Sustainable management of energy and mineral resources is the focus of this Grade 11 Science resource, giving students practice evaluating resource decisions through life-cycle impacts, resilience, supply-chain constraints, and trade-offs.

Students examine how technical and policy approaches influence the management of energy and mineral resources. The resource connects extraction and processing decisions with reclamation, hazard exposure, resilience, supply-chain constraints, energy generation, mining practices, and grid-scale storage.

What Students Practice

• Compare technical and policy approaches using life-cycle impacts.
• Explain how reclamation and hazard exposure affect resilience in resource decisions.
• Evaluate supply-chain constraints when selecting sustainable extraction and processing strategies.
• Use examples to justify trade-offs among energy generation, mining practices, and grid-scale storage.

How to Use It

Use this Grade 11 sustainability worksheet for classroom practice, independent work, discussion preparation, or review within a Science unit addressing energy and mineral resource management. The tasks are designed around applying resource-management concepts to decisions rather than simply recalling terminology.

Why It Supports Instruction

The resource gives students a focused way to connect resource extraction, processing, reclamation, hazards, supply chains, energy systems, and storage. By weighing life-cycle impacts and practical constraints, students work with the kinds of trade-offs that arise when evaluating sustainable resource strategies.

Students encounter multiple-choice questions, true/false questions, short-answer responses, and applied decision-making tasks that reinforce comparison, explanation, evaluation, and evidence-based justification. The NGSS framework provides the curricular context for this Grade 11 Science resource.