California’s 2016 Science Curriculum Framework References

Welcome to the Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI) Curriculum! You reached this page from a reference in California’s 2016 Science Curriculum Framework. Use the link below to access the EEI Curriculum materials mentioned in the framework.

The footnote references The Life and Times of Carbon http://californiaeei.org/
curriculum/unit?unitid=69, an EEI Curriculum unit where students examine Earth’s various carbon reservoirs (for example, atmosphere, oceans, organisms/ biomass, coal and oil deposits). They investigate how the movement of carbon among its various reservoirs is central to the flow of energy and matter, both within and between natural systems and human communities. Students identify how the global carbon cycle is essential to all natural systems and organisms and to the functioning of human communities, economies, and culture. Some of the lessons explore human practices that can influence the global carbon cycle (for example, the movement of carbon among its various reservoirs). Students analyze trade-offs among different energy choices and discover that decisions about energy are based on a wide range of considerations that reflect our growing scientific knowledge of the global carbon cycle.

The EEI Curriculum consists of 40 science and 45 history-social science instructional units that were approved by the State Board of Education in 2010. Visit the EEI Home page http://californiaeei.org/ to learn more about the EEI Curriculum.