Rationale
The audience for this curriculum unit are 10th/11th/12th grade AP Environmental Science students but it can be modified for use with biology students and middle school level students. This unit plan will be taught during my unit on energy resources and consumption. Class scheduling consists of daily meetings of 55 minutes that meet the whole year. The typical class can range from 7 students to 36 students in which I prepare for the latter. I expect the lesson to be completed within a three-week timeframe. Some key concepts associated with this unit are: energy sources are readily available and abundant but they can cause air pollution and release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, energy sources may be a clean burning fuel, but they can have severe environmental impacts that negate the positives of being clean burning, and there are advantages and disadvantages of using nonrenewable and renewable resources but as a society, we must determine which is the lesser of two evils: cheap energy that is harmful or clean energy that is difficult and expensive to develop and mass produce.
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