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Evaluate and communicate the climate changes that can occur when certain components of the climate system are altered. [Clarification Statement: For
example, evaluate variations in incoming solar radiation as well as its reflection, absorption, storage, and redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and land systems.]
c. Analyze geologic evidence that past climate changes have occurred over
a wide range of time scales. [Clarification Statement: Examples of evidence are ice core data,
the fossil record, sea level fluctuations, glacial features.]
HS.ESS- Human Stability Students who demonstrate understanding can: a. Construct arguments for how the developments of human societies have been influenced by natural resource availability including: locations of streams, deltas, and high concentrations of minerals, ores, coal, and hydrocarbons. b. Reflect on and revise design solutions for local resource development that would increase the ratio of benefits to costs and risks to the community and its environment. [Clarification Statement: Examples of local resource
development include soil use for agriculture, water use, mining for coal and minerals, pumping for oil and natural gas.]
mineral, and fossil fuel resources due to increases in population and rates of consumption have sometimes led to the development of new technologies to retrieve resources previously thought to be economically or technologically unattainable. d. Construct scientific arguments from evidence to support claims that natural hazards and other geologic events have influenced the course of human history. [Clarification Statement: Famines that result from reduced global temperatures can
follow large historic volcanic eruptions. Large earthquakes and tsunamis can destroy cities, and there is a strong correlation between historic climate changes and the number of wars.]
Explain how human societies have grown near natural resources Predict how human societies will change with scarcities in natural resources Analyze the process of mining for resources Discuss the process of land and local resource development using local examples Create a presentation displaying a new technology Show that many new technologies come from human need for natural resources
Learning Targets Understand how natural hazards have impacted human history Predict the impact of a natural hazards/geologic event on humans today Identify how human activities impact natural hazards Analyze how sustainable vs nonsustainable farming impacts human stability Compare the environmental costs of producing different types of food Explain the benefits and environmental impacts of pesticide use
could be designed and implemented to mitigate local or global environmental impacts. [Clarification Statement: Environmental impacts to include acid rain, water
pollution, the ozone hole, etc.]
HS.ESS-Climate Change
e. Construct scientific claims about the impacts of human activities on the
frequency and intensity of some natural hazards. [Clarification Statement: Natural
hazards to include floods, droughts, forest fires, landslides, etc.]
Learning Targets Explain how economics and environmental science are related Give an example of a private effort to address environmental problems
Learning Targets Explain how human activities have changed the atmosphere Explain how human activities have changed the hydrosphere Explain how human activities have changed the geosphere Explain how human activities have changed the biosphere Recognize that many new technologies come from
human need for natural resources Recognize how natural hazards have impacted human history
Learning Targets Identify how solar radiation is reflected and absorbed in the poles Evaluate how human activities affect solar radiation Examine how solar radiation is stored in Earths systems Examine how solar system processes have affected the Earth in the past Understand how human activities have affected and affect global and regional climates Examine how earth process have affected the global and regional climates
Learning Targets Determine how human activities have affected and affect global and regional climates
Predict future global climate systems Develop a plan for humans to modify their impacts on global climate systems Examine the absorption spectra of different Earth materials Examine the greenhouse effect