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Resource Use – From Sustenance to Sustainability

Atlas themes	Teaching level	Province/Territory
Mining	Secondary (9-12)	Manitoba

Students will research how societies’ use of natural resources has changed over time with the past being focussed on sustenance/survival to the present being centred on sustainability and survival.

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