Stability and Change
Analyze geoscience data and the results from global climate models to make an evidence-based forecast of the current rate of global or regional climate change and associated future impacts to Earth systems.
Performance Expectation
Grade: High School (9-12)
Evaluate or refine a technological solution that reduces impacts of human activities on natural systems.*
Performance Expectation
Grade: High School (9-12)
Create a computational simulation to illustrate the relationships among management of natural resources, the sustainability of human populations, and biodiversity.
Performance Expectation
Grade: High School (9-12)
Construct an argument based on evidence about the simultaneous coevolution of Earth’s systems and life on Earth.
Performance Expectation
Grade: High School (9-12)
Analyze geoscience data to make the claim that one change to Earth's surface can create feedbacks that cause changes to other Earth systems.
Performance Expectation
Grade: High School (9-12)
Develop a model to illustrate how Earth’s internal and surface processes operate at different spatial and temporal scales to form continental and ocean-floor features.
Performance Expectation
Grade: High School (9-12)
Apply scientific reasoning and evidence from ancient Earth materials, meteorites, and other planetary surfaces to construct an account of Earth’s formation and early history.
Performance Expectation
Grade: High School (9-12)
Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.*
Performance Expectation
Grade: High School (9-12)
Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.
Performance Expectation
Grade: High School (9-12)
Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that feedback mechanisms maintain homeostasis.
Performance Expectation
Grade: High School (9-12)