Chemistry in the Earth System · Week 25 · Chemistry of Climate Change
Greenhouse Gases
Modeling how greenhouse gases trap energy and naming the feelings that climate news brings up.
- Students will
- Students model how greenhouse gases absorb and re emit infrared energy and explain how that changes desert night temperatures.
- SEL skill
- Treat worry or curiosity as information that helps you think
- What it looks like
- Students notice that emotions like worry or curiosity carry information and can help them think.
- Content focus
- Greenhouse gases trap energy
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is knowing what you feel, think, value, and do well, and seeing how those things shape your actions. More self-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-ESS2-4: High School Earth and Space Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP2 Developing and using models
- Crosscutting concept: CCC2 Cause and effect
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle II: People influence natural systems
- Literacy in science: RST.9-10.7 Translate between quantitative or technical information in words, tables, graphs, and equations.
- Traditional course: Chemistry
Fits these textbook chapters
- Experience Chemistry, Investigation 9: The Behavior of Gases
- Experience Chemistry, Investigation 11: Global Climate Change
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 4: Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 11: Gases
- California HMH Science Dimensions: Chemistry in the Earth System, Unit 6: Human Activity and Earth's Atmosphere
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More self-awareness activities for Chemistry in the Earth System
- My Chemistry Story Self-awarenessStudents list the chemistry they already see in kitchens, fields, and cars and name the strengths they bring as scientists.
- Energy in Bonds Self-awarenessModeling the energy released and absorbed when bonds form and break, and noticing what drains or fuels students' own energy.
- Inside Earth's Engine Self-awarenessModeling convection in Earth's mantle and noticing what drives students' own inner motion.
- The Periodic Table as a Map Self-awarenessUsing the periodic table to predict properties and mapping personal patterns that predict good and hard days.
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