A guided discussion about desertification, including causes, effects, impacts on human health, and solutions, after watching the History Channel video “Black Blizzard” about the Dust Bowl of the 1930s in the United States.

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Discipline
Earth and Space Sciences
Grade Level
6-8
9-12
Lesson Area
Soil Conservation
Lesson Type
Activity
Lesson Keywords
Erosion
History
degradation
Desertification
Dust Bowl
Land Management
Soil Conservation

Next Generation Science Standards

Grade Discipline Core Idea
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.