Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information
Crosscutting Concepts
Cause and Effect
Knowledge
Students know:
- How energy is derived from natural resources.
- How energy resources derived from natural resources address human energy needs.
- Positive and negative environmental effects of using each energy resource.
- The role of technology in improving or mediating the environmental effects of using a given resource.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Waves, which are the regular patterns of motion, can be made in water by disturbing the surface.
- When waves move across the surface of deep water, the water goes up and down in place; there is no net motion in the direction of the wave except when the water meets a beach.
- Waves of the same type can differ in amplitude (height of the wave) and wavelength (spacing between wave peaks).
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Energy and fuels that humans use are derived from natural sources, and their use affects the environment in numerous ways.
- Resources are renewable over time, while others are not.
Vocabulary
- natural resources
- natural renewable resources
- nonrenewable resources
- fossil fuels
- air pollution
- pollution
- solar energy
- environment
- effects
- affects
- habitat
- solar panel
- impact
- solution
- derived
- harness
