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Making Connections, Linking Population and the Environment
Young scholars find out that all habitats have a carrying capacity. They explore how the world's human population has grown markedly in the 20th century, and that humans impact environmental health. Students investigate that people can...
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Smallville Prairie Development Project
Young scholars research the characteristics of the prairie habitat focusing on scientific, social/historical and aesthetic values. They investigate how humans impact the prairie habitat while maintaining a daily journal of research and...
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Global Carbon Cycle
Students, in groups, create posters of the flow of a carbon atom as it travels through the carbon cycle. They make connections about how human activities affect the carbon cycle, as well.
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pH Potential
Students experiment to determine the positive and negative impacts of human activities on environmental change. They examine how physical and biological processes such as decomposition affect soil characteristics while looking at the pH...