Target Student Performance
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Lesson 5 – Consequences of Our Lifestyles (students as explainers) |
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Activity |
Target Performance |
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Activity 5.1 Extreme Makeover: Lifestyle Edition (45 min) |
Students choose preferred lifestyles based on data about four countries (United States, France, China, Ethiopia) and compare CO2 emissions based on those lifestyles. |
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Activity 5.2 Carbon Emissions Jigsaw (60 min) |
Students explain the mechanisms through which human activities and technologies in four different areas (electricity, transportation, buildings, food) lead to CO2 emissions. |
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Activity 5.3 Energy Scenarios (30 min) |
Students explain how different personal activities (energy scenarios) lead to CO2 emissions. |
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Activity 5.4 Strategies for Lowering Carbon Emissions (45 min) |
Students create and share posters explaining strategies for reducing CO2 emissions. |
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 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
- 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.