Energy: The U.S. in crisis?
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A lesson plan for Grades 9–12 Earth/Environmental Science
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- Appropriate grades
- 9–12
- Subjects
- science (environmental science)
- Provider
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
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This is a single lesson in which students will study and assess the California energy situation. They will evaluate economic, political, and social impacts that have led California to its near critical energy situation. This lesson focuses on how decisions are made on many levels and how those decisions involve trade-offs of economic costs and social values.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grades 9–12 — Earth/Environmental Science
- Goal 1: The learner will develop abilities necessary to do and understand scientific inquiry in the earth and environmental sciences.
- Objective 1.06: Identify and evaluate a range of possible solutions to earth and environmental issues at the local, national, and global level including considerations of:
- Interdependent human and natural systems.
- Diverse perspectives.
- Short and long range impacts.
- Economic development, environmental quality and sustainability.
- Opportunities for and consequences of personal decisions.
- Risks and benefits of technological advances.
- Objective 1.06: Identify and evaluate a range of possible solutions to earth and environmental issues at the local, national, and global level including considerations of:
- Goal 2: The learner will build an understanding of lithospheric materials, tectonic processes, and the human and environmental impacts of natural and human-induced changes in the lithosphere.
- Objective 2.06: Investigate and analyze the importance and impact of the economic development of earth's finite rock, mineral, soil, fossil fuel and other natural resources to society and our daily lives:
- Availability.
- Geographic distribution.
- Conservation/Stewardship.
- Recycling.
- Environmental impact.
- Challenge of rehabilitation of disturbed lands.
- Objective 2.07: Analyze the sources and impacts of society's use of energy.
- Renewable and non-renewable sources.
- The impact of human choices on Earth and its systems.
- Objective 2.06: Investigate and analyze the importance and impact of the economic development of earth's finite rock, mineral, soil, fossil fuel and other natural resources to society and our daily lives:
