Sustainability Strategies and Resource Use is a Grade 6 Science resource focused on Earth and human activity, helping students examine how population trends, resource use, and sustainability strategies can affect Earth systems.

What Students Explore

Students read about renewable energy, conservation, circular resource use, land management, and sustainability indicators. The lesson connects resource decisions with environmental, social, and economic needs while introducing the idea that sustainability choices can involve trade-offs.

Students also examine how communities can measure progress over time using indicators such as energy use, waste amounts, greenhouse gas emissions, and habitat condition. Concepts such as reusing, repairing, recycling, protecting habitats, improving soil care, saving electricity, and protecting water are addressed in context.

Student Practice

The worksheet uses a reading passage as the foundation for multiple-choice questions, true-or-false statements, short-answer responses, a labeled diagram, a categorizing activity, and a short note task. Questions ask students to identify renewable energy sources, explain circular resource use, recognize sustainability indicators, interpret trade-offs, and connect land-management practices with healthy ecosystems.

What’s Included

• ✔️ Student worksheet covering sustainability strategies and resource use
• ✔️ Student Notes lines at the bottom of the worksheet
• ✔️ Answer Key PDF
• ✔️ Teacher Guide within the Answer Key PDF
• ✔️ Teacher Guide sections for Learning Objectives, Teaching Tips, Discussion Questions, and Common Mistakes

Classroom Use

Use this Grade 6 sustainability worksheet for science instruction, guided reading, independent practice, review, or discussion preparation. The reading passage provides shared content for students to reference as they work through questions and activities, while the short-answer prompts create opportunities to explain how sustainability strategies can reduce pressure on resources or Earth systems.

The resource lists NGSS as its standard/framework and can support classroom conversations about responsible resource use, long-term sustainability, and the ways communities evaluate environmental conditions and resource demands.

By connecting population growth and resource demand with practical strategies such as renewable energy, conservation, circular resource use, and land management, this resource gives students specific science concepts to apply rather than treating sustainability as a broad vocabulary topic.