Grade 8 Overall Expectations
Application: analyse some significant interrelationships between Earth’s physical features and processes and human settlement patterns, and some ways in which the physical environment and issues of sustainability may affect settlement in the future
- Mapmaker Interactive (interactive resource, National Geographic website)
- Earth’s Resources: Geo Facts (eBook, WPL databases)
- Canadian Geography (article, The Canada Guide)
- Population Patterns: What Factors Determine the Location and Growth of Human Settlements? (eBook, WPL databases)
- Mapping the Physical World (eBook, WPL databases)
- Settlement Patterns (article, Primary School Geography Encyclopedia)
- Settlement Patterns in Canada (article, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains)
Inquiry: use the geographic inquiry process to investigate issues related to the interrelationship between human settlement and sustainability from a geographic perspective
- Factors that Influence Settlement Patterns (article, Classroom)
- What Is GIS? (article, WPL databases)
- Cartography (encyclopedia entry, WPL databases)
- What is a Sustainable Community? (article, Institute for Sustainable Communities)
Understanding Geographic Context: demonstrate an understanding of significant patterns and trends related to human settlement and of ways in which human settlement affects the environment
- Rivers: The Source of Life (article, via Primary Search)
- Canada: Settlement Patterns (encyclopedia entry, Encyclopedia Britannica)
- Resource Library: Using the Land (Educational Activity Guide, National Geographic)