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High School Curriculum Explorer · Grades 9–12
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Earth and Environmental Science
Suggested grades 9–12 · Unit 1: Earth Evidence and Energy
Evaluate an idealized age transect as evidence for a plate-motion explanation.
▷ 2 teacher video choices: Read a Seafloor Age PatternGoal: Plot ages against distance and defend a qualified spreading interpretation with two data comparisons.
Before this: Use signed coordinates and unit conversions.
Try together: Together predict the model age at +300 km if the same average rate continued, then label it a prediction rather than a supplied measurement.
Earth and Environmental Science
Suggested grades 9–12 · Unit 1: Earth Evidence and Energy
Connect reflection, outgoing radiation and an initial energy imbalance without treating the model as a weather forecast.
▷ 2 teacher video choices: Model a Changing Energy BudgetGoal: Construct two energy budgets and explain the direction of the initial change under stated assumptions.
Before this: Add and subtract energy quantities.
Try together: Together analyze an initial outgoing-radiation decrease from 70 to 68 while reflection remains 30.
Earth and Environmental Science
Suggested grades 9–12 · Unit 2: Carbon and Resource Decisions
Account for annual carbon transfers across interacting reservoirs.
▷ 2 teacher video choices: Keep Stocks Separate From Carbon FlowsGoal: Calculate net reservoir changes and explain how a transfer can conserve carbon while increasing atmospheric stock.
Before this: Distinguish a total amount from an amount per year.
Try together: Together calculate the atmospheric change if the fossil transfer were 3 instead of 8, with all other modeled flows unchanged.
Earth and Environmental Science
Suggested grades 9–12 · Unit 2: Carbon and Resource Decisions
Evaluate competing metal-use options using economic, environmental and social criteria.
▷ 2 teacher video choices: Compare Resource Strategies TransparentlyGoal: Recommend a feasible strategy with two numerical comparisons and an explicit tradeoff.
Before this: Compare costs, percentages and constraints.
Try together: Together explain why 100 refurbished frames would exceed the supplied inspection capacity even though the purchase price is lower.
Earth and Environmental Science
Suggested grades 9–12 · Unit 3: Environmental Solutions and Projections
Compare mitigation data and improve a design while guarding against single-measure claims.
▷ 2 teacher video choices: Refine an Impact-Reduction ProposalGoal: Evaluate a habitat proposal against three criteria and propose a testable refinement.
Before this: Interpret averages and distinguish before/after evidence from a causal conclusion.
Try together: Together label every predicted quantity in a comparison table and explain why it should not be presented as a measured success.
Earth and Environmental Science
Suggested grades 9–12 · Unit 3: Environmental Solutions and Projections
Interpret model outputs and associated impacts without turning a scenario into an exact prediction.
▷ 2 teacher video choices: Read a Projection as a Conditional ModelGoal: Compare two scenario rates and write a qualified explanation with one associated impact and two uncertainties.
Before this: Calculate a finite change per decade and read a graph.
Try together: Together explain why the shared 0.5°C starting anomaly is not a statement that either place’s absolute temperature is 0.5°C.
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