NGSS

• MS-ESS3-3. Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.

• MS-ESS3-4. Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and percapita consumption of natural resources impact Earth's systems.

 

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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