Science - Lesson #1: Trade-offs

EOU Exam on Thursday, May 1st

Lesson #1: Environmental Trade-Offs

"Can we have our cake and eat it too?"

Learning Intention:

Students will be able to create a poster that discusses a specific solution to an environmental issue and trade-offs that must be made.

Success Criteria:

I am successful when I can...

1) Discuss my personal experience with climate change.

2) Relate trade-offs to my upcoming performance task

3) Research solutions to specific types of climate change and the tradeoffs engineers, scientist, politicians and citzens must make.

4) Design an argumentative PSA poster.

Agenda:

Part 1: CRSE Warm-Up

Part 2: Trade-Off Discussion

Part 3: Group Poster Design

Part 4: Mid-Point Check

Part 5: Reflection

Reminders:

Performance Task due June 1st.
Final exam June 7th.
Regents tutoring Monday and Tuesday 3-4 pm.

Standards:

NGSS HS-LS2-7: Design, evaluate, and refine a solution to a complex real-world problem, based on scientific knowledge, student-generated sources of evidence, prioritized criteria, and tradeoff considerations.
WHST.9-10.6: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
WHST.9-10.8: Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.

Part 1: CRSE Warm-Up

Directions: We all lived through Hurricane Sandy in 2012. (1) Describe what you remember about it, (2) how you were affected and (3) whether you believe that Hurricane Sandy was due to climate change.

(3 sentence minimum)

Part 2: What is a trade off?

Trade-Off: A trade-off is a kind of compromise that involves giving up something in return for getting something else.

Part 3: Turn and Talk

Cross Cutting Concepts

Directions: Discuss in your groups how the below quote relates to our discussion of environmental solutions.

There Is Always a Well-Known Solution to Every Human Problem—Neat, Plausible, and Wrong

H.L. Mencken

Part 4: PSA Presentation/Poster

Directions: In your groups, you will make a climate change presentation/poster for a specific instance of human impact on the environment. Each groups presentation/poster should contain the following for full credit:

1) Be creative, vibrant and aesthetically pleasing.

2) Discuss the trade-offs of each technology. Positives and negative impacts should be provided.

3) Citations for outside resources.

4) Provide at least a paragraph that tries to convince the reader that the technology is worth the trade-offs.

Solar Panels

(Click Picture)

HydroElectric Power

The Downside of Dams: Is the Environmental Price of Hydroelectric Power Too High?

Electric Cars

Sea Walls

The Best Defense Against Sea Level Rise Leaves Little Room for BirdsThe seawalls that fortify our coasts against rising seas also degrade bird habitat. But there are few good solutions unless people retreat inland.

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