Entry Task:How do you think humans impact the environment? Give a positive and a negative way.

Unit 5 - Overview Posted on the blog! Human Environment Interaction: Human Environment

Interaction looks at the relationships between people and their environment. These relationships have both positive and negative affects on the environment. Human Environment Interaction focuses on how people adapt to, depend on, and modify their environment.  For example, in tropical areas people adapt to the weather by wearing shorts and t-shirts instead of winter coats, depend on the wildlife and plants for food, and modify the land to grow crops and create farmland.

Essential Questions: How do people depend on the environment? How to people adapt to the environment? How do people modify the environment? What are the relationships among people and places? How have people changed the environment to better suit their needs?

Ask yourself…How do people affect the

environment? How do you affect your environment everyday?

How does the environment affect people?

Interactive Notebook:

Title = Introduction to HEI

Right Side = Article & Notes

READ ARTICLE! Take notes!

Human Environment Interaction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfGMYdalClU

When we study Human-Environment Interaction we look at all the effects (both positive and negative) that occur when people interact with the environment.

There are three key concepts to human/environmental interaction:

Humans adapt to the environment.

Humans modify the environment.

Humans depend on the environment.

ModifyPeople change the environment.

How can we modify our environment?Bringing water to our homesCut down treesFlatten out land to make roads Clearing land for farms Any other ideas?

AdaptPeople adjust to the environment.

How do we adapt to our environment?

Climate affects clothing and housing

Wearing suitable clothing (summer vs. winter)

Heating / cooling our homesAny other ideas?

DependPeople need the environment.

Examples: fishing, farming, hunting

Any other examples?

Interactive Notebook: 1) Environment

2) Depend3) Adapt4) Modify5) Deforestation6) Pollution7) Natural Resources 8) Climate Change9) Greenhouse Effect10)Global Warming11)Fossil Fuels 12)Natural Disasters

DIRECTIONS: 1.) Write the definition of each word. You may use a dictionary or http://kids.wordsmyth.net as your sources.

2.) Draw a picture to represent the meaning of each word.

3.) Challenge – Use each word in a sentence.