Categorias: Todos - impact - resources - consumption - climate

por Marcus Giron 12 anos atrás

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Solar On Schools

The curriculum for eighth and ninth graders focuses on understanding energy and resource dependency. It aims to teach students about the diverse ways humans rely on natural resources and how their extraction and use impact the environment.

Solar On Schools

Solar On Schools

Energy Foundation

Energy Statement
Energy - Historical Perspective
Energy Bingo

Ninth Grade

Identify mechanisms in the past and present that have changed Earth's Climate.
Evaluate costs and benefits of exploration, extraction and consumption of resources.
Describe how humans are dependent on resources.
The Chemical and Physical properties of some resources: i.e. fossil fuels; natural gas.
Costs, benefits and limits of energy sources (fossil fuels, alternate energy).
Humans consume various resources throughout their lives.
Impact of human actions on Earth's climate.
How do we evaluate costs and benefits of extracting and using resources?
Potential use of a resource is determined by its chemical and physical properties.
Humans are dependent on the diversity of resources. There are costs, benefits and consequences of renewable and nonrenewable resources.
What if we ran out of resources?

Eighth Grade

Students will be able to...
Use technology to gather and analyze data.
Critically analyze evidence of human impact on the environment associated energy use.
Students will know...
Humans depend on natural resources.
Examples of human impact on the environment associated with energy use.
Forms of energy (e.g. EM, sound, potential, kinetic)
Essential Questions
Do humans have a unique responsibility to the Earth?
How does the energy I use in my home affect the environment?
If energy could not be transformed or transferred, how would your life change?
Students will understand that...
Different ways of obtaining, transforming and distributing energy have different environmental impacts.
There are different forms of energy, and those forms of energy can be transformed and transferred.
Overarching Essential Questions
Why do we depend on resources?
What is energy?
Overarching Understandings
Humans are dependent on the diversity of resources provided by the Earth and Sun.
Matter and energy exist in various forms; transformation and conservation of matter and energy occur in processes that are predictable and measureable.