The Podcast: NGSS Core Ideas: Earth and Human Activity: DCIs and Strategies for Elementary Grades is a segment of the web seminar: NGSS Core Ideas: Earth and Human Activity, December 3, 2013. The podcast is 9 minutes 32 seconds in duration.

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The source web seminar took place on December 3, 2013, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time. The presenters were Susan Buhr Sullivan, Director of the CIRES Education and Outreach Group at University of Colorado; and Aida Awad, Science Department Chair at Maine East High School in Park Ridge, IL and president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT). This was the seventh web seminar in a series focused on the disciplinary core ideas that are part of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The program featured strategies for teaching about Earth science concepts that answer questions such as "How do humans depend on Earth's resources?" and "How do humans change the planet?"