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🔬 6th Grade · ScienceMS-ESS3-1Unit 4: Resources & human impact

Natural resources

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🎯 Objective: Students explain how geologic processes cause uneven distribution of resources.

Lesson outline

  1. Map resources.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: one resource.

Lesson 1 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

MS-ESS3-1

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), middle school — Earth & Space Science (discipline-specific model)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Explain how resources are unevenly distributed
  • Design a method to reduce human impact

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Science🦫 Kids encyclopedia⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Resources & human impact”

  1. Natural resources
  2. Population and consumption
  3. Reduce our impact

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