Mississippi Science E.8.10.1
The Standard
- E.8.10
- Students will demonstrate an understanding that a decrease in natural resources is directly related to the increase in human population on Earth and must be conserved.
Read and evaluate scientific information about advancements in renewable and nonrenewable resources. Propose and defend ways to decrease national and global dependency on nonrenewable resources.
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 read about newer energy technologies and check who wrote the information, when it was published, and what data supports its claims. They use that evidence to propose ways to cut fossil fuel use in the United States and worldwide.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain whether a graph supports an article’s claim about an energy technology. They can defend a specific plan to use less coal, oil, or natural gas and name a cost or limit.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think renewable energy has no environmental costs. They may also assume electric vehicles never rely on fossil fuels, even when the electricity comes from coal or natural gas.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short article excerpt and a graph about solar power. Ask them to identify one supported claim and recommend one way to cut fossil fuel use, using the graph as evidence.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Use demand tokens and coal, wind, solar, and battery cards to build a model power grid that still works after sunset.
Ask: Should our town replace diesel school buses with electric buses if local electricity comes from coal? Defend your answer with two facts.
Play Evidence Detective with two short energy articles; pairs score points for finding dates, data, authors, and claims without evidence.
Read a local utility’s fuel-mix chart; recommend one change to cut fossil fuel use and name one cost or limit.
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Related Standards
- E.3.10.2
Obtain and communicate information to exemplify how humans attain, use, and protect renewable and nonrenewable Earth resources.
- ENV.2.1
Differentiate between renewable and nonrenewable resources and compare and contrast the pros and cons of using these resources.
- ENV.2.4
Examine solutions for developing, conserving, managing, recycling, and reusing energy and mineral resources to minimize impacts in natural systems (e.g., agricu...
- E.8.10.3
Using scientific data, debate the societal advantages and disadvantages of technological advancements in renewable energy sources.
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