Ecosystems with a Focus on Human Impact

In this section, students will synthesize their understanding of ecosystems and the way that humans impact nature both positively and negatively.  Students will devise a plan to help reduce our negative impact on the environment and present this to their peers.

What are possible causes of ecosystem decline?  What positive and negative ways do humans interact with ecosystems?

  • Discuss student observations from their knowledge so far.  Connect back to everything they have learned so far (roles, types of biomes, energy flow through an ecosystem, what an ecosystem needs to stay balanced.
  • Show slideshow of human impact again.
  • Read the Lorax (possibly show the movie)
  • Students research ecosystem decline (cause/effect)
  • Students research ways that humans effect the environment.

How can humans protect the ecosystems we come in contact with?

Human Impact Project




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