Source: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Strand 1: Properties and Principles of Matter and Energy 

2.  Concept A 

• Earth and Space Science
  C. Identify and evaluate advantages/disadvantages of using various sources of energy (e.g., wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, biomass, fossil fuel, electromagnetic radiation) for human activity.

• Physics I
  E. Identify and evaluate advantages/disadvantages of using various sources of energy (e.g., wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, biomass, fossil fuel, electromagnetic radiation) for human activity.

• Physical Science 
  D. Identify and evaluate advantages/disadvantages of using various sources of energy (e.g., wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, biomass, fossil fuel, electromagnetic radiation) for human activity.

2. Concept C: Electromagnetic energy from the Sun (solar radiation) is a major source of energy on Earth.

Strand 4: Changes in Ecosystems and Interactions of Organisms with Their Environment

1. Concept A: All populations living together within a community interact with one another and with their environment in order to survive and maintain a balanced ecosystem.

1. Concept B: Living organisms have the capacity to produce populations of infinite size, but environments and resources are limited.

1. Concept C: All organisms, including humans, and their activities cause changes in their environment that affect the ecosystem.

• Earth and Space Science 
  A. Predict and explain how natural or human caused changes (biological, chemical and/or physical) in one ecosystem may affect other ecosystems due to natural mechanisms (e.g. global wind patterns, water cycle, ocean currents)

1. Concept D: The diversity of species within an ecosystem is affected by the changes in the environment, which can be cause by other organisms or outside processes.

2. Concept B: Matter is recycled through an ecosystem.

• Earth and Space Science
  A. Explain the processes involved in the recycling of nitrogen, oxygen and carbon through an ecosystem. 

Strand 5: Processes and Interactions of the Earth’s Systems (Geosphere, Atmosphere, and Hydrosphere)

1. Concept C: The atmosphere is composed of a mixture of gases, including water vapor, and minute particles.

2. Concept F: Climate is a description of average weather conditions in a given area due to the transfer of energy and matter through Earth’s system.

• Chemistry I
  A. Provide evidence (e.g. variations in sea level, glaciation, and permafrost layers, fossils, desertification) that supports theories of climate change due to natural phenomena and/or human interactions. 

• Earth and Space Science 
  E. Provide evidence (e.g. variations in sea level, glaciation, and permafrost layers, fossils, desertification) that supports theories of climate change due to natural phenomena and/or human interactions.

3. Concept A:  Earth’s materials are limited natural resources affected by human activity.

• Physics I
  A. Distinguish between renewable and nonrenewable energy resources
  B. Identify human activities that might adversely affect the composition of the atmosphere, hydrosphere or geosphere

• Earth and Space Science
  B. Identify human activities that might adversely affect the composition of the atmosphere, hydrosphere or geosphere
  C. Predict local and/or global effects of environmental changes when given a scenario describing how the composition of the geosphere, hydrosphere or atmosphere is altered by natural phenomena or human activities
  D. Recognize the economic, political, social and ethical constraints associated with obtaining and using natural resources (e.g., mining and use of different types of Missouri mineral resources such as lead mining, gravel dredging, strip mining, coal burning, production of fertilizers and explosives; use of fossil fuels versus renewable resources) 

Strand 6: Composition and Structure of the Universe and the Motion of the Objects Within It

1. Concept B: The earth has a composition and location suitable to sustain life.

• Physical Science
  A. Explain how Earth’s environmental characteristics and location in the universe (e.g., atmosphere, temperature, orbital path, magnetic field, mass-gravity, location in solar system) provide a life-supporting environment

• Physics 1
  A. Explain how Earth’s environmental characteristics and location in the universe (e.g., atmosphere, temperature, orbital path, magnetic field, mass-gravity, location in solar system) provide a life-supporting environment
  
  Earth and Space Science
  A. Explain how Earth’s environmental characteristics and location in the universe (e.g., atmosphere, temperature, orbital path, magnetic field, mass-gravity, location in solar system) provide a life-supporting environment

Strand 8: Impacts of Science, Technology and Human Activity 

1. Concept B: Social, political, economic, ethical and environmental factors strongly influence, and are influenced by, the direction of progress of science and technology.

• Physical Science
  A. Identify and describe major scientific and technological challenges to society and their ramifications for public policy (e.g., global warming, limitations to fossil fuels, genetic engineering of plants, space and/or medical research. 
  B. Identify and evaluate the drawbacks (e.g., design constraints, unintended consequences, risks) and benefits of technological solutions to a given problem (e.g., use of alternative energies to reduce the use of carbon fuels, use of satellite communications to gather information)

• Physics II
  B. Identify and describe major scientific and technological challenges to society and their ramifications for public policy (e.g., global warming, limitations to fossil fuels, genetic engineering of plants, space and/or medical research. 
  C. Identify and evaluate the drawbacks (e.g., design constraints, unintended consequences, risks) and benefits of technological solutions to a given problem (e.g., use of alternative energies to reduce the use of carbon fuels, use of satellite communications to gather information)

• Chemistry I
  B. Identify and describe major scientific and technological challenges to society and their ramifications for public policy (e.g., global warming, limitations to fossil fuels, genetic engineering of plants, space and/or medical research. 

• Earth and Space Science
  B. Identify and describe major scientific and technological challenges to society and their ramifications for public policy (e.g., global warming, limitations to fossil fuels, genetic engineering of plants, space and/or medical research.
  C. Identify and evaluate the drawbacks (e.g., design constraints, unintended consequences, risks) and benefits of technological solutions to a given problem (e.g., use of alternative energies to reduce the use of carbon fuels, use of satellite communications to gather information)