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Score: 8
Awarded the NGSS Design Badge
Science Discipline: Earth and Space Science, Life Science, Engineering
Length: Unit
Year Reviewed: 2023
In this unit students investigate the anchoring problem: we need farms to grow food, but the process of producing food for all of us can harm Earth’s systems. This unit is broken into three sections driven by student questions. These questions support students to investigate what is on a farm and how farms are a part of Earth’s systems, the problems on the farm, including the use of natural resources and impact on Earth’s systems, and potential solutions that reduce our use of natural resources and protect the Earth.
Link to Materials
The following link will direct you to the mySci: Using Our Resources Wisely unit page: mySci: Using Our Resources Wisely
NGSS Design Badge
Awarded: May 8, 2023
Awarded To: mySci: Using Our Resources Wisely
The NGSS Design Badge is awarded only to the version of this unit that was reviewed. If any modifications are made to this unit, the revised version cannot be promoted as having earned the badge.
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