Chemistry in the Earth System · Week 32 · Reaction Dynamics and Water Chemistry
Acids, Bases, and Balance
Investigating how buffers resist pH change and identifying the personal buffers that steady us.
- Students will
- Students explain how a buffer resists pH change by shifting a chemical equilibrium, compare buffered and unbuffered samples, and refine a design that uses a buffer to protect a fish tank.
- SEL skill
- Name personal buffers that steady you and compare them to chemical buffers
- What it looks like
- Students regulate emotions by naming personal buffers, such as people and habits, that steady them.
- Content focus
- Acids, bases, and balance
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-management
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What you get
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Standards
- HS-PS1-6: High School Physical Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP3 Planning and carrying out investigations
- Crosscutting concept: CCC7 Stability and change
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle IV: There are no permanent or impermeable boundaries that prevent matter from flowing between systems
- Literacy in science: WHST.9-10.7 Conduct short and sustained research projects to answer a question or solve a problem.
- Traditional course: Chemistry
Fits these textbook chapters
- Experience Chemistry, Investigation 12: Reaction Rates and Equilibrium
- Experience Chemistry, Investigation 13: Acid-Base Equilibria
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 14: Acids and Bases
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 15: Acid-Base Titration and pH
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 18: Chemical Equilibrium
- California HMH Science Dimensions: Chemistry in the Earth System, Unit 7: Chemical Equilibrium Systems
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More self-management activities for Chemistry in the Earth System
- Fire and Fuel Self-managementBalancing combustion equations to show conservation of mass and breaking a hard goal into balanced small steps.
- Heat on the Move Self-managementInvestigating how heat flows toward equilibrium and practicing strategies to bring heated emotions back to balance.
- Structure Shapes Function Self-managementCommunicating why molecular structure matters for designed materials and connecting personal structure, like routines, to how well we function.
- Conservation of Mass Self-managementUsing mole ratios to show mass is conserved and tracking how effort adds up even when results are not yet visible.
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