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present. Ask if there could be multiple causes for people making a single

change?

7. Present the Human –Environment Interaction Chart to the students and ask

them to complete the first square based on their prior work. Complete the

second square as well. Do the same for the third portion of the HEI Chart.

8. Next, introduce the term, “urban” and ask the students to describe the

differences between “urban and rural”.

9. Ask the students if the consequences are “good or bad”. This generally

generates an interesting discussion, revolving around the themes of

personal, cultural, group or national interests of the people making the

change in the landscape, environmental issues, and economic

considerations. Ask students how these “reasons” for the change in the

landscape could be “good and bad” at the same time. Then ask if it is

possible for the consequences to be neither “good nor bad” and if these

kinds of labels or judgements could be suspended or avoided altogether

all together?

If so, how wo uld that effect the decisions made in how to change the

landscape? I those judgements couldn’t be suspended, could picking the

change to be made by the consequence the people wanted to live with be

used to identify and plan landscape change?

10. The teacher then puts a second visual up showing a change in the

previous landscape, and asks the students to complete the second line in the

HEI Chart.

The instructor will gets inquiries as to the “correct answer” for the second box

on the chart. One response is to direct the students hypothesize logical

reasons, or to list multiple reasons that would be defensible in a discussion/

debate.

VIII.

Assessment:

1. Develop a pretest using the vocabulary words associated with the lesson:

Rural, Urban, Landscape, Human-Environment Interaction Chart,

“consequences”

2. Ask the students to draw and correctly label a Human-Environment

Interaction Chart.

3. Instruct the students to make an HEI Chart for a change that recently

occurred in their school.

4. Give a post-test, with the same basic questions as the pre-test to

determine growth in knowledge or process.

IX.

Adaptations:

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