Chemistry in the Earth System · Week 27 · Chemistry of Climate Change
Climate Worry and Action
Using a computational model of human emissions and Earth systems and turning climate worry into small hopeful actions.
- Students will
- Students use a simple computational model to compare emissions scenarios and explain how human choices change Earth system outcomes.
- SEL skill
- Name worry and choose one small hopeful action you control
- What it looks like
- Students regulate worry by naming it and choosing one small hopeful action they control.
- Content focus
- Climate worry and action
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-management
Self-management means choosing how to respond to your emotions and thoughts so you can keep moving toward what matters to you. More self-management 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-ESS3-6: High School Earth and Space Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP5 Using mathematics and computational thinking
- Crosscutting concept: CCC4 Systems and system models
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle II: People influence natural systems
- Literacy in science: WHST.9-10.1 Write arguments focused on discipline specific content.
- 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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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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