1. culture natural social humans study built environments relationship
Task 1: Watch the YouTube clip on ‘Human Ecology’ on our weebly, then define the term using the words below:
culture
natural
social
humans
study
built
environments
relationship
ecosystems

3. Task 2: Copy into your class notes: Human Ecology is the study
of the relationship between
humans and their natural, built
and social environments, for
example cultures and
ecosystems.

4. Unit Title: Social Justice
Focus Question: How can I make a difference?
Learning Intention:
To understand what human ecology means to the Catholic Church
Success Criteria: To complete a higher level thinking task relating to the topic.
Last Lesson
Church Action
This Lesson
Human Ecology
Next Lesson
Environment

5. What is the most important human relationship?
Every human being has a multitude of diverse relationships to others, but...
Which relationships are important to/ for you?
How and why are these relationships important?
How do other people influence you, your conscience and actions?
What is the most important human relationship?

6. Which issue causes the most concern?
Due to the changing relationships humans have to one another, the Church also had to respond to these new developments in the last 100 years. Some of these changes are shown in the YouTube clip on our weebly called ’100 years in 10 minutes’.
Task 3: While watching the clip, do the following: a) List at least 5 issues related to human ecology. b) Answer: What is missing from the video?
Which issue causes the most concern?

7. Think: What new issues do you predict the Church will have to address in the next 100 years?
Task 4: List one or two possible issues and explain them. For example try to answer:
What is the issue?
When and where will it be important?
Why might it develop?
How is it significant to the Church?

8. Catholic Church’s response
Reference example:
In text: (Catholic Online 2016)
In reference list: Catholic Online 2016, Vatican Summary of Encyclical 'Caritas in Veritate‘, (accessed 10 Apr. 2016).
Catholic Church’s response
The focus on Human Ecology has increased in the last 20 years, but human relationships with creation and others has always been important.
Pope Benedict XVI focused on human ecology in Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth) – a social encyclical published in 2009.
Task 5: Read the Vatican summary (see link on our weebly) and try to paraphrase in less than 50 words what Benedict is saying.

9. Choose your own task based on your confidence on the topic!
Identify and describe three relationships you have to other people.
Explain why human ecology seems to be more important today than ever.
What 5 questions could you ask in an interview with a Catholic Church representative in regards to human ecology?
Think about 5 different relationships you have to other people who you would listen to for advice. Then write down in % how important their advice would be to you. (1% is not important, 99% is very important. All together should equal 100%.) Explain why some people’s advice is more important to you than others.
Do task 4 first, then use Word or Excel to make a pie graph showing whose advice is most important to you. Don’t forget to add BATKIS (Border, axis, title, key, intervals, source).
Read the abstract about the importance of human ecology (link on our weebly) and justify the last statement: “The most important goal of human ecology should […] be to slow population growth as far as possible.” (Zoological Institute 1999, p. 411)
Choose your own task based on your confidence on the topic!
Tip: Work at your own pace, this is not a race!