Social Studies 3201/02

In this unit, students will investigate human-environmental interactions that have significant consequences for quality of life and the natural world.

Throughout this unit, students will consider three areas of natural resource development: land use, water use, and energy use. This examination will begin with an investigation of human activities that seek to develop each resource, with a focus on the relationship between resource use and quality of life. 

Next, students will consider the consequences of unsustainable resource development and issues that arise from these activities. In doing so, students should consider how human-environmental interactions may influence both the environment and have consequences on quality of life. 

Finally, students will consider viable responses to issues resulting from human-environmental interactions, with the intent of evaluating these responses and proposing effective courses of action that seek to address these issues.