Target Student Performance
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Activity 6.1 Using Models to Predict Future Conditions (50 min) |
Students use the online Very, Very Simple Climate Model to make predictions about future atmospheric CO2 concentrations and global temperatures based on CO2 emissions scenarios. |
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Activity 6.2 How Our Decisions Affect Earth’s Future (30 min) |
Students use graphs of projections from computer models to consider the impacts of increasing atmospheric CO2 on Earth’s systems and on living things. |
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Activity 6.3: Human Energy Systems Unit Posttest (20 min) |
Students show their initial proficiencies for the overall unit goals: 1. Questioning, investigating, and explaining how the Earth’s climate is changing 2. Explaining and predicting how carbon cycles and energy flows in 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 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.
- Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics. HS-LS2-7. Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.
- Earth’s Systems. HS-ESS2-2. Analyze geoscience data to make the claim that one 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.
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-ESS3-3. Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
- 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.