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The Natural Environment Is Shrinking!

  • Grade 3
  • Social Studies
  • People and Environments

Description

In this activity, students draw a diagram that shows how community expansion affects animals, plants, and humans.

Learning goals

  • I select information to explain how the growth of a community impacts the natural environment.

Vocabulary

  • investigation process
  • territory
  • natural environment
  • communities
  • diagram
  • caption
  • deforestation
  • symbols
  • effects
  • positive and negative impacts
  • analysis
  • mine
  • human activity
  • mine tailings (slag)
  • dump site