🌎 How Communities Live in Different Environments - Note to Students

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How Do Communities Live in Different Environments?

In this module, you will learn how communities live in different environments. Part of using and adapting to an environment means knowing what natural resources are available. You will learn about different types of natural resources, what kinds of natural resources exist in different biomes, and how these natural resources are used by people in different communities. As part of this module, you will expand on your knowledge of major world biomes, use your map-reading skills, have a hands-on experience navigating and surviving the Oregon Trail, and have the opportunity to design your own home in an extreme environment!

Lesson Activities

Activity 1 - Inquiry: Natural Resources Nearpod Lesson

Learning Objective: To be familiar with the natural resources of each world biome.

- - - Think about the following essential question: Why are natural resources important?

Activity 2 - Communicating: Discussion Board Video

Learning Objective: Understand why natural resources are important

- - - Using the discussion feature in Canvas, you will record a video of yourself telling us which natural resource you think is the MOST important to human survival and WHY.
    - Your video should be 2 minutes long or less.
    - Once you have recorded your video, comment on at least two other student responses.

Activity 3 - Application: The Story of Riverside Part 1 Assignment and Quiz

Learning Objective: Understand how communities adapt and change the land around them to fit their needs.

- - - Read the online storybook titled The Story of Riverside
    - Draw your own map of Riverside and watch how the land changes and develops with human settlement

Activity 4 - Inquiry: McGraw Hill's The Long Road to Oregon Nearpod Assignment and Quiz

Learning Objective: Understand how pioneers traveling from Missouri to Oregon used natural resources and and adapted the land to fit their needs

- - - Read The Long Road to Oregon through Canvas or through the Nearpod presentation.
    - Think about this text from the perspective of the pioneers traveling from Missouri to Oregon Territory
    - Think about how the pioneers utilized natural resources and adapted the land to fit their needs

Activity 5 - Application: The Oregon Trail on Classic Reload

Learning Objective: Experience what it's like to be a pioneer traveling the Oregon Trail

- - - Through the game you will load and prepare your wagon
    - You will make decisions along the trail to help you survive, including how to use natural resources

Activity 6 - Application: The Story of Riverside Part 2 Assignment and Quiz

Learning Objective: Understand how communities grow and change over time as people change the land around them to fit their needs.

- - - Read the online storybook The Story of Riverside Part 2
    - Update your map of Riverside that you created in Part 1
    - Understand how the people of Riverside used the natural resources and how they changed the environment to fit their needs

Activity 7 - Inquiry: Frank Lloyd Wright and Organic Architecture Nearpod

Learning Objective: Understand different ways modern communities have adapted into a biome.

- - - Think about the essential question: How does Organic Architecture use the natural elements of the environment to create safe and creative shelters?
    - Think about how Frank Lloyd Wright created buildings and houses that fit with their surroundings and used ideas found in nature

Activity 8 - Communicating: Design a Shelter in an Extreme Environment like Frank Lloyd Wright

Learning Objective: Show what you know about organic architecture by designing a home of your own

- - - Create a house using the ideas of organic architecture and Frank Lloyd Wright
    - Design a house that will fit in an extreme environment and will keep your family safe