Energy Efficiency World

Describe several different types of energy forms…

Students plan, conduct, analyze data from, and communicate results of investigations, including simple experiments.

Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society.

Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth's resources and environment.

Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.

Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.

Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.

Plan and safely conduct investigations including simple experiments that involve a fair test.

Students describe the various cycles, physical and biological forces and processes, position in space, energy transformations, and human actions that affect the short-term and long-term changes to the Earth.

Recognize that the sun is the source of Earth's surface heat and light energy.

Explain how the output of one part of a system, including waste products from manufacturing or organisms, can become the input of another part of a system.

Represent the features of a real object, event, or process using models including geometric figures, number sequences, graphs, diagrams, sketches, maps, or three-dimensional figures and note ways in which those representations do (and do not) match features of the originals.

Give examples of systems including ecosystems, Earth systems, and technologies that appear to be unchanging (even though things may be changing within the system) and identify any feedback mechanisms that may be modifying the changes.

Students use models to represent objects, processes, and events from the physical setting, the living environment, and the technological world.

Recognize patterns of change including steady, repetitive, irregular, or apparently unpredictable change.

Students plan, conduct, analyze data from, and communicate results of investigations, including fair tests.

Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks.

Pose investigable questions and seek answers from reliable sources of scientific information and from their own investigations.