CONTENT STATEMENT
- People have modified the environment throughout history resulting in both positive and negative consequences in Ohio and the United States.
CONTENT ELABORATION
As students look at the cause and effect of human modification to the environment, they understand the positive and negative consequences of these changes.
Students explain the positive and negative consequences of human modifications to the environment in Ohio and the United States.
Examples of modifications to the environment include:
construction of farms and towns;
transportation systems;
fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides; and
destruction of wetlands and forests.
EXPECTATIONS FOR LEARNING
Explain why human modifications to the environment are positive and/or negative.