Influence of Engineering, Technology, and Science on Society and the Natural World

Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.

Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth's systems.

Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.*

Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects.

Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth's mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes.

Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.*

Apply Newton’s Third Law to design a solution to a problem involving the motion of two colliding objects.*

Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society.

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.