AP Environmental Science Class Earth and Human Activity:

Lesson 1- Natural Resources and Hazards

Objectives for today’s lesson:

1. Students will develop their knowledge on natural resources and hazards through lecture
and research.
2. Students will write the ways in which they consume natural resources and utilize digital
tools and technologies to understand their effects.
3. Students will read and research natural and anthropogenic impacts, both positive and
negative, on the environment.
4. Students will learn through utilization of the computational simulations the effects of
natural disasters and the significance of natural resources management.
Assignments:
1. Resources, Locations, and Citations
2. STOP Disasters
 Guided Notes
1. Natural Resources
a. Definition:
i. List natural resources that you use every day
1. _____________________
2. _____________________
3. ______________________
4. ______________________
5. ______________________
6. ______________________
7. ______________________
8. ______________________
9. ______________________
10. ______________________
b. Natural resources can be used
i. ___________
ii. ___________
c. Two types of natural resources are
i. ___________
ii. ___________

Diagram

d. Renewable resource examples

 i. __________
ii. Clarification question
1. How are winds a source of energy?
a.
iii. Elaborating question
1. Are they constant?
a.
iv. Hypothetical question
1. What if we do not have wind?
a.
e. Non-renewable resource examples
i. __________
ii. What will happen if we use up all of the non-renewable resources?
1.
2. What do you use?
a. Natural resources are
i. __________________ (meaning limited)
ii. ____________________ distributed

Assignment 2: Graph Questions

1. What is the first diagram explaining?

2. Which disasters have increased in number since 1995?

3. Describe what the second graph is trying to relay.

4. List some potential reasons as to why there was an increase in resources per capita from
1985 and in 1995?

5. Did the graph and distribution image make you feel differently about your resource
consumption?
 b. Sustain
i. Your definition:
ii. Partner’s definition:
iii. Definition:
iv. With the amount of people on the planet can we sustain our natural
resources forever?

Assignment 1: Resources, Locations, and Citations

Resource Location Citation

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.
c. Questions
i. Can we share these resources equally?
1.
ii. Can we make sure that people in developing countries have access to what
people in developed countries have?
1.
iii. How?
1.
iv. Can we do that without damaging the planet?
1.

3. Natural Hazards
a. Definition-
 i. Examples:
b. Positives
i.
c. Negatives
i.
d. Categories
i. ______________
ii. ______________
e. s

Assignment 3: STOP Disasters

1. What did you learn?
a.
2. Did you stop the disaster?
a.