Friday sustainabliity sev3cLesson

Take a look:

•What you like to visit this park?

•This is what happens when a place or
resource is available to everyone with
no accountability.

•Often times, the place or resource
gets degraded.

Move forward this
week
•Tuesday and Wednesday:
Fantastic Four risks and
benefits for renewable energy

•Tuesday’s WIN: Class Craft
Quest Lava and Light.

•Wednesday: Newsela

•”Exam coming up next week”

•Friday: “I got this” Challenge

We need to move on

time with the activity
today.

At the end of the

lesson we will go in
breakout rooms for
make-up last week

If you are done you can

work on the DIY
Quizizz

Standard

SEV3. Obtain, evaluate, and
communicate information to evaluate
types, availability, allocation, and
sustainability of energy resources.

c. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate
data to predict the sustainability
potential of renewable and non-
renewable energy resources.

September 28, 2021

Learning Targets

1. I can differentiate between

sustainable vs non-
sustainable.

2. I can list behaviors and

practices that are
unsustainable and propose
alternatives.

Activating
Strategy
Writing Activity

https://docs.google.com/docum
ent/d/19XFR13pQOt_g9glyO_gV
OWKdAEMwb9PZJqEbuEcueng/
copy

Sustainability

What is it?
• Let’s Watch:

• https://nearpod.com

/t/science/8th/sustai
nability-L52332455

Mini- Lesson

Imagine that you are enjoying a bowl of popcorn.

What happens once the popcorn is gone?
How could you make this one bowl last longer?

Making this one bowl last longer would be seeking sustainability for this popcorn serving.

Mini- Lesson

Well, we could pop more popcorn, right?

If only consuming non-renewable energy sources were as simple as ‘making more’ then we
wouldn’t be as concerned about the ‘finite’ or ‘limited’ amounts.

Mini- Lesson

Unlike popcorn, non-renewable energy resources can take hundreds to millions to billions of
years to create. Simply stated, they are not recovered within a human lifespan.

Mini- Lesson

Recall
Nonrenewable Energy Resources:

Mini- Lesson

Can you identify

each?

•The four main sources of
nonrenewable energy are
depicted below. These are
resources that we use for
electricity but which are
limited due to the amount of
these available resources on
the planet. They are often
called 'fossil fuels' because
they are the product of fossils
and organic matter being
trapped and compressed
beneath the earth for millions
of years. The exception to this
is nuclear energy, which uses
the metal uranium.

How is coal made?

Recall
Nonrenewable Energy Resources:

How are oil and natural gas made?

Recall
Nonrenewable Energy Resources:

How is Nuclear Energy made?

Nuclear fission uses

uranium to create energy.

Nuclear energy is a

‘nonrenewable’ resource
because once the uranium

is used, it is gone!

Recall
Nonrenewable Energy Resources:

Check for Understanding

Sustainable Practice or Unsustainable Practice?

Uranium Mining

Natural Gas Well

Oil Wells

Sustainable Energy

What is it?

• Sustainable energy is derived from resources that can maintain current

operations without jeopardizing the energy needs or climate of future
generations.

• The most popular natural sources of sustainable energy, including wind, solar

and hydropower, are also renewable.

Mini- Lesson

Claim

We are getting better in the United States with our environmentally
sustainable practices. We have reduced waste, we have reduced
depletion, we have reduced degradation of our natural resources.

Agree or Disagree

State your position

Share a picture to support your position

World Views

Mini- Lesson

Examine the statementThe image below demonstrates the various forms of
energy used to produce electricity. It projects about 80 years into the future,
demonstrating the best path forward for human energy consumption. Some
of these resources are renewable and some are nonrenewable. Keep in mind
that utilizing nonrenewable resources being phased out in this projection and
conservation is the best practice for sustainability. (CCS = carbon capture and
storage (prevents harmful carbon from entering the atmosphere))

World Views
Mini- Lesson

Is this evidence of sustainable
behavior or unsustainable
behavior?

Examine the graph

What does this
information tell you
about our energy usage?

What about our energy
resource practices?

World Views
Mini- Lesson

Is this evidence of sustainable
behavior or unsustainable
behavior?

What is the reasoning?

Using fossil fuels for energy resources?
Let’s find out

Believe it or not

China uses more renewable energy then USA.

Agree

Disagree

China uses mostly nonrenewable energy

Does this risks outweigh the benefits

Research what effects does China’s use of coal factories do?

Why is coal still being used?

IS China or are other places using nonrenewable energy?

Energy Efficiency is a
measure of energy

produced compared to

energy consumed.
Thermal conversion
machines can turn no

more than 40% of

energy in primary fuel

into electricity or

mechanical power due

to waste heat.

Fossil fuels-How long will it last?

Are they being replaced?

Are they more efficient?

Efficiency checklist

●We will use this chart to rate a
renewable resource.

●1. its efficiency either percent like
15% efficient

●Replenish rate as renewable
energy resources do replenish.
Some factors like intermittency
play a role more than others. If
intermittency cannot be
controlled than it is a medium
replenish rate

●Low rate is if it is dependent on
factors that can be wiped out .
For example, a pig methane
farm.

efficiency

Replenish rate

cost

Similar to the Tragedy of the Commons…

The way we treat our common Nonrenewable Energy resources matters.

When we misuse these resources, the result is waste and degradation

Taking Action

Individuals

http://journeytoforever.org/

Key words: Acting Local

Companies

https://blog.citigroup.com/2021/03/citi
s-commitment-to-net-zero-by-2050/

Key words: Net Zero

Is this a good source
according to SMASH?

(frogs)Reading essentials c.5-

1 Energy Resources.pdf

3W’s

(frogs)Reading essentials c.5-1

Energy Resources.pdf

Ticket of the Door

●
WHAT did we learn today

●
So what? Why is it
important?

●
Now what?

Let’s Gimkit!!
Share on camera what machines do to help
move things around

More Cool Ideas to
understand why we

use energy

Progress
Learning

Sustainability I this week

Natural energy(last week)

Any questions this is the time.

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into Progress learning and

submitting one these

assignment.

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