Cities as Population Centers
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A lesson plan for Grade 6 Science
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- Appropriate grades
- 6
- Subjects
- science (environmental science)
- Provider
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
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This Science NetLinks lesson is the third of a sequence of five lessons, teaching students the unprecedented size and number of modern urban ecosystems. Students will visit websites that deal with urban population, fossil fuel consumption, and the signals (such as carbon dioxide emissions) that can be used to track population changes. The class will then create a “letter to the grandkids,” which will tell the grandkids how important fossil fuels were to the growth of cities and how the signal of fossil fuel use showed up in the atmosphere.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grade 6
- Goal 7: The learner will conduct investigations and use technologies and information systems to build an understanding of population dynamics.
- Objective 7.04: Evaluate data related to human population growth, along with problems and solutions:
- Waste disposal.
- Food supplies.
- Resource availability.
- Transportation.
- Socio-economic patterns.
- Objective 7.04: Evaluate data related to human population growth, along with problems and solutions:
