As students look at geographic issues, they identify different types of interactions. They might look at the interaction between human systems and physical systems (how do physical systems cause people to adapt, how do people impact physical systems). They might also look at human systems impacting human systems (how do human systems impact other human systems, what happens when one human system impacts another human system).
This simulation (Village to Industrial Town in 21 Stages) allows students to sense how a place changes over time, and how places solve different geographic solve. In some cases, the solutions create additional geographic issues to try and solve.
While teachers do not have the textbook that's referenced in the simulation, this is a great starting place for examining the change in places over time...and how each change reflects a solution at one moment in time.
In a student's world of growing facts and information, we can't expect them to learn more and more and more. We have to help them connect the facts to more enduring concepts and "understandings." By elevating concepts, we give them the conceptual lens for making sense of their world. When we allow them to do this type of thinking, that's when the learning begins to make sense.
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