Human Impact and Engineering · Engineering & Design
Natural Resource Management
Comparing renewable and non-renewable resources and the environmental costs of their extraction.
Key Questions
- 1Why are some resources considered non-renewable while others are not?
- 2How does the extraction of minerals impact the local groundwater?
- 3What are the trade-offs between different types of energy production?
Common Core State Standards
MS-ESS3-1MS-ESS3-4
Grade: 6th Grade
Subject: Science
Unit: Human Impact and Engineering
Period: Engineering & Design
Suggested Methodologies
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