Environmental Sustainability and Policy
Virginia SOL ENV.9
Investigate and understand how individual and collective actions influence environmental sustainability and policy at local, national, and global levels.
What students need to be able to do
- Make, support, and evaluate a claim about how consumer, corporation, and government choices can affect the environment.
- Compare the priorities of multiple stakeholders involved in an environmental issue affecting global and/or local ecosystem health.
- Debate advantages and disadvantages of possible solutions to an environmental problem.
- Research solutions that reduce effects of human activities on natural systems and propose solutions for school, home, and community.
- Explain the roles individuals, communities, and policies play in mitigating the negative effects of human activities on the climate.