Energy, Natural Hazards, and the Environment · Earth & Space / Engineering

Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources

Evaluate the origins of different energy sources and their effects on the environment.

Key Questions

  1. 1What makes a resource 'renewable' versus 'nonrenewable'?
  2. 2How does our choice of energy source affect the air and water around us?
  3. 3Where does the energy in coal or wind actually come from?

Common Core State Standards

4-ESS3-1
Grade: 4th Grade
Subject: Science
Unit: Energy, Natural Hazards, and the Environment
Period: Earth & Space / Engineering

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