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Emerging Technologies
Duration: Three 60-minute sessions
Grade Levels: 7-12
Examine environmental issues through the lens of four emerging technologies. Working in teams, students consider the challenges these technologies might face if they were adopted in their own communities.
Grade Levels: 7-12
Duration: Three 60-minute sessions
Concepts/Skills: Sustainability, problem-solving, systems design, presentation skills
Objectives:
- Evaluate four emerging technologies and the impact they could have on their community and the broader environmental crisis.
- Identify problems facing one of the technologies based on background information and research.
- Work in groups to develop a solution to these challenges.
- Present their solution to their peers with a short pitch.
Climate Standards Connections
| Next Generation Science Standards | ||
| Grade | Performance Expectation | Description |
| 6-8 | MS-ESS3-3 | Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment. |
| Climate Change Connections | human impact | |
| Clarification Statement & Assessment Boundary | Examples of the design process include examining human environmental impacts, assessing the kinds of solutions that are feasible, and designing and evaluating solutions that could reduce that impact. Examples of human impacts can include water usage (such as the withdrawal of water from streams and aquifers or the construction of dams and levees), land usage (such as urban development, agriculture, or the removal of wetlands), and pollution (such as of the air, water, or land). | |