The following are from the TUSD Science Curriculum Map for Sustainability. Please note: While in sustainability we will cover many, if not all, the topics listed below, it will not be in that order.
What is the nature of Science?
What criteria do we use to determine if something is scientific?
Why is a mindset of inquiry and curiosity essential to gaining scientific knowledge?
Why is technology important for scientific investigations and discovery? What are some of the major technological advances that have increased our scientific understanding of the world?
How is engineering different from science and what is the process and mindset needed?
How will I use math to solve problems through the engineering process?
What is sustainable development and why is the concept of sustainability important?
What are the essential needs for human life and needs beyond those for physical survival?
What are renewable resources?
How much water on earth is usable by humans to meet survival needs?
How many people do not have access to clean water?
How much water do I use? What can I do to conserve water?
What is our personal impact on our planet and what are options to lessen impact?
What is global climate change and what role do humans play?
What technologies have been developed resulting in less human consumption of fossil fuels?
Can individual action alone have a positive impact on reducing global climate change?
What personal actions affect the community, environment, the globe?
Are there ways to use technology to obtain or create more water in places where water is needed most?
If enough food is produced to feed everyone, why is there hunger?
Is current food production sustainable?
How do objects interact with one another?
What is energy and how does it change its form?
How is energy stored in objects? How can energy be transferred at different rates?
Is there an impartial scientific way to analyze the costs, benefits, and risks of various ways of dealing with the following needs or problems: various forms of alternative energy, storage of nuclear waste, abandoned mines, greenhouse gases, hazardous wastes?
What are different ways to describe motion?
What is the difference between speed and velocity?
What changes when an object accelerates?
What is momentum?