Globally Aware: We’re all Part of the Same Village

GeoSTEM
Lesson Plan Content
Description: 
Around the world, some of the natural resources (water, land, and air) on which life depends are increasingly becoming depleted or compromised. In some parts of the world, basic sanitation (running water, toilets, and safe water) are not universal. In this lesson students will use statistics to examine human-environmental stresses.
Author: 
Cheryl Wiens
Grade Range: 
7
Duration: 
1-2 class periods
Lesson Materials
Teacher Instructions: 
Standards
National Geography Standards: 
1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information
3: How to analyze the spatial organization of people places, and environments on Earth's surface
4: The physical and human characteristics of places
14: How human actions modify the physical environment
16: The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources
18: How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future