Renewable energy sources

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Science (2005)

Grade 6

• Goal 1: The learner will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry.
  • Objective 1.01: Identify and create questions and hypotheses that can be answered through scientific investigations.
  • Objective 1.02: Develop appropriate experimental procedures for:
    • Given questions.
    • Student generated questions.
  • Objective 1.04: Analyze variables in scientific investigations:
    • Identify dependent and independent.
    • Use of a control.
    • Manipulate.
    • Describe relationships between.
    • Define operationally.
  • Objective 1.05: Analyze evidence to:
    • Explain observations.
    • Make inferences and predictions.
    • Develop the relationship between evidence and explanation.
  • Objective 1.07: Prepare models and/or computer simulations to:
    • Test hypotheses.
    • Evaluate how data fit.
  • Objective 1.08: Use oral and written language to:
    • Communicate findings.
    • Defend conclusions of scientific investigations.
  • Objective 1.09: Use technologies and information systems to:
    • Research.
    • Gather and analyze data
    • Visualize data.
    • Disseminate findings to others.
  • Objective 1.10: Analyze and evaluate information from a scientifically literate viewpoint by reading, hearing, and/or viewing:
    • Scientific text.
    • Articles.
    • Events in the popular press.
• Goal 6: The learner will conduct investigations and examine models and devices to build an understanding of the characteristics of energy transfer and/or transformation.
  • Objective 6.04: Evaluate data for qualitative and quantitative relationships associated with energy transfer and/or transformation.
  • Objective 6.05: Analyze the physical interactions of light and matter:
    • Absorption.
    • Scattering.
    • Color perception.
    • Form and function of the human eye.
  • Objective 6.07: Analyze the Law of Conservation of Energy:
    • Conclude that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but only changed from one form into another.
    • Conclude that the amount of energy stays the same, although within the process some energy is always converted to heat.
    • Some systems transform energy with less loss of heat than others.

Grades 9–12 — Advanced Placement Earth and Environmental Science

• Goal 4: The learner will build an understanding of the distribution, ownership, use and degradation of renewable and nonrenewable resources.
  • Objective 4.05: Analyze and compare conventional and alternative energy sources.
    • Coal.
    • Natural gas.
    • Oil.
    • Nuclear power.
    • Solar energy.
    • Biomass.
    • Energy from the Earth's forces: Wind, Water, Geothermal, Tidal.
    • Energy conservation.
    • Identify facility parts (Coal, Nuclear).
    • Monthly/annual costs.

Grades 9–12 — Advanced Placement Physics B

• Goal 2: The learner will build an understanding of Newtonian mechanics.
  • Objective 2.03: Examine and calculate work, energy and power.
    • Work and work-energy theorem.
    • Conservative forces and potential energy.
    • Conservation of energy.
    • Power.

Grades 9–12 — Physical Science

• Goal 3: The learner will analyze energy and its conservation.
  • Objective 3.01: Investigate and analyze storage of energy:
    • Kinetic energy.
    • Potential energies: gravitational, chemical, electrical, elastic, nuclear.
    • Thermal energy.