Effects of land use and meeting multiple human demands on agricultural landscapes
This is a 2-part lesson plan designed to be used in a 50-minute period in a middle school or high school classroom. The first exercise in this lesson plan asks students to explore the effects of three basic land-use scenarios in the PEWI watershed. After recording results, students discuss patterns, similarities, and differences among the scenarios. The second exercise in the lesson plan builds on the first exercise. Students design their own land use in the watershed to meet multiple human demands of agricultural landscapes, considering the following questions:
- What benefits do I get from different land uses?
- What benefits do I want agricultural watersheds to provide?
- What land uses should go next to the stream?
- What land uses do better in wet years? dry years?
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