UNIT 5

Land and Water Use

THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF LAND AND

WATER USE PRACTICES

5.1The Tragedy of the Commons

5.2Clearcutting
5.3The Green Revolution
5.4Impact of Agricultural Practices
5.5Irrigation Methods
5.6Pest Control Methods
5.7Meat Production Methods
5.8Impacts of Overfishing
5.9Impacts of Mining
5.10 Impacts of Urbanization

ENDURING UNDERSTANDING
When humans use natural resources, they
alter natural systems.
GUIDE TO MAKING EACH PRESENTATION

This is a collaborative assignment, completed in small

groups. Each group will add pages to this Google Slide
presentation until we have a whole learning base, shared for
everyone to work with and from.

The assignment will culminate in a summative assessment.

● Each group starts with a Topic from the Unit.

● “What does APES Say?” forms the first page of the Topic.
This includes:
○ LEARNING OBJECTIVES
○ ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE
● The task of the group is to add pages to the
presentation which expand on the Learning Objectives and
Essential Knowledge in a way which provides the
necessary learning for that Topic.

There are a wealth of resources available, many of them

specific to APES. You should use (and cite) several
different resources, which might include:
● The digital textbook
● YouTube, TedEd and other videos, which can be linked and
described
● Powerpoints, Canva, Slides, Prezi, etc presentations
● Khan Academy, ck-12 and other academic web pages
● Blogs and teachers’ internet pages
● Images

The focus of the presentations is very much the negative

impacts which different practices have on the environment.

Nevertheless, all these practices initially were launched or

happened for positive reasons and these should be stated.

It is not your work in these presentations to focus on how

the negative impacts can be corrected; that comes later.

The next slide gives you a guide to the the questions which
you should attempt to answer.
CONTENT IN EACH OF THE PRESENTATIONS

● Explain what it is that you are presenting. This might

be a definition or explanation or description.
● Describe the positive impacts and benefits.
● Describe the negative impacts and harm which results,
specifically to the environment and for the human
population.
● Provide data and figures.
● Research and provide links for extension learning or
understanding. (If any of the content of these links is
fundamental to the Topic, then that content must be
included in this Slides presentation.)
● Add images if they help understanding of the content.
● Make sure that your focus all the time is on the APES
content:
○ ENDURING UNDERSTANDING
○ LEARNING OBJECTIVES
○ ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE
● Make sure that readers and viewers of your presentation
can easily find their way around the content.
ASSESSMENT RUBRIC
The presentations will be assessed according to
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