Human Energy Systems | Activity 1.1

Target Student Performance

Students show their initial proficiencies for the overall unit goals:

  • Questioning, investigating, and explaining how the Earth’s climate is changing
  • Explaining and predicting how carbon cycles and energy flows in Earth systems.

Resources You Provide

  • pencils (1 per student, for paper version)

Resources Provided

Setup

Print one copy of the 1.1 Human Energy Systems Unit Pretest for each student.

Directions

1. Describe the unit pretest.

Explain the purpose of the unit pretest to students:

  • It will help you as a teacher understand how students think about global-scale carbon and energy.
  • It will help them think about what they know and what questions they have.

Assessment

Use the 1.1 Human Energy Systems Unit Pretest to assess students' understanding of global carbon and energy cycling in terms of learning progression levels. You should not give your students grades on the pretest or expect your students to know the correct answers. The document 1.1 Assessing the Human Energy Systems Unit Pretest has assessment guidelines, and identifies correct responses and explaining how students’ responses reveal their learning progression levels.

Differentiation

If classroom in includes English Language Learners or have other special needs and considerations, you may want to read questions aloud and discuss meaning of questions.

Extending the Learning