Chemistry in the Earth System · Week 5 · Combustion and Energy
Clean Air Questions
Evaluating information about combustion pollution and considering how air quality affects families differently across the valley.
- Students will
- Students evaluate claims about combustion pollution, identify causes and effects in air quality data, and consider how air quality can affect families differently.
- SEL skill
- Imagine how the same air quality affects different families
- What it looks like
- Students practice empathy by considering how the same air feels to different families.
- Content focus
- Evaluating information about air pollution
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Social awareness
Social awareness is the skill of seeing a situation through someone else's eyes and caring about how it affects them, especially when their life is different from yours. More social awareness activities
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-ESS3-4: High School Earth and Space Science performance expectation
- RI.9-10.8: Reading: Informational Text, Grades 9 to 10, Standard 8
- Science and engineering practice: SEP8 Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- Crosscutting concept: CCC2 Cause and effect
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle II: People influence natural systems
- Literacy in science: RST.9-10.8 Evaluate the hypotheses, data, analysis, and conclusions in a science text.
- Traditional course: Chemistry
Fits these textbook chapters
- Experience Chemistry, Investigation 8: Thermochemistry
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 11: Gases
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 14: Acids and Bases
- California HMH Science Dimensions: Chemistry in the Earth System, Unit 6: Human Activity and Earth's Atmosphere
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More social awareness activities for Chemistry in the Earth System
- Hot Springs of the Desert Social awarenessExplaining the geothermal heating of local hot springs and learning how the Agua Caliente people have valued them for generations.
- Attractions Between Particles Social awarenessInvestigating how intermolecular forces explain boiling points and how small signals shape relationships.
- Salt in the Sea Social awarenessExplaining why ionic salts concentrate as water evaporates from the Salton Sea and considering how nearby residents experience the change.
- Reactions All Around Us Social awarenessExplaining reaction patterns in everyday life and noticing how our own reactions affect others.
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