Resource Overview
As the instructor reads a story about the history of the world’s oceans, students act as characters adding and removing items based on real-world events.
Students will be able to:
- List the principal pollutants in our world’s oceans.
- Describe how humans have altered the ocean ecosystem over time.
- Discuss ways to preserve ocean health.
Features of This Resource
- Environmental impacts of industrialization on the world’s oceans
- Provides students with an opportunity for historical inquiry
- Students use chronological thinking and historical reasoning
- Lesson is great for the human-environment theme of geography
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