Chemistry in the Earth System · Week 19 · Chemical Reactions
Reactions All Around Us
Explaining reaction patterns in everyday life and noticing how our own reactions affect others.
- Students will
- Students use patterns to sort everyday changes into reaction types and explain why lemon juice slows browning in a cut apple.
- SEL skill
- Notice how your own reactions affect others and choose a response
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-awareness by noticing their own reactions and how those reactions affect a moment.
- Content focus
- Reactions All Around Us
- Format
- Role play
Social awareness
Self-awareness is the skill of noticing your own emotions, thoughts, and reactions and understanding how they affect your behavior and others. 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-PS1-2: High School Physical Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP6 Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Crosscutting concept: CCC1 Patterns
- Literacy in science: RST.9-10.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts.
- Traditional course: Chemistry
Fits these textbook chapters
- Experience Chemistry, Investigation 6: Chemical Reactions
- Experience Chemistry, Investigation 7: Stoichiometry
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 1: Matter and Change
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 8: Chemical Equations and Reactions
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 19: Oxidation-Reduction Reactions
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 20: Electrochemistry
- California HMH Science Dimensions: Chemistry in the Earth System, Unit 4: Chemical Attractions
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More social awareness activities for Chemistry in the Earth System
- Clean Air Questions Social awarenessEvaluating information about combustion pollution and considering how air quality affects families differently across the valley.
- Hot Springs of the Desert Social awarenessExplaining the geothermal heating of local hot springs and learning how the Agua Caliente people have valued them for generations.
- 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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