Croft. (2011). Deforestation index In Maple Croft. Retrieved February 10, 2014, from
Cartoon
Kurtzman, D. (Artist). (2007, May 8). Environmentalist idiots [Web Drawing]. Retrieved from
Kurtzman, D. (Artist). Mankind and climate change [Web Drawing]. Retrieved from
Article
Daly, E. (2002, November 20). Storm-hit oil tanker sinks off spain, threatening catastrophe. In The new york times on the web. Retrieved February 8, 2014, from
National Geographic. (n.d.). Deforestation. In National Geographic. Retrieved February 8, 2014, from
Lesson
Lerman, D., & Khan, J. (2002, November 20). Sunken hazard. In Daily lesson plan. Retrieved February 9, 2014