Chemistry in the Earth System · Week 30 · Chemistry of Climate Change
Heat and Health
Communicating how extreme heat affects health and planning ways to check on vulnerable neighbors.
- Students will
- Students communicate how extreme heat harms the body, identify who is most at risk, and plan ways to check on neighbors.
- SEL skill
- Imagine how a neighbor in a heat wave experiences the risk
- What it looks like
- Students practice empathy by imagining how a vulnerable neighbor experiences a heat wave.
- Content focus
- Heat and health
- Format
- Role play
Social awareness
Social awareness means working to understand how other people think and feel, including people with different experiences than 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-ESS3-1: High School Earth and Space Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP8 Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- Crosscutting concept: CCC2 Cause and effect
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle I: People depend on natural systems
- Literacy in science: RST.9-10.2 Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text and summarize them accurately.
- Traditional course: Chemistry
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- 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.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.