• Essential Questions

    To better understand Natural Resources

  • Why do some natural resources exist in one place and not in another? (i.e. Why is there copper in Chile but not oil?)

Priority Standards & Supporting Standards

ESS2-1: Earth's Energy Cycle

ESS3-1: Uneven Distribution of Resources

PS1-3: Synthetic Materials

Priority SEPs and Supporting SEPs

  • Develop a model (MOD)

  • Construct an evidence-based explanation (EVI)

  • Gather and make sense of information (INV)

Priority CCCs and Supporting CCCs

  • Stability and change

  • Cause and effect

  • Structure and function