Anthropocene: What is the impact of humans on the world?
Why this, why now
This unit teaches pupils about how humans have affected our world by looking at environmental issues such as plastic pollution and the impact of fossil fuel use. The unit leads pupils to question whether we are in a new geological epoch.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Ardaydu waa inay yaqaanaan aasaaska maadada.
- Ardaydu waa inay awoodaan inay raacaan tilmaamo fudud.
Unit 6 / 6
Anthropocene: What is the impact of humans on the world?
This unit teaches pupils about how humans have affected our world by looking at environmental issues such as plastic pollution and the impact of fossil fuel use. The unit leads pupils to question whether we are in a new geological epoch.
14 lessons- Evidence of the Anthropocene
- Fieldwork: Planning an air pollution enquiry and collecting data
- Fieldwork: Analysing, concluding and evaluating air pollution data
- Alternative energy supplies
- Fieldwork: Presenting air pollution data
- Phasing out fossil fuels
- Global governance
- An introduction to the Anthropocene
- Our future climate
- Threats to oceans
- The human impact on ecosystems
- Plastic pollution
- Sustainability: A new way of living
- The impact of consumption