Appendix A
Next Generation Science Standard
The performance expectations in Middle School -.Human Impacts help students formulate answers to the questions: “How do human activities affect Earth systems?” Two sub-ideas from the NRC Framework are addressed in these performance expectations: ESS3.B and ESS3.C. Students understand the ways that human activities impacts Earth’s other systems. Students can use many different practices to understand the significant and complex issues surrounding human uses of land, energy, mineral, and water resources and the resulting impacts of their development. The crosscutting concepts of patterns; cause and effect; and interdependence of science, engineering, and technology are called out as organizing concepts for these disciplinary core ideas.
7-8 Dine Cultural Standards are included to support the cultural aspects of learning the focused area of environmental science in this unit. The standards are Concept 1 Standard – (K’e doo nitsahakees doo nahat a naasgoo iina bee siih hasingo adoolniil) – I will develop an understanding of Dine way of life. Concept 2 Standard – (Nahasdzaan doo Yadilhil baa hane doo bina nitin choosh ii dooleel) – I will practice my cultural teachings of earth and sky.
Concept 4 Standard – (Iina bina’niltin bits’aadoo ya’at’eehgo she ‘ina’ adeeshliil) –
I will live by the fundamental standards of living in harmony
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