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MS-ESS3-3

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MS-ESS3-3 Earth and Human Activity

Students who demonstrate understanding can: Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing human impact on the environment.*
Clarification Statement: Examples of the design process include examining human environmental impacts, assessing the kinds of solutions that are feasible, and designing and evaluating solutions that could reduce that impact. Examples of human impacts can include water usage (such as the withdrawal of water from streams and aquifers or the construction of dams and levees), land usage (such as urban development, agriculture, or the removal of wetlands), and pollution (such as of the air, water, or land).
Assessment Boundary: N/A

Crosscutting Concepts

Science & Engineering Practices 

Disciplinary Core Ideas 

Cause and Effect:

  • Relationships can be classified as causal or correlational, and correlation does not necessarily imply causation.

Constructing Explanations (for science) and Designing Solutions (for engineering):

  • Constructing explanations and designing solutions in 6–8 builds on K–5 experiences and progresses to include constructing explanations and designing solutions supported by multiple sources of evidence consistent with scientific ideas, principles, and theories.
  • Apply scientific principles to design an object, tool, process or system. 

Human Impacts on Earth Systems:

  • Human activities have significantly altered the biosphere, sometimes damaging or destroying natural habitats and causing the extinction of other species. But changes to Earth’s environments can have different impacts (negative and positive) for different living things.
  • Typically as human populations and per-capita consumption of natural resources increase, so do the negative impacts on Earth unless the activities and technologies involved are engineered otherwise.

Influence of Engineering, Technology, and Science on Society and the Natural World:

  • The use of technologies and any limitations on their use are driven by individual or societal needs, desires, and differences in such factors as climate, natural resources, and economic conditions. Thus technology use varies from region to region and over time. 

 


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