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Human Changes to the Environment

This activity involves exploring key terms related to human modifications to the environment as societies transitioned from hunter-gatherer lifestyles to agricultural practices. Participants will define important concepts such as irrigation, tilling, dikes, levees, canals, dams, and slash-and-burn farming. By working collaboratively, groups will create their definitions and visualize them on a dry erase board. This exercise highlights the adaptations and innovations that humans have made to utilize resources and shape their landscapes for successful farming.

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Human Changes to the Environment

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  1. Human Changes to the Environment

  2. What does your group think these words mean? • Irrigation • Tilling • Dike • Levee • Canal • Dam • Slash-and-burn farming

  3. Predict with your group what you think your word means. • Come up with a definition as a group and write it on your dry erase board

  4. When hunter-gatherers began to settle, they had to make certain ADAPTATIONS or MODIFICATIONS to their PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT.

  5. Irrigation • A system of transporting water to crops

  6. Slash-and-burn farming • Cutting down and burning all trees in an area to make the land ready for farming

  7. Tilling • To plow the land for the raising of crops

  8. Dike/Levee • Strips of elevated land along a river

  9. Canal • An artificial waterway for navigation and irrigation

  10. Dam • A barrier to obstruct the flow of water

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