Pre-Lesson: Identifying Earth Materials and Their Impact on

Humansby Lindsay Bowen (bowenl@grps.k12.mi.us)

Pre-Lesson: Identifying Earth Materials and Their Impact on

Humansby Lindsay Bowen (bowenl@grps.k12.mi.us)

Directions: Answer the following questions about undisturbed environments. This can be completed through a whole class discussion or by giving small groups each photo to analyze or just one to present to the class. The last photo showing sand dunes is the photo key into, as this is a focus during your field trip to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

The following questions are asked of each picture in the slide show.

1. What type of environment does this picture represent?

2. What Earth materials are present?

3. What land features do you notice?

4. How are these land features useful to humans?

5. Could humans live in this environment? Why?

6. What type of community could humans create in this environment?

7. Could humans return the land to its original environment after using it? How could they do this?

Directions: Answer the following questions about undisturbed environments. This can be completed through a whole class discussion or by giving small groups each photo to analyze or just one to present to the class. The last photo showing sand dunes is the photo key into, as this is a focus during your field trip to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

The following questions are asked of each picture in the slide show.

1. What type of environment does this picture represent?

2. What Earth materials are present?

3. What land features do you notice?

4. How are these land features useful to humans?

5. Could humans live in this environment? Why?

6. What type of community could humans create in this environment?

7. Could humans return the land to its original environment after using it? How could they do this?

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

1. What type of environment does this picture represent?

2. What Earth materials are present?

3. What land features do you notice?

4. How are these land features useful to humans?

5. Could humans live in this environment? Why?

6. What type of community could humans create in this environment?

7. Could humans return the land to its original environment after using it? How could they do this?

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

1. What type of environment does this picture represent?

2. What Earth materials are present?

3. What land features do you notice?

4. How are these land features useful to humans?

5. Could humans live in this environment? Why?

6. What type of community could humans create in this environment?

7. Could humans return the land to its original environment after using it? How could they do this?

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

1. What type of environment does this picture represent?

2. What Earth materials are present?

3. What land features do you notice?

4. How are these land features useful to humans?

5. Could humans live in this environment? Why?

6. What type of community could humans create in this environment?

7. Could humans return the land to its original environment after using it? How could they do this?

1. What type of environment does this picture represent?

2. What Earth materials are present?

3. What land features do you notice?

4. How are these land features useful to humans?

5. Could humans live in this environment? Why?

6. What type of community could humans create in this environment?

7. Could humans return the land to its original environment after using it? How could they do this?

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.