Target Student Performance
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Activity |
Target Performance |
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Lesson 3 – Explaining Connections between Patterns (students as explainers) |
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Activity 3.1: Millions of Flasks of Air (25 min) |
Students explain why Charles David Keeling went to Hawaii to collect data on atmospheric CO2 concentrations and how he made his measurements. |
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Activity 3.2: The Greenhouse Effect (20 min) |
Students use a computer simulation to explain how carbon dioxide absorbs visible light and emits infrared radiation—the Greenhouse Effect. |
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Activity 3.3: Explaining Relationships Between Earth Systems (40 min) |
Students use the Greenhouse Effect to explain how atmospheric CO2 concentration is the driver that causes changes in other Earth systems. |
NGSS Performance Expectations
High School
- Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics. HS-LS2-5. Develop a model to illustrate the role of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in the cycling of carbon among the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere.
- Earth’s Systems. HS-ESS2-2. Analyze geoscience data to make the claim that a change to Earth’s surface can create feedbacks that cause changes to other Earth systems.
- Weather and Climate. HS-ESS2-4. Use a model to describe how variations in the flow of energy into and out of Earth’s systems result in changes in climate.
- Earth and Human Activity. HS-ESS3-5. Analyze geoscience data and the results from global climate models to make an evidence-based forecast of the current rate of global or regional climate change and associated future impacts to Earth systems.
- Earth and Human Activity. HS-ESS3-6. Use a computational representation to illustrate the relationships among Earth systems and how those relationships are being modified due to human activity.
Middle School
- Waves and Electronic Radiation. MS-PS4-2. Develop and use a model to describe that waves are reflected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials.
- Earth’s Systems. MS-ESS2-1. Develop a model to describe the cycling of the Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.
- Human Impacts. MS-ESS3-4. Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capital consumption of natural resources impact Earth's systems.
- Earth and Human Activity. MS-ESS3-5. Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.