Activity:  Assessment of skill at producing a geographical analysis using Gersmehl's method.

Pre-Activity:  Examination of Landsat maps of land use over time.

Do Now:  Prepare to create an analysis of three landsat images over time.

Aim:  To provide evidence of KSAs to apply geographical analysis to Landsat imagery.

Major Assignment:  Student assessment.

Processes, Skills, Goals:  Use Landsat data to help explain land use and its effect on local water habitat.  Develop and use intuitive spatial analysis skills to examine local land use its effect on ecology.  

Content:  Change over time and predictive models.

Instructions:  Give exam.

Materials:  Exam with Landsat images of new location.

Guiding Questions:  Provide Gersmehl's hierarchy.

Homework:  Consider how we might enter society's dialogue on land use decisions affecting the future.