APHG Unit 5
Unit 5: Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes
- Unit 5 Outline (like a vocabulary list)
- What's in your refrigerator?
- Settlement Patterns and Survey Methods PPT
- Unit 5 Open Book Map Quiz (work with a partner but turn in your own answers)
- MLK Day GeoInquiry: Dr. King's road to a Birmingham jail
- Pizza and the Columbian Exchange activity PPT: tasteatlas.com; origin of crops
- Unit 5 GeoInquiries
- Farming and the Rural Landscape
- Food Desert GIS Activity (PDF) (Word doc) Note: Instead of searching "Living Atlas" for #8, search under "ArcGIS Online"
- Three Agricultural Revolutions:
- Create a chart titled Three Agricultural Revolutions that includes: When? Where? What changed? Impact on history? of each of the revolutions. Read this article for more information on the Green Revolution: All You Wanted to Know About the Green Revolution
- FarmersOnly.com Project
- Story Map Assignment: Choose 1 of the following story maps to read, then write 3 paragraphs about it: 1st paragraph: summarize story map. 2nd paragraph: how much did you learn (give specific examples). 3rd paragraph: write your personal connection/reaction
- The Von Thunen Model
- Von Thunen Model applied to USA
- America Revealed: Food Machine (Questions)
- Food Machine Questions
- Women in Agriculture Assignment PPT (pdf version)
Enrichment
- Immigration and Agriculture
- The Agribusiness Debate: Food, Inc. (clip)
- The Agribusiness Debate: One Hungry Planet
- The Wizard and the Prophet - a presentation by the author Charles C. Mann
- Unit 5 Book Recommendation
- In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups--Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug's cry. Only in that way can everyone win! Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the four great challenges humanity faces--food, water, energy, climate change--grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author's insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.
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