In this hands-on session, engage in activities exploring connections between population, resource use, land use and environmental quality from the Industrial Revolution to the present. Topics covered include agricultural expansion and potential limits, resource extraction, pollution, climate change and habit loss. Receive lesson plans and background readings in an electronic format, matched to the California History-Social Science Framework.
Alexander von Humboldt pioneered the disciplines of biogeography and New World archaeology. Humboldt simply showed latitude and altitude mirror each other. He mapped life at each vegetation zone and also pioneered exploration of Inca and Aztec cities.
Teachers and students can easily apply Humboldt’s observations: 1) What vegetation zones are in California? 2) Why? 3) Where is the tree line?
