Lesson Type:

• Other

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Sustainability Topic:

• Waste Reduction

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GEF Program Category:

• Waste Reduction Challenge

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Standards Addressed:
Geography Standard 15: Understand how physical systems affect human systems.

• Benchmark # 1: Know ways in which human systems develop in response to conditions in the physical environment (e.g., site selection for a landfill in relation to water supplies).
• Benchmark # 4: Understand relationships between population density and environmental quality (e.g., the denser the population the greater the amount of waste produced).

Geography Standard 16: Understand the changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution and importance of resources.

• Benchmark # 2: Know strategies for wise management and use of resources (e.g., community programs for recycling and reuse).
• Benchmark # 5: Understand the role of technology in resource acquisition and use, and its impact on the environment (e.g., rates of resource consumption among countries of high or low levels of technology).

Geography Standard 18: Understand global development and environmental issues.

• Benchmark # 2: Understand the possible impact that present conditions and patterns of consumption, production and population growth might have on the future spatial organization of Earth.
• Benchmark # 4: Understand why different points of view exist regarding contemporary geographic issues (e.g., the UK managing 90% of their solid waste by burying it in landfills as opposed to other countries who are reducing their landfill usage).

Technology Standard 3: Understand the relationship among science, technology, society and the individual.

• Benchmark # 3: Know ways in which technology has influenced the course of history (e.g., improvements in sanitation and waste management- garbage dump vs. sanitary landfill).

Health Standard 2: Know environmental and external factors that affect individual and community health.

• Benchmark # 3: Know ways local, state, federal and international efforts to contain an environmental crisis and prevent recurrence (e.g., solid waste contamination).

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Lesson Documents:
A Look at a Landfill.Lesson.pdf

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Lesson Documents:
ALookAtaLandfill.pdf

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Lesson Documents:
ALookataLandfillWorksheet.pdf

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