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Standards Index: Topic 8.13: The Environment and Natural Resources from 1968 to 1980

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Skill 5.A: Identify patterns or connections between historical developments.

Theme 3: Geography and the (GEO).

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The Environment and Natural Resources: Wild Horses

Students will learn about efforts in the early 1970s to enhance environmental regulation and species protections and what happens when those policies lead to conflict – in this case over the wild horse.
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The Birth of the Environmental Movement: DDT and Rachel Carson

Students will learn how the U.S. government came to develop environmental protection policies and what that means today as we struggle to balance the risk between pesticides and disease.