Digital Preservation of Natural and Cultural Resources (MS)
The lesson will allow students to analyze their community and see how natural features have changed overtime and how cultures try and preserve them.
objectives
• Students will analyze aerial photos to see how both natural and cultural environments change a community and land around it.
• Students will learn to carry out a digital search for aerial photos of a selected area.
• Students will explore the culture behind features a place possesses.
• Students will understand how technology can be used to preserve disappearing cultural and natural
resources.
Topic(s)
Digital imaging, culture, values, natural resources
type
Middle school lesson
6-8
Grade(s):
time needed
Three 50-minute class periods
author
Stephanie Day, Brittany Hagen
national next gen standards
• MS-LS2-5 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics: Evaluate competing design solutions for
maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.
• MS-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how
the uneven distributions of Earth's mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past
and current geoscience processes.
• MS-ESS3-3 Earth and Human Activity: Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring
and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
north dakota standards
• MS-LS2-5 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics: Evaluate competing design solutions for
maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.
• MS-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how
the uneven distributions of Earth's mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past
and current geoscience processes.
• MS-ESS3-3 Earth and Human Activity: Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring
and minimizing a human impact on the environment.