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Day 1 - Pretest
Day 2 - Students examine the significance of the location of shopping malls. Huntsville, Alabama, is used as an example to illustrate that different human activities have different location requirements.
Day 3 - Students examine the land use around a mall area. They investigate human-built and natural features in the area surrounding the Madison Square Mall in Huntsville, Alabama.
Day 4 - Students examine the land use around a mall area. They investigate human-built and natural features in the area surrounding the Madison Square Mall in Huntsville, Alabama. They use basic elements of aerial photo interpretation (including tone, size, texture, pattern, shadow, site, and association) to aid in identifying objects in aerial photographs.
Day 5 - Students investigate how shopping malls change natural environments. Students study a mall and its immediate surroundings to understand concepts involved in the formation of urban heat islands.
Day 6 - Students are introduced to the main reasons an urban heat island occurs. Students will explain how communities can use certain heat island reduction strategies to reduce the impact of an urban heat island effect.
Day 7 - Students investigate the formation of urban heat islands. Atlanta, Georgia is used as a case study. Students use satellite images of downtown Atlanta and its suburbs to examine temperature patterns of these areas.
Day 8 - Students interpret land use maps of the greater Atlanta area to understand environmental issues that are typically associated with sprawl.
Day 9 - Students interpret features in aerial photographs of the Lehigh Valley area. Students examine the significance of the location of shopping malls in the Lehigh Valley area. Students examine and compare the land use around five mall areas in the Lehigh Valley.
Day 10 -Students identify man-made and natural features in the Lehigh Valley. They provide evidence (tone, size, shape, texture, pattern, shadow, site, and/or association) to support their identifications.
Day 11 - Students identify man-made and natural features in the Lehigh Valley. They provide evidence (tone, size, shape, texture, pattern, shadow, site, and/or association) to support their identifications.
Day 12 - Students understand how satellites use remote sensing to produce images. Students recognize that the earth’s surface has different basic land surfaces that reflect/emit different radiation. Students will identify and interpret features on Landsat images.
Day 13 - Students use remotely sensed images to recognize land use patterns of diverse areas in our world. They also examine and interpret time-sequenced satellite data and aerial photographs of urban areas to interpret geographic growth patterns. In addition, they examine landscape changes over time through analysis and interpretation of satellite data images and aerial photographs.
Day 14 - Students recommend a plan for locating a new Wal-Mart Supercenter in the greater metropolitan Lehigh Valley area to have minimal impact on the environment. Students use Google Earth to analyze and evaluate features of different land areas for proposed development sites. They will apply “smart growth” principles to their planning decisions.
Day 15 - Students will recommend a plan for locating a new Wal-Mart Supercenter in the greater metropolitan Lehigh Valley area to have minimal impact on the environment. Students will use Google Earth to analyze and evaluate features of different land areas for proposed development sites. They will apply “smart growth” principles to their planning decisions.
Day 16 - Students will recommend a plan for locating a new Wal-Mart Supercenter in the greater metropolitan Lehigh Valley area to have minimal impact on the environment. They will develop a proposal that applies “smart growth” principles to their planning decisions.
Day 17 - Students will develop a presentation for locating a new Wal-Mart Supercenter in the greater metropolitan Lehigh Valley area to have minimal impact on the environment. Students will plan to communicate “smart growth” principles to their audience in a simulated planning commission meeting.
Day 18 - Students will develop a presentation for locating a new Wal-Mart Supercenter in the greater metropolitan Lehigh Valley area to have minimal impact on the environment. They will communicate their planning decisions to their audience in a simulated planning commission meeting.
Day 19 - Students will communicate their planning decisions for locating a new Wal-Mart Supercenter in the greater metropolitan Lehigh Valley area to have minimal impact on the environment in a simulated planning commission meeting.
Day 20 - Posttest
Environmental Issues: Land Use Change
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