Science and Sustainability
Teacher's Guide Table of Contents
Introduction
Course Overview
The SEPUP Approach
Course Components and Design
Key Skills
Components of the SEPUP Assessment System
Teaching Strategies
Part 1 Living on Earth
1. Sustainable Living
2. Survival Needs: Food
3. Survival Needs: Temperature
4. Energy Transfer
5. Designing an Insulation System
6. Living in Today’s World
7. Modeling Human Population Growth
8. Population Dynamics
9. Changing Populations
10. Providing for the Population
Part 2 Feeding the World
11. Food Production
12. Necessary Nutrients
13. Cell Structure and Function
14. Earth’s Components
15. Classifying Elements
16. Photosynthesis
17. Plant Genetics and the Green Revolution
18. Breeding Improved Crops
19. Genetically Engineering Food
20. The Role of Cloning in Food Production
Part 3 Using Earth’s Resources
21. Identifying and Separating Hydrocarbons
22. The Chemistry of Hydrocarbons.
23. Clothing Materials
24. Materials Resources: Metals
25. By-Products of Materials Production
26. Catalysts, Enzymes, and Reaction Rates
27. Breakdown!.
28. Food Preservation
29. Refrigeration Technology
30. Economy of Material Use
Part 4 Moving the World
31. Fueling Trade-offs
32. Fuel From Food.
33. Exothermic and Endothermic Interactions
34. Energy From the Nucleus
35. Mechanical Energy
36. Trade-offs of Energy Use
37. Global Perspectives on Sustainability
Appendices
A. Assessment Overview
B. Scoring Guides.
C. Assessment Blueprints
D. Exemplars
E. Item Bank
G. Key Skills
H. Materials Not Included in Equipment Kit
I. Preparation of Solutions
J. Glossary
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