Mississippi Science ESS.4.5
The Standard
- ESS.4
- Students will develop an understanding of Earth’s resources and the impact of human activities.
Enrichment: Research and communicate information regarding geoscience career options (e.g., geologist, petroleum engineer, meteorologist, paleontologist, astronomer, and oceanographer.
2026 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science · Earth’s Resources and Human Activity
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use reliable sources to research a geoscience career, then share what they find. They describe a typical task, the tools and training involved, and a question the worker helps answer.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain a career using a specific example of the work and name the source of their facts. They can answer a classmate’s question without confusing that job with another.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think meteorologists study meteors or that geologists only collect rocks. They may list job titles without finding out what people in those jobs actually do.
How to Assess It
- Give students a printed Bureau of Labor Statistics career page on atmospheric scientists. Ask them to name one meteorologist task, one tool, and the degree listed, then cite the page.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs printed job-task and tool cards for four careers; have them match the cards to careers and justify one match.
Have pairs discuss how a meteorologist and an oceanographer might each study a hurricane, using one fact from each printed career card.
Run a career clue quiz: read a job task, then have teams name the career and identify the clue that gave it away.
Show a local seven-day forecast and ask students how a meteorologist’s work could change a school field trip plan.
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