Degradation and Environmental Activists
Great Lakes Principle
Principle 4: Water makes Earth habitable; fresh water sustains life on land.
Principle 8: The Great Lakes are socially, economically, and environmentally significant to the region, the nation and the planet.
Content learning targets
HS-ESS3-3. Create a computational simulation to illustrate the relationships among management of natural resources, the sustainability of human populations, and biodiversity.
HS-ETS1-3. Evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and aesthetics, as well as possible social, cultural, and environmental impacts.
Cause and Effect
Empirical evidence is required to differentiate between cause and correlation and make claims about specific causes and effects. (HS-ESS3-1)
Geography
A.12.4 Analyze the short-term and long-term effects that major changes in population in various parts of the world have had or might have on the environment
Life Sciences
HS-LS2-7. Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.
Engineering Design
HS-ETS1-3. Evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and aesthetics, as well as possible social, cultural, and environmental impacts.
Stability and Change
Change and rates of change can be quantified and modeled over very short or very long periods of time. Some system changes are irreversible. (HS- ESS3-3),(HS-ESS3-5). Feedback (negative or positive) can stabilize or destabilize a system. (HS- ESS3-4)
Urban Citizenship
C.12.8 Locate, organize, analyze, and use information from various sources to understand an issue of public concern, take a position, and communicate the position
C.12.9 Identify and evaluate the means through which advocates influence public policy
C.12.10 Identify ways people may participate effectively in community affairs and the political process
C.12.14 Explain and analyze how different political and social movements have sought to mobilize public opinion and obtain governmental support in order to achieve their goals
Ideas for activities around:
- Historical mapping
- Highlight on the Menomonee Valley Partners
- Deforestation
- Erosion
- Point vs. Non-point Pollution
- Economics
- Immigration
- Aldo Leopold and Increase Lapham
- Contemporary Milwaukee-based activists
- Butler’s Garter snake
Resources
- Activities
- Documents