Appendix
NGSS Standards
MS-ESS3-3. Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
To work on this standard, students will be examining humans impact on their environment through our indirect and direct use of fossil fuels. They will then assess various sorts of solutions through the use of renewable energies (depending on factors such as location) that could minimize human impact.
MS-ESS3–5. Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.
The students will examine various human activities primarily through their use of fossil fuels as well as natural processes such as volcanic eruptions that have led to a rise in global temperatures. Students will examine the Keeling Curve which graphs atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa. They will also look at temperature data and various other data and graphs to examine this phenomenon.
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