Story Map -- A World Of Forests
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Description: Explains importance of trees to human sustainability, includes graphics, maps and photos
Grade Levels: 3-5, 6-8
Keywords: Deforestation, soil conservation
Lesson Area: Soil Conservation
Resource Type: Interactive Website
Next Generation Science Standards
| Grade | Discipline | Core Idea |
|---|---|---|
| PreK-2 | ESS3.C: Human impacts on Earth systems | Things people do can affect the environment but they can make choices to reduce their impacts. |
| 3-5 | ESS3.C: Human impacts on Earth systems | Societal activities have had major effects on the land, ocean, atmosphere, and even outer space. Societal activities can also help protect Earth's resources and environments. |
| 6-8 | ESS3.C: Human impacts on Earth systems | Human activities have altered the biosphere, sometimes damaging it, although changes to environments can have different impacts for different living things. Activities and technologies can be engineered to reduce people's impacts on Earth. |
| 9-12 | ESS3.C: Human impacts on Earth systems | Sustainability of human societies and the biodiversity that supports them requires responsible management of natural resources, including the development of technologies. |
| 3-5 | LS4.D: Biodiversity and humans | Populations of organisms live in a variety of habitats. Change in those habitats affects the organisms living there. |
| 6-8 | LS4.D: Biodiversity and humans | Changes in biodiversity can influence humans' resources and ecosystem services they rely on. |