From boomtown to ghost town
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/16/g35/boomtown.html
A lesson plan for grade 5 Social Studies
In order to fully understand the geographic concept of natural resource use, students should learn about the ways that resource extraction affects the physical and human landscape. In this lesson, provided by National Geographic, they’ll discuss how a specific economic activity in a region can facilitate the creation of towns, which often turn into ghost towns if the economic activity ends.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Social Studies (2003)
Grade 5
- Goal 5: The learner will evaluate ways the United States and other countries of North America make decisions about the allocation and use of economic resources.
- Objective 5.02: Analyze the economic effects of the unequal distribution of natural resources on the United States and its neighbors.
