Disciplinary Core Ideas: 9

Earth and Space Sciences:

MS-ESS3.C1: 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.C2: Typically as human populations and per-capita consumption of natural resources increase, so do the negative impacts on Earth unless the activities and technologies involved are engineered otherwise.

MS-ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems

MS-ESS3: Earth and Human Activity

MS-LS2.C2: Biodiversity describes the variety of species found in Earth’s terrestrial and oceanic ecosystems. The completeness or integrity of an ecosystem’s biodiversity is often used as a measure of its health

MS-LS2.C: Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience

MS-LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

Middle School:

Disciplinary Core Ideas: 15

Earth and Space Sciences:

Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science:

HS-ESS2 : Earth's Systems

HS-ESS2.D3: Changes in the atmosphere due to human activity have increased carbon dioxide concentrations and thus affect climate.

HS-ESS2.D: Weather and Climate

HS-ESS3 : Earth and Human Activity

HS-ESS3.C1: The sustainability of human societies and the biodiversity that supports them requires responsible management of natural resources.

HS-ESS3.C2: Scientists and engineers can make major contributions by developing technologies that produce less pollution and waste and that preclude ecosystem degradation.

HS-ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems

HS-ETS1.A : Defining and Delimiting Engineering Problems

HS-ETS1.A2: Humanity faces major global challenges today, such as the need for supplies of clean water and food or for energy sources that minimize pollution, which can be addressed through engineering. These global challenges also may have manifestations in local communities

HS-LS4.D1: Humans depend on the living world for the resources and other benefits provided by biodiversity. But human activity is also having adverse impacts on biodiversity through overpopulation, overexploitation, habitat destruction, pollution, introduction of invasive species, and climate change. Thus sustaining biodiversity so that ecosystem functioning and productivity are maintained is essential to supporting and enhancing life on Earth. Sustaining biodiversity also aids humanity by preserving landscapes of recreational or inspirational value.

HS-LS4.D: Biodiversity and Humans

HS-LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity

High School: