2020 EN-ESS3-3

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The Oklahoma Academic Standards for Science (OAS-S) are three-dimensional performance expectations representing the things students should know, understand, and be able to do to be proficient in science and engineering. Performance expectations are considered standards and include a science and engineering practice (indicated in blue and represent everyday skills of scientists and engineers), disciplinary core ideas (represented in orange and represent science ideas used by scientists and engineers), and a crosscutting concept (indicated in green and represent ways of thinking like scientists and engineers).

Each dimension in the OAS-S grows in complexity and sophistication across the grades. To learn more about the prior knowledge and skills students have developed (or future knowledge/skills) associated with that specific dimension, each section in the standard below is hyperlinked to that specific vertical learning progression page.

Environmental Science (EN) Earth and Human Activities
EN.ESS3.3 Use computational simulations to illustrate changes between the relationships of natural resources, human populations, and biodiversity and their sustainability within Earth’s systems.
Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on the importance of responsible stewardship of Earth’s resources. Examples of factors that affect the management of natural resources include costs of resource extraction and waste management, per-capita consumption, and the development of new technologies. Examples of factors that affect human sustainability include agricultural efficiency, levels of consumption, and urban planning.
Assessment Boundary: N/A
Science and Engineering Practices	Disciplinary Core Ideas	Crosscutting Concepts
Using Mathematical and Computational Thinking Create a computational model or simulation of a phenomenon, design device, process, or system.	Human Impacts on Earth Systems The sustainability of human societies and biodiversity that supports them requires responsible management of natural resources.	Stability and Change Change and rates of change can be quantified and modeled over very short or very long periods of time. Some systems’ changes are irreversible.
Connections to other Performance Expectations in Environmental Science
Natural Hazards and Sustainability of Natural Resources