Energy and Water Conservation

Sustainability connections to the Colorado Academic Standards

• A range of different organisms live in different places.

Lessons

• Conserving Earth's Resources

Sustainability connections to the Colorado Academic Standards

• Energy can be moved from place to place.
• Energy can be produced, used or released by converting stored energy.
• Energy and fuels that humans use are derived from natural sources and their use affects the environment in multiple ways.

Lessons

• Conserve Energy Lesson

Sustainability connections to the Colorado Academic Standards

• Societal activities have had major effects on land, ocean, atmosphere and even outer space.

Lessons

• 5th Grade ESS Lessons

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• EPA Water Resources
• CASDEM EngagED
• Water Ambassadors Program

Sustainability connections to the Colorado Academic Standards

• Humans depend on Earth’s land, ocean, atmosphere, and biosphere for different resources, many of which are limited or not renewable. Resources are distributed unevenly around the planet as a result of past geologic processes.

Lessons

• Energy Conversions
• Household Energy and Conservation Efficiency

Sustainability connections to the Colorado Academic Standards

• Energy flows and matter cycles within and among Earth’s systems, including the sun and Earth’s interior as primary energy sources. Plate tectonics is one result of these processes.

Lessons

• Energy Conversions
• Household Energy and Conservation Efficiency

Sustainability connections to the Colorado Academic Standards

• Energy changes to and from each type can be tracked through physical or chemical interactions. The relationship between the temperature and the total energy of a system depends on the types, states and amounts of matter.

Lessons

• Energy Conversions
• Household Energy and Conservation Efficiency

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• EPA Water Resources
• Resource Central
• Water Ambassadors Program

Sustainability connections to the Colorado Academic Standards

• Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be transported from one place to another and transferred between systems.
• Although energy cannot be destroyed, it can be converted to less useful forms as it is captured, stored and transferred.
• Resource availability has guided the development of human society and use of natural resources has associated costs, risks, and benefits.
• Sustainability of human societies and the biodiversity that supports them requires responsible management of natural resources, including the development of technologies.

Lessons

• Energy Conversions
• Energy and Atmosphere

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• EPA
• EPA Water Resources
• Resource Central