Chemistry in the Earth System · Week 29 · Chemistry of Climate Change
Carbon Capture Design
Evaluating carbon capture solutions and their tradeoffs while building on each other's ideas in a design team.
- Students will
- Students evaluate carbon capture options against criteria and tradeoffs and explain the energy and matter involved.
- SEL skill
- Build on each other's ideas with yes, and
- What it looks like
- Students practice teamwork by building on each other's ideas with the phrase yes, and.
- Content focus
- Carbon capture design
- Format
- Small group problem-solving
Relationship skills
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What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- HS-ETS1-3: High School Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP6 Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Crosscutting concept: CCC5 Energy and matter
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle II: People influence natural systems
- Literacy in science: WHST.9-10.2 Write informative and explanatory texts, including scientific procedures and processes.
- Traditional course: Chemistry
Fits these textbook chapters
- Experience Chemistry, Investigation 11: Global Climate Change
- California HMH Science Dimensions: Chemistry in the Earth System, Unit 6: Human Activity and Earth's Atmosphere
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