Grade
5: BC Communities and Their Resources
Teacher
Resource - Understanding the Land
The main purpose
of the exercise is to have students think about how natural environments
shape culture and are in turn shaped by human activities. There
are various possible answers to some of the questions asked on the
handout I am the Land. Below are some suggested responses.
1. What are
my main geographic features?
- rivers, lakes,
swamps
- mountains
and hills
- valley
2. What animals
and plants live in these environments?
- fish
- frogs and
fish
- forests,
ferns, etc.
- various kinds
of animal life
3. How can human
beings use the environments I provide?
- rivers, lakes,
and swamps for fishing
- mountains
for hunting and trapping and for timber and firewood
- valleys for
shelter, farming, and raising domestic animals
- mining for
gold
4. How have
humans changed me in the last hundred years?
- draining
lakes
- building
dikes
- constructing
highways
- building
housing
- diverting
rivers
- clearing
forests for farming
- digging up
the land for mining
5. Why have
humans changed me?
- need for
housing
- need for
land for farming
- protection
against flooding
- mining activities
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