Appendix on Implementing District Standards.
The lessons covered within this unit could be taught in AFNR, Social Studies, Environmental Science, Civics, and History classes. The competencies and specific aspects of this unit that I am aligning to them are listed below.
AFNR.1.2 – Career Exploration
Explore careers in environmental science, GIS, urban planning, and agriculture.
AFNR.2.2 – Use of Tools and Technologies
Use of mapping tools (paper and digital), GIS platforms, and topographic model-making.
AFNR.4.1 – Understand Food, Agriculture & Environmental Systems
Examine how geography, environment, and infrastructure shape food systems and resource access.
AFNR.4.2 – Environmental Justice & Sustainability
Use maps (e.g., redlining, Du Bois, StoryMaps) to analyze historical and current environmental injustice.
AFNR.4.3 – Ecosystem Science Basics
Apply concepts like topography and watershed flow to understand natural systems.
AFNR.5.1 – Real World Learning/SAE/Service Learning
Community mapping, walk audits, and civic storytelling through StoryMaps and public presentations.
EfS 1: Systems Thinking
Analyze interconnected systems like urban development, transportation, food distribution, and watershed dynamics.
EfS 2: Sustainable Economics
Explore how land use, zoning, and food systems affect economic sustainability and equity.
EfS 3: Sense of Place
Deep exploration of Philadelphia’s past, present, and imagined future through maps and field-based learning.
EfS 4: Equity
Use historical and modern maps (e.g., redlining, Du Bois, Erica Fisher's Race Maps) to uncover inequities.
EfS 6: Visioning
Create future-oriented maps and stories that propose sustainable, just improvements to city landscapes.
EfS 7: Personal Action
Students develop community-engaged projects and propose policy or design solutions based on spatial analysis.
SS.1.1 – Analyze historical and contemporary events
Study events like urban renewal, redlining, and the founding of Philadelphia.
SS.2.1 – Analyze multiple perspectives and power dynamics
Interpret maps that reflect different perspectives and narratives (e.g., settler vs. Lenape, elite vs. marginalized communities).
SS.3.2 – Identify local and global causes and effects
Connect geographic features and planning decisions to environmental and social outcomes.
SS.4.1 – Display and explain spatial patterns
Use maps to show demographic, environmental, and infrastructural trends.
SS.4.3 – Use and evaluate tools of geography
Practice analog and digital mapping, walk audits, and GIS storytelling.
SS.5.1 – Create and communicate geographic stories or data
Develop StoryMaps and physical maps that present evidence-based narratives.
SS.6.1 – Make a plan and manage a task
Apply project management and teamwork in map-based design and research.
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