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Cornucopia
Duration: 15+ minutes
Grade Levels: 5-12
In this browser-based game, students will manage a plot of land and earn technology upgrades to succeed at farming, while evaluating the water and land resource needs of various crops and livestock.
Grade Levels: 5-12
Duration: 15+ minutes
Concepts/Skills: food systems, sustainability, farming
Objectives: Students will:
- Evaluate and compare the water and land resource needs of various crops and animal food sources.
- Identify how changing weather and climate conditions such as drought affect water availability and food production.
- Investigate how agricultural technologies impact water use.
Climate Standards Connections
| Next Generation Science Standards | ||
| Grade | Performance Expectation | Description |
| 6-8 | MS-ESS3-4 | Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems. |
| Climate Change Connections | human impact | |
| Clarification Statement & Assessment Boundary | Examples of evidence include grade-appropriate databases on human populations and the rates of consumption of food and natural resources (such as freshwater, mineral, and energy). Examples of impacts can include changes to the appearance, composition, and structure of Earth’s systems as well as the rates at which they change. The consequences of increases in human populations and consumption of natural resources are described by science, but science does not make the decisions for the actions society takes. | |