Students will become acquainted with the impacts of electricity generation on wildlife. Students will research one or two generation technologies in groups and record its impacts on wildlife in a worksheet. They will then rank each technology based on its risks and impacts to wildlife.
The Details
Materials
- Student reading passages and student worksheets
Next Generation Science Standards
Cross-Cutting Concepts
- Stability & Change
Disciplinary Core Ideas
- ESS2.A Earth Materials & Systems
- ESS2.C The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes
- ETS1.A Defining & Delimiting an Engineering Problem
Learning Objectives
- Understand the different wildlife effects and risks from electricity generated by coal, nuclear, hydro, and wind
- Complete a thorough life cycle analysis of each of the fuels to understand how the different phases are related to the different wildlife effects