Comparing earth system science Big ideas & Essential Principles

earth system science Big ideas with Brief expansion

2010 NAAEE Poster

The poster adds columns to the above Rainbow Charts from the National Research Council’s Framework for Science Education: Preliminary Public Draft, and the “Earth as a Physical System” section of the North American Association for Environmental Education, Excellence in Environmental Education: Guidelines for Learning (K-12)Click here or on the poster image above to download it as 9.2 MB, 32” x 40” poster.


See the associated Prezi here or embedded on the Big Ideas Page of virtualfieldwork.org.

Download the Rainbow Chart with both the three dimensions from NGSS and the Energy Literacy Essential Principles as a pdf. 
This is formatted for legal size paper.http://virtualfieldwork.org/downloadabledocs/BigRainbowChart09.2011.pdfhttp://virtualfieldwork.org/downloadabledocs/BigRainbowChart09.2011.pdfhttp://virtualfieldwork.org/downloadabledocs/BigRainbowChart09.2011.pdfhttp://virtualfieldwork.org/downloadabledocs/RainbowChart3D.pdfshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2

See more on the Big Ideas Page.