Six lessons for which instructional support and teaching steps are provided in the unit curriculum guide. Each lessons unfolds in four stages: Inquiry, Observation, Analysis, Synthesis. In this unit students examine connections between people and their environment. They begin surveying their own environment and considering their relationship with it. They go on to study relationships between Americans and environment in the context of four different historic episodes in the period of rapid growth and development between the Civil War and World War I.
