Lesson Four: Human Interaction

This lesson reviews what human environmental interaction is. The lesson dives deeper
into how humans can interact with the many different landforms that are present in the United
States. It also talks about how the way humans interact with the land can affect the lives of many
different people.
Objective
Recall what human
environmental interaction
means

Identify which human

interaction goes with each
landform when working in a
group

Standard
G1.0.2 Use cardinal and
intermediate directions to
describe the relative location of
significant places in the United
States.
G1.0.3 Identify and describe the
characteristics and purposes of a
variety of geographic tools and
technologies.
G1.0.4 Use geographic tools and
technologies, stories, songs, and
pictures to answer geographic
questions about the United
States.

Interdisciplinary
ART.D.I.4.1 Demonstrate
basic locomotor skills
through moving forward,
backward, and sideway

Assessments:
For the preassessment, I asked students to think about a place that had a lot of mountains.
Then they were asked to think about the activities that humans do there and how they interact
with the environment.
During the lesson, students had to sort human interactions into groups. They were asked
to organize and create groups in the way that made the most sense to them. Then, they were
given categories (based on landforms) and had to re-sort the human interactions in order to fit
into each category.
Students were asked to act out different human interactions as a summative assessment
and the rest of the class would guess which interaction was being acted out.