Mississippi Science E.3.10.1
The Standard
- E.3.10
- Students will demonstrate an understanding that all materials, energy, and fuels that humans use are derived from natural sources.
Identify some of Earth's resources that are used in everyday life such as water, wind, soil, forests, oil, natural gas, and minerals and classify as renewable or nonrenewable.
2026 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science · Earth’s Resources
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students name the natural resources behind familiar things, such as water from a tap, trees used for paper, and oil used to make plastic. They sort resources by whether nature can replace them.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can identify wind as a source of electricity and minerals as materials used in coins. They classify wind and trees as renewable, and oil and minerals as nonrenewable. They explain that soil can renew, but it forms slowly.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call oil renewable because a gas station can get another delivery. They may call trees nonrenewable because a cut tree cannot grow back tomorrow. Some think soil forms as quickly as plants grow.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, have students sort wind, trees, oil, and minerals into renewable or nonrenewable, name one everyday use for each, and explain their choice for oil.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Pass around a cup of water, a twig, a rock, and a plastic spoon; have students name each resource and sort the items by renewability.
Have students write two sentences explaining why a forest can regrow but an oil field cannot refill in their lifetime.
Play a matching game with picture cards of a faucet, gas stove, paper bag, and coin, plus cards naming their natural resources.
Examine a plastic bottle and a paper notebook, then trace their materials to oil and trees and compare how those resources are replaced.
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