Humans, the Environment, and the Great Plains:
Lesson Plans
The lesson plans that follow should provide you with
some good starting places for using this web site or for teachng
other lessons to your students about the interrelationship of people
and the environment on the northern Great Plains. We hope you find
the lessons useful.
Although we have provided our assessment of grade
level, each lesson could easily be altered for other grades, though
some might be a bit too complex for younger students, even with
adjustments. You'll have to use your own judgement and creativity!
We have also given some thought to how long each
lesson might take, but this could take more or less time depending on
your needs and those of your students. Too, you might be able to add
or adjust elements in each lesson to meet teaching needs in other
than the primary and secondary courses listed.
Good luck with the lessons. If you use them, please
let us know by e-mail how each works out. If you make substantive
adjustments or think of new lesson plans, send us
an
e-mail (larry-zimmerman@uiowa.edu) with the
information in the format of the lessons here. We'll be happy to give
you full author credit for the lesson.
Lesson Titles
Feeding the
World From a Small Piece of Dirt
I'd Like Some Water to Drink, Please.
If Lewis and Clark Made Their Journey Today,
What Would They See?
Battlefield Earth: Geological Forces in
Action
Conflict Over Resources
Expanding Student Environmental
Awareness
Trees on the Plains: A Living Snowfence
Trees Rule!
Where Do Clouds Come From?
Excavating the Past on the Web
Building a City on the Northern Great
Plains
The Lifeblood of the Northern Plains
Outdoors Is Everywhere But Inside!
Living More Lightly
Watershed Pollution
Rain Game
Big Book Balance
Mitakuye Oyasin! With all things we shall be
as relatives!
Farming
People, Animals and Hunting
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The lesson plans above are either original
or adapted from lesson plans prepared by others. If the latter, they
are credited immediately after the lesson Plan
section. The lessons are copyrighted to the
University of South Dakota Archaeology Laboratory. You are granted
permission to use them on other web pages or in print so long as you
credit the US Environmental Protection Agency and the University of
South Dakota, leaving in the "adapted from" credit if that appears in the
lesson. In your credit,
please cite the URL http://www.usd.edu/anth/epa.
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