Appendix on Implementing District Standards
NGSS Standard Integration
The unit will incorporate standards from the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in Unit III. The focus will be primarily on the nature of energy and the associated thermodynamic principles however the LCA with serve as the method for assessment of a real-world energy efficiency scenario.
Disciplinary Core Ideas
Energy is a quantitative property of a system that depends on the motion and interactions of matter and radiation within that system. (HS-PS3-1)
Conservation of energy means that the total change of energy in any system is always equal to the total energy transferred into or out of the system. (HS-PS3-1) (HS-PS3-2)
When two objects interacting through a field relative position, the energy stored in the field is changed. (HS-PS3-5)
Crosscutting Concepts
When investigating or describing a system, the boundaries and initial conditions of the system need to be defined, their inputs and outputs analyzed and described using models. (HS-PS3-4)
Science & Engineering Practices
Use mathematical representation of phenomena to describe explanations. (HS-PS2-2)
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