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Objective: How do changes in Earth’s system impact our communities and what can we do about it?

Standards:

• MS-ESS3-1: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes.

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

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

• MS-ESS3-4: Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.

• MS-ETS1-2: Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Warm-Up: 

Daily Reading

To Do List:

Video A Town Without Water

Transcript- Porterville: A Town Without Water

Video- Floods Hit Towns in US

Transcript- Floods Hit Towns in US

Presentation Drought & Flood

Question-Drought & Flood

Check for Understanding:

Norm Focused Reflection 

Homework:

End of Unit 7.6 Exam Friday May 8

Quizlet Vocabulary

Matching Vocabulary

Gimkit Vocabulary

Gimkit Questions