{"id":103,"date":"2020-04-07T02:07:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T02:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2020-04-15T19:49:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T19:49:31","slug":"land-use-and-the-chesapeake-bay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/geoinquiries-for-virginia\/land-use-and-the-chesapeake-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Use &amp; the Chesapeake Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\">Virginia GeoInquiry 6<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19161\/2020\/04\/640px-Chesapeakelandsat-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-117\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19161\/2020\/04\/640px-Chesapeakelandsat-1.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19161\/2020\/04\/640px-Chesapeakelandsat-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19161\/2020\/04\/640px-Chesapeakelandsat-1-541x406.jpeg 541w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of Virginia&#8217;s major rivers drain into the Chesapeake Bay, the Potomac, Rapahannock, York, and the James rivers. This GeoInquiry examines how people affect the environment of the Chesapeake Bay through various economic activities: shipbuilding, shipping, fishing, agriculture, and manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As this GeoInquiry addresses the Virginia Science Standards, it uses the framework of the 5 Es:  <strong>E<\/strong>ngage,<strong> E<\/strong>xplore,  <strong>E<\/strong>xplain<strong>, E<\/strong>laborate, and <strong>E<\/strong>valuate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Questions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Where is the Chesapeake Bay region?<\/li><li>How big is the Chesapeake Bay?<\/li><li>How does landcover vary throughout the region?<\/li><li>How does land use affect runoff  into the Bay?<\/li><li>Why are sustainable farming practices important?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\">Land Use and the Chesapeake Bay Web Map<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code><div class=\"insert_map_iframe_container insert_map_iframe_container-left\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/Embed\/index.html?webmap=728afb4279eb4e90a9073703bcd39b79&amp;extent=-88.4187,34.6879,-62.5349,45.7986&alignment=left\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:left\">Materials<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19161\/2020\/04\/VA-GeoInquiry-6-Land-Use-and-the-Chesapeake-Bay.pdf\">Teacher: <\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"VA GeoInquiry 6; Land Use and the Chesapeake Bay (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19161\/2020\/04\/VA-GeoInquiry-6-Land-Use-and-the-Chesapeake-Bay.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19161\/2020\/04\/VA-GeoInquiry-6-Land-Use-and-the-Chesapeake-Bay.pdf\">VA GeoInquiry 6; Land Use and the Chesapeake Bay<\/a><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19161\/2020\/04\/VA-GeoInquiry-6-Land-Use-and-the-Chesapeake-Bay.pdf\">Students: <\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"VA Geo 6 Student Worksheet (Google Docs) (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1ozWdWd7bXlVyAUemCGLNJ88nRlWc0o0cB-9GuMk3iDs\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19161\/2020\/04\/VA-GeoInquiry-6-Land-Use-and-the-Chesapeake-Bay.pdf\">VA Geo 6 Student Worksheet (Google Docs)<\/a><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19161\/2020\/04\/VA-GeoInquiry-6-Land-Use-and-the-Chesapeake-Bay.pdf\">Web Map: <\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"bit.ly\/VAGeo6 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/VAGeo6\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19161\/2020\/04\/VA-GeoInquiry-6-Land-Use-and-the-Chesapeake-Bay.pdf\">bit.ly\/VAGeo6<\/a><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia GeoInquiry 6 Most of Virginia&#8217;s major rivers drain into the Chesapeake Bay, the Potomac, Rapahannock, York, and the James rivers. This GeoInquiry examines how people affect the environment of the Chesapeake Bay through various economic activities: shipbuilding, shipping, fishing, agriculture, and manufacturing. As this GeoInquiry addresses the Virginia Science Standards, it uses the framework &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/geoinquiries-for-virginia\/land-use-and-the-chesapeake-bay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Land Use &amp; the Chesapeake Bay<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"parent":66,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions\/308"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vageoinquiries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}