Sustainable Development: Balancing Needs
Evaluating strategies to meet human needs while protecting the environment for the future, considering economic, social, and environmental pillars.
Key Questions
- Critique the idea that economic growth can occur without environmental destruction.
- Compare indigenous land management practices with industrial ones.
- Evaluate the role individual choices play in global sustainability efforts.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Suggested Methodologies
Ready to teach this topic?
Generate a complete, classroom-ready active learning mission in seconds.
Planning templates for Geography
More in Natural Resources and Economy
Types of Resources: Renewable vs. Non-renewable
Distinguishing between renewable and non-renewable resources and their global availability, use, and depletion.
2 methodologies
Resource Extraction and Environmental Impact
Students will investigate the geographic patterns of resource extraction and the environmental consequences of mining, drilling, and logging.
2 methodologies
Agriculture and Food Systems
Exploring the geography of food production, distribution, and consumption, including different agricultural practices and challenges to food security.
2 methodologies
Industrialization and Economic Sectors
Students will learn about the primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary economic sectors and their geographic distribution and evolution.
2 methodologies
Global Trade Networks and Interdependence
Analyzing how goods move across the world and the interdependence of nations through complex supply chains.
2 methodologies