Chemistry in the Earth System · Week 15 · Atoms, Elements, and Molecules
Salt in the Sea
Explaining why ionic salts concentrate as water evaporates from the Salton Sea and considering how nearby residents experience the change.
- Students will
- Students construct an explanation using the idea that ionic salts stay behind as water evaporates, and consider how nearby residents experience the change.
- SEL skill
- Describe how people near the salton sea may see the same change differently
- What it looks like
- Students practice empathy and perspective by describing how people near the Salton Sea may see the same change differently.
- Content focus
- Salt in the Sea
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Social awareness
Social awareness is understanding and empathizing with others, and respecting the different backgrounds and viewpoints they bring. 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-ESS2-5: High School Earth and Space Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP6 Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Crosscutting concept: CCC1 Patterns
- 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
Fits these textbook chapters
- Experience Chemistry, Investigation 1: Atomic Structure
- Experience Chemistry, Investigation 3: Chemical Bonding
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 6: Chemical Bonding
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 7: Chemical Formulas and Chemical Compounds
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 10: States of Matter
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 12: Solutions
- Modern Chemistry, Chapter 13: Ions in Aqueous Solutions and Colligative Properties
- California HMH Science Dimensions: Chemistry in the Earth System, Unit 3: Patterns in the Properties of Matter
- 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.
- Reactions All Around Us Social awarenessExplaining reaction patterns in everyday life and noticing how our own reactions affect others.
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