Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information
Crosscutting Concepts
Systems and System Models
Knowledge
Students know:
- Human activities in agriculture, industry, and everyday life can have major effects, both positive and negative, on the land, vegetation, streams, ocean, air, and even outer space.
- Individuals and communities are doing things to help protect Earth's resources and environments.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Obtain and combine information from books and/or other reliable media to explain how individuals and communities can protect Earth's natural resources and its environment.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Individual communities interact with components of environmental systems and can have both positive and negative effects.
Vocabulary
- Natural Resource
- Scientific idea
- Individual
- Community
- Terracing
- Erosion
- Soil
- No-till farming
- Fertility
- Emissions
- Pollution
- Recycling
- Landfill
