High School Curriculum Explorer · Grades 9–12

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Earth and Environmental Science

Suggested grades 9–12 · Unit 2: Carbon and Resource Decisions

Keep Stocks Separate From Carbon Flows

Account for annual carbon transfers across interacting reservoirs.

▷ 2 teacher video choices: Keep Stocks Separate From Carbon Flows
Preview lesson: Keep Stocks Separate From Carbon Flows

Goal: 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.

Subject-content contributionHS-ESS2-6High school band
Supporting literacy connectionRST.9-10.7Grades 9–10
Selected NGSS high school-band contribution; full performance requires additional evidence and instruction.
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Earth and Environmental Science

Suggested grades 9–12 · Unit 2: Carbon and Resource Decisions

Compare Resource Strategies Transparently

Evaluate competing metal-use options using economic, environmental and social criteria.

▷ 2 teacher video choices: Compare Resource Strategies Transparently
Preview lesson: Compare Resource Strategies Transparently

Goal: 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.

Subject-content contributionHS-ESS3-2High school band
Supporting literacy connectionRST.9-10.1Grades 9–10
Selected NGSS high school-band contribution; full performance requires additional evidence and instruction.
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