Human Impact on Environment Activities: Land Use, Urbanization, & Sustainability

This is an engaging bundle of environmental science activities on land use and urbanization. Students will learn about urban planning, heat islands, the history of urbanization, impacts of cities & climate change. Human impacts on the environment are interwoven throughout these lessons to provide students with a good basis for any environmental science or APES course. This activity set is the perfect addition to a sustainability unit in a high school Environmental Science course. Teacher pages, student pages, rubrics, and answer keys are all included and ready to use!

➤Please note: This is also part of my Land Use & Sustainability Unit and Full Environmental Science Curriculum.

Product includes:

1. Be a City Planner Activity - Students will use smart growth strategies to plan and organize a new city

• 1 teacher instruction page
• 2 student instruction pages
• 2 city design resource sheets
• Topics: industry/commerce, green space, mass transit, power generation, community, landscape, city planning

2. Heat Islands Activity - Students explore a Google Earth website to learn more about heat islands in Japan

• Answer key
• 1 student page
• Topics: heat island effect

3. Impacts of Urbanization - Students work with a group of students to research environmental impacts of urbanization and create a poster to share their findings

• 2 student instruction pages
• Grading rubric
• Topics: noise and light pollution, habitat fragmentation, runoff, importation of resources, air and water pollution

4. Sprawl - Students visit interactive maps and answer questions to learn more about sprawl

• Answer key
• 3 student pages
• Topics: urban sprawl (ribbon, leapfrog, low-density radial), land reclamation, smart growth, zoning, green space

5. Urban Issues in Developing and Developed Countries - Students explore issues related to urbanization in both developing and developed countries and consider those issues' impacts

• 2 student pages
• Topics: wealth distribution birth/mortality rates, industrialization rates

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➤Where can I find other Environmental Science Activity Bundles?

• Intro to Env Sci Activities
• Ecology & Symbiosis Activities
• Species & Population Growth Activities
• Biomes & Biodiversity Activities
• Plate Tectonics Activities
• Soil Erosion & Soil Conservation Labs & Activities
• Mining Impacts Labs & Activities
• Fossil Fuels & Renewable Energy Activities
• Freshwater Labs & Activities
• Marine and Fishing Labs & Activities
• Water Quality & Water Pollution Labs & Activities
• Land Use & Urbanization Activities
• Sustainable Agriculture Activities
• Sustainable Forestry Activities

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