Parent plan · Week 26 · Energy, Water & Material Resources — launch — Physics & Environmental Science

Parent teaching plan · 36 weeks

Units to teach or revisit

Chapter 9 · Energy, Water & Material Resources

Assigned readings

Develop this chapter question: What makes a resource comparison fair and useful?

This week’s goals

Read Compare the service rather than the label on the technology at chapter launch and revisit it alongside this week’s linked units, figures and investigation.

Five flexible sessions, normally 50–60 minutes. Two core unit sessions are scheduled, with a third for selected demanding topics. Sample week uses a complete 90-minute paper plus about 30 minutes of corrections within two ordinary-hour equivalents.

Session 1 · Nonrenewable Energy & Fossil Fuels — build the model

Use the linked chapter reading, unit explanations, figures and notebook.

Your task

Read the chapter background and unit language. Draw a first model, study the core explanation and Parts 1–2, trace each figure and attempt the visual questions/checks. Complete a first worked case with its answer covered.

  1. Prepare the assigned explanation and identify the question.
  2. Trace a model or graph, labeling its quantities and units.
  3. Attempt the assigned reasoning and calculation before opening guidance.
  4. Compare with criteria and retain an explained correction.
Hint and response guidance

Name the objects, quantities, boundary and assumptions before choosing a relationship. Use the matching figure to check each step.

Yes. More of the existing resource may become recoverable under the changed conditions. 2000 MJ under the same operating model.

  • Use the supplied evidence and correct quantity/units.
  • Explain the relevant mechanism or relationship.
  • Show intermediate working or a labeled model.
  • State an assumption, limitation or useful next test.

Session 2 · Nonrenewable Energy & Fossil Fuels — apply and explain

Use the linked chapter reading, unit explanations, figures and notebook.

Your task

Study Parts 3–4 and selected source-model prompts, then attempt the whole-unit application, illustrated practice and changed independent case. Explain a correction, revise the opening model and complete the exit check.

  1. Prepare the assigned explanation and identify the question.
  2. Trace a model or graph, labeling its quantities and units.
  3. Attempt the assigned reasoning and calculation before opening guidance.
  4. Compare with criteria and retain an explained correction.
Hint and response guidance

Name the objects, quantities, boundary and assumptions before choosing a relationship. Use the matching figure to check each step.

A:8000/40=200 g/MJ delivered. B:7000/50=140 g/MJ. Upstream leakage, transport or construction is omitted; this direct comparison is not a complete life-cycle ranking.

  • Use the supplied evidence and correct quantity/units.
  • Explain the relevant mechanism or relationship.
  • Show intermediate working or a labeled model.
  • State an assumption, limitation or useful next test.

Session 3 · Renewable Energy — build the model

Use the linked chapter reading, unit explanations, figures and notebook.

Your task

Read the chapter background and unit language. Draw a first model, study the core explanation and Parts 1–2, trace each figure and attempt the visual questions/checks. Complete a first worked case with its answer covered.

  1. Prepare the assigned explanation and identify the question.
  2. Trace a model or graph, labeling its quantities and units.
  3. Attempt the assigned reasoning and calculation before opening guidance.
  4. Compare with criteria and retain an explained correction.
Hint and response guidance

Name the objects, quantities, boundary and assumptions before choosing a relationship. Use the matching figure to check each step.

Yes. Harvest, regrowth, land use and ecological conditions determine whether the actual use is replenished acceptably. 18/(3×24)=0.25=25%.

  • Use the supplied evidence and correct quantity/units.
  • Explain the relevant mechanism or relationship.
  • Show intermediate working or a labeled model.
  • State an assumption, limitation or useful next test.

Session 4 · Renewable Energy — apply and explain

Use the linked chapter reading, unit explanations, figures and notebook.

Your task

Study Parts 3–4 and selected source-model prompts, then attempt the whole-unit application, illustrated practice and changed independent case. Explain a correction, revise the opening model and complete the exit check.

  1. Prepare the assigned explanation and identify the question.
  2. Trace a model or graph, labeling its quantities and units.
  3. Attempt the assigned reasoning and calculation before opening guidance.
  4. Compare with criteria and retain an explained correction.
Hint and response guidance

Name the objects, quantities, boundary and assumptions before choosing a relationship. Use the matching figure to check each step.

Generation=5×0.30×2000=3000 kWh. The allocated storage input returns 400 kWh and loses/transfers 100 kWh under the stated boundary; do not apply the storage loss to energy that bypasses it.

  • Use the supplied evidence and correct quantity/units.
  • Explain the relevant mechanism or relationship.
  • Show intermediate working or a labeled model.
  • State an assumption, limitation or useful next test.

Session 5 · Water & Land Resources — build the model

Use the linked chapter reading, unit explanations, figures and notebook.

Your task

Read the chapter background and unit language. Draw a first model, study the core explanation and Parts 1–2, trace each figure and attempt the visual questions/checks. Complete a first worked case with its answer covered.

  1. Prepare the assigned explanation and identify the question.
  2. Trace a model or graph, labeling its quantities and units.
  3. Attempt the assigned reasoning and calculation before opening guidance.
  4. Compare with criteria and retain an explained correction.
Hint and response guidance

Name the objects, quantities, boundary and assumptions before choosing a relationship. Use the matching figure to check each step.

Some withdrawn water returns to the selected system, although timing and quality can change. −15 volume units per year. Continuing recharge does not prevent depletion.

  • Use the supplied evidence and correct quantity/units.
  • Explain the relevant mechanism or relationship.
  • Show intermediate working or a labeled model.
  • State an assumption, limitation or useful next test.

Submit this week

Parent / teacher weekly conference

Use actual written work to adjust support. Do not count a copied solution as independent mastery. Extend or redistribute time where needed; home-study records do not certify supervised or mandated laboratory requirements.

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