Chemistry in the Earth System · Week 34 · Reaction Dynamics and Water Chemistry
Engineering Clean Water
Breaking a water treatment problem into smaller parts as a team and repairing trust when ideas clash.
- Students will
- Students break a community water treatment problem into smaller parts and propose a design that meets criteria and constraints.
- SEL skill
- Name a conflict honestly and find a way forward with teammates
- What it looks like
- Students practice repairing trust by naming a conflict honestly and finding a way forward with teammates.
- Content focus
- Engineering clean water
- Format
- Small group problem-solving
Relationship skills
Relationship skills mean talking and listening well, working together, and solving problems with others in ways that keep trust strong. More relationship skills 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-ETS1-2: High School Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP6 Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Crosscutting concept: CCC4 Systems and system models
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle V: Decisions affecting resources and natural systems are complex and involve many factors
- Literacy in science: WHST.9-10.8 Gather relevant information from multiple sources and assess each source's usefulness.
- Traditional course: Chemistry
Fits these textbook chapters
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 13: Ions in Aqueous Solutions and Colligative Properties
- California HMH Science Dimensions: Chemistry in the Earth System, Unit 7: Chemical Equilibrium Systems
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More relationship skills activities for Chemistry in the Earth System
- Lab Partners Who Listen Relationship skillsTeams plan a reaction rate investigation and practice listening fully before deciding.
- Water Holds Heat Relationship skillsInvestigating water's high heat capacity and communicating results clearly to a partner group.
- Chemists Who Collaborate Relationship skillsResearching local chemistry careers in water treatment and agriculture and practicing collaborative information sharing.
- Carbon Capture Design Relationship skillsEvaluating carbon capture solutions and their tradeoffs while building on each other's ideas in a design team.
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