Students explore how human societies across history have changed their environments — from early agriculture to industrialisation — and consider the long-term consequences.
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Teach: environment, deforestation, irrigation, industrial, consequence, reversible, sustainable. Connect to geography curriculum — many students will have explored these concepts there.
Use the local environment as the primary example — what has changed here, and why?
Can students give two historical examples of human environmental impact? Can they distinguish between reversible and permanent changes?
Entirely discussion-based. Connect to the students' own observable environment as the primary evidence.
Students sometimes think environmental destruction is a modern problem. Showing that deforestation, soil exhaustion, and species loss are ancient problems contextualises the current crisis historically.
Environmental history is one of the fastest growing fields in the discipline. It connects history directly to the most pressing contemporary challenge and shows that human-environment relationships have always been complex.
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