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Morgan Casement Stephanie Sheppard GEOGRAPHY 323 B STATISTICS CANADA LESSON ACTIVITY Outdoor Recreation and Environmental Stress OVERVIEW: This lesson will allow students to explore and utilize the Statistics Canada internet site. Students will be using ESTAT and Statistics Canada to retrieve tabular data. Students will also retrieve an article from ESTAT. Students will then have the opportunity to work with the data they found by creating graphs and critically analysing the data by answering questions. Students will also answer questions pertaining to the article and be forced to thinking critically about the effect humans are having on the environment by participating in outdoor recreational activities. OBJECTIVES: To read a table and analyze data To recognize the trends in outdoor recreational use To recognize the trends in television watching and amount of time spent exercising To think critically about how outdoor recreational activities are affecting the environment OVERALL EXPECTATIONS: This lesson would fit into the Human-Environment Interaction strand and meet the overall expectation listed below. Human-Environment Interactions. People are an integral part of the natural environment. The natural environment affects people’s lives in many fundamental ways, and people in turn affect the environment through their policies and activities. A similar relationship exists between people and their urban, cultural, and economic environments. Students need to understand these relationships in order to analyse the human consequences of natural events and the effects of human decisions on the environment. Overall Expectations By the end of the course, students will: analyse the ways in which natural systems interact with human systems, then make predictions about the outcomes of these interactions; SUGGESTED GRADE LEVEL: Grade 9 academic Geography of Canada SPECIFIC EXPECTATIONS: This lesson meets the following specific expectations: dem