Chemistry in the Earth System · Week 7 · Heat and Energy in the Earth System
Heat on the Move
Investigating how heat flows toward equilibrium and practicing strategies to bring heated emotions back to balance.
- Students will
- Students plan an investigation of how heat flows between objects and predict the final temperature of mixed water, then practice strategies for returning heated feelings to balance.
- SEL skill
- Choose a cool down strategy and describe how it moves a heated feeling toward balance
- What it looks like
- Students practice regulating emotions by choosing a strategy to cool down.
- Content focus
- Heat flow toward thermal equilibrium
- 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-PS3-4: High School Physical Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP3 Planning and carrying out investigations
- Crosscutting concept: CCC5 Energy and matter
- Literacy in science: WHST.9-10.7 Conduct short and sustained research projects to answer a question or solve a problem.
- Traditional course: Chemistry
Fits these textbook chapters
- Experience Chemistry, Investigation 10: Weather and Climate
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 10: States of Matter
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 16: Reaction Energy
- California HMH Science Dimensions: Chemistry in the Earth System, Unit 2: Heat and Energy in the Earth System
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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.
- 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.
- Equilibrium and Balance Self-managementRefining a design that shifts a reaction's equilibrium and practicing ways to restore emotional balance after stress.
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