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Six Degrees Curriculum
Grades 3-5: Six Degrees of Change:
Conservation in My Community
Students learn about global warming and their community’s conservation efforts. Students develop and complete a project documenting, via reporting or photography, a local conservation effort.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/14/g35/SixDegrees.pdf
Grades 6-8: Six Degrees of Change: Conservation in My Community
Students learn about global warming and their community’s conservation efforts. Students develop and complete a project documenting, via reporting or photography, a local conservation effort.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/14/g68/SixDegrees.pdf
Human Footprint
Grades 6-8: Mapping Our Human Footprint
Students learn about the Human Footprint Atlas, analyze a map showing where and to what extent humans have influenced Earth, and participate in a class discussion. They make connections between patterns of human influence and geographic factors.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/14/g68/HumanFootprintMapping.pdf
Grades 6-8: Perils of Plastic
Students learn about the world’s largest “landfill”, a collection of trash covering an estimated five million square miles of the Pacific Ocean. To connect this crisis to their own world students collect their recyclable trash for one week and weigh it. They extrapolate this number to make additional calculations
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/14/g68/HumanFootprintPlastic.pdf
Grades 6-8: Protecting Earth’s Wildlife
Students learn how a growing demand for natural resources such as wood and coal threatens habitats and wildlife. They select one issue and develop a list of actions people could take to reduce or reverse the problem. They complete a project (e.g., poster, skit, graphic novel) communicating the issue and their action steps.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/14/g68/HumanFootprintWildlife.pdf