SEEd - Environmental Science
Lesson Plans

Strand ENVS.3: AVAILABILITY, USE, AND MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

Natural resources are necessary for human society. How humans obtain and use resources have an impact on their quality/quantity of the resource and their surrounding environment. Resource location, quantity, and proportion may be dependent on environmental factors. Governments and organizations manage the use and effect of natural resources. Resource management plans provide a way to measure and sustain resources for long-term use and effects.

Standard ENVS.3.1

Construct an argument based on evidence for the effects humans have by obtaining and using natural resources. Emphasize the uses and importance of resources and potential impacts of obtaining them. Examples of human activities to obtain resources could include agriculture, ranching, mining, forestry, fishing, water use, or desalination.

• Water in Our World: Exploring Storage and Movement in Different Environments
  This resource is a USGS lesson plan designed to help teachers utilize the "Where is the Water" posters and images from the Modern Water Cycle collection by BYU. The resources emphasize the two-way connection between humans and water and examines the water cycle in various environments: desert, forest, urban, suburban, coastal, and agricultural.

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