Benchmark 8C The Designed World: Energy Sources and Use

Benchmark 8C
The Designed World: Energy Sources and Use
Grades 6-8, page 194

Different ways of obtaining, transforming, and distributing energy have different environmental consequences.

NSES Content Standard F
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Natural hazards
Grades 5-8, page 168
Human activities also can induce hazards through resource acquisition, urban growth, land-use decisions, and waste disposal. Such activities can accelerate many natural changes.

NSES Content Standard F
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Environmental quality
Grades 9-12, page 198
Many factors influence environmental quality. Factors that students might investigate include population growth, resource use, population distribution, overconsumption, the capacity of technology to solve problems, poverty, the role of economic, political, and religious views, and different ways humans view the earth.