Chemistry in the Earth System · Week 35 · Reaction Dynamics and Water Chemistry
Reflecting on Chemistry
Students revisit their chemistry story and explain how their understanding and confidence transformed like reactants into products.
- Students will
- Students use conservation of mass to explain that atoms are rearranged, not lost, and apply that idea to how they changed this year.
- SEL skill
- Name how your confidence and understanding changed over the year
- What it looks like
- Students recognize emotions by naming how their confidence and understanding changed over the year.
- Content focus
- Reflecting on chemistry
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means paying attention to your own feelings, values, and strengths and how they guide your choices. 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-PS1-7: High School Physical Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP8 Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- Crosscutting concept: CCC7 Stability and change
- Literacy in science: WHST.9-10.9 Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
- Traditional course: Chemistry
Fits these textbook chapters
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 1: Matter and Change
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 3: Atoms: The Building Blocks of Matter
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 8: Chemical Equations and Reactions
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 9: Stoichiometry
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 23: Biological Chemistry
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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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