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Enduring Understandings:

  • People utilize a variety of resources to meet the basic and specific needs of life.

  • The Earth has a limited number of non-renewable natural resources.

  • Some resources can be replenished or exist in such vast quantities they are in no danger of becoming depleted.

  • Often the energy stored in resources must be transformed into more useful forms and transported over great distances before it can be helpful to us.

 
Essential Question(s):

  • What is a “responsible” use of energy?

  • Are there alternative forms of energy that will serve our needs, or better ways of using traditional forms of energy?

  • What makes an energy resource renewable or nonrenewable?

  • What are the various forms of renewable and nonrenewable energy?

  • What are the various renewable and nonrenewable energy sources and resources?

  • At what rate are the various renewable energy resource renewed?

  • Which will be the primary energy resources in the future?

  • What is the environmental impact of utilizing different energy resources?

  • How does the distribution of natural resources affect energy choices?


Standards:
 

NGSS

  • MS-ESS3-1. Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth's mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes.

 

CCSS

ELA/Literacy -

  • RST.6-8.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts.

  • WHST.6-8.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.

  • WHST.6-8.9 Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

  • SL.8.5 Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points.

 

Mathematics -

  • 6.EE.B.6 Use variables to represent numbers and write expressions when solving a real-world or mathematical problem; understand that a variable can represent an unknown number, or, depending on the purpose at hand, any number in a specified set.

  • 7.EE.B.4 Use variables to represent quantities in a real-world or mathematical problem, and construct simple equations and inequalities to solve problems by reasoning about the quantities.

 

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