APPENDIX B: NGSS connections: Year-long activity
The NGSS DCIs addressed by this fully integrated project included, but were not limited to, the following:
• HS-LS2-1: Ecosystems have carrying capacities which are limits to the numbers of organisms and populations they can support. These limits result from such factors as the availability of living and nonliving resources and from such challenges as predation, competition, and disease;
• HS-LS4-6: Humans depend on the living world for the resources and other benefits provided by biodiversity. But human activity is also having adverse impacts on biodiversity through overpopulation, overexploitation, habitat destruction, pollution, introduction of invasive species, and climate change;
• HS-ESS3-2: All forms of energy production and other resource extraction have associated economic, social, environmental, and geopolitical costs and risks as well as benefits;
• HS-ESS3-3: The sustainability of human societies and the biodiversity that supports them requires responsible management of natural resources;
• HS-ETS1-1: Humanity faces major global challenges today, such as the need for supplies of clean water and food… which can be addressed through engineering. These global challenges also may have manifestations in local communities; and
• HS-ETS1-3: When evaluating solutions, it is important to take into account a range of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and aesthetics, and to consider social, cultural, and environmental impacts.
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