Science

Unit 2 Resources in Earth Systems

Students investigate the uses of natural resources and explore the difference between nonrenewable and renewable resources. Students develop an understanding of how mismanagement of a renewable resource today can make if difficult for the resource to be renewed at the same rate in the future. Students construct a scientific explanation about how the natural word operates and use cause and effect relationships to predict phenomena.  They explore why the distribution of renewable and nonrenewable resources is uneven.

Lesson 1 Natural Resources

Lesson 2 Earth's History