Next Generation Science Standards

Students who demonstrate understanding can: 

MS-ESS3 Earth and Human Activity 

MS-ESS3-3 Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment .

ESS3.C: 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. (MS-ESS3-3) 

MS-ESS3-5 Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century. 

ESS3.D: Global Climate Change § Human activities, such as the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, are major factors in the current rise in Earth’s mean surface temperature (global warming). Reducing the level of climate change and reducing human vulnerability to whatever climate changes do occur depend on the understanding of climate science, engineering capabilities, and other kinds of knowledge, such as understanding of human behavior and on applying that knowledge wisely in decisions and activities. (MS-ESS3–5)