ALEX Classroom Resources

   View Standards     Standard(s): [SS2010] HGEO (9-12) 3 :

3 ) Identify the characteristics, distribution, and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics.

•  Explaining essential aspects of culture, including social structure, languages, belief systems, customs, religion, traditions, art, food, architecture, and technology

[SS2010] HGEO (9-12) 10 :

10 ) Recognize how human-environmental interaction affects culture in today's society.

Examples: population growth in the Galapagos Islands damaging the environment of endemic plant and animal species, deforestation in the Pantanal affecting the world's largest freshwater ecosystem, green technologies affecting humans and the environment

John Green investigates the dawn of human civilization. John looks into how people gave up hunting and gathering to become agriculturalists and how that change has influenced the world we live in today. Also, there are some jokes about cheeseburgers.

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   View Standards     Standard(s): [SS2010] HGEO (9-12) 9 :

9 ) Explain how economic interdependence and globalization impact many countries and their populations.

•  Tracing the flow of commodities from one region to another

•  Comparing advantages and disadvantages of global trade agreements

[SS2010] HGEO (9-12) 10 :

10 ) Recognize how human-environmental interaction affects culture in today's society.

Examples: population growth in the Galapagos Islands damaging the environment of endemic plant and animal species, deforestation in the Pantanal affecting the world's largest freshwater ecosystem, green technologies affecting humans and the environment

Join host John Green to learn about water. People cannot live without water, which means it's absolutely necessary for civilization. In this episode, John talks about water in the context of classical civilizations, but not those of Greece or Rome. Instead, we'll explore the Maya civilization in Central America and the Khmer civilization in what is now Cambodia.

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