Educational Standards: Energy Academy

K-2nd grade:

  • K.20 Identify ways people interact with their environment, including using natural resources.
  • 1.21 Describe how scarcity requires people to make choices.
  • 2.18 Explain how scarcity of resources and opportunity costs require people to make choices to satisfy wants and needs.
  • 2.19 Identify how people use natural (renewable and non-renewable), human, and capital resources to provide goods and services.

3rd-5th grade:

  • 3.16 Identify how people use natural (renewable and non-renewable), human, and capital resources to provide goods and services.
  • 3.27 Describe the importance of conservation and preservation.3-PS2-3 Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.
  • 4-PS3-2 Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
  • 4-ESS3-1 Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from renewable and non-renewable resources and how their uses affect the environment.
  • 5-ESS3-1 Generate and compare multiple solutions about ways individual communities can use science to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.

6th-8th grade:

  • 6-MS-PS2-3 Ask questions about data to determine the factors that affect the strength of electric and magnetic forces.
  • 6-MS-PS2-5 Conduct an investigation and evaluate the experimental design to provide evidence that fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even though the objects are not in contact.
  • 6-MS-PS3-1 Construct and interpret graphical displays of data to describe the relationships of kinetic energy to the mass of an object and to the speed of an object.
  • 6-MS-PS3-2 Develop a model to describe that when the arrangement of objects interacting at a distance changes, different amounts of potential energy are stored in the system.
  • 6-MS-ESS3-4 Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.
  • 7-MS-ESS3-5 Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.
  • 8-MS-PS3-5 Construct, use, and present arguments to support the claim that when the kinetic energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from the object.
  • 8-MS-ESS3-1 Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes.