Chemistry in the Earth System: Integrating Chemistry and Earth and Space Science
Chemistry in the Earth System: Integrating Chemistry and Earth and Space Science
Your Pacing Guide for 3-Dimensional Teaching
Turn to labs that can help you lead students to succeed. Carolina Kits 3D® investigations engage students in scientific and engineering practices while applying core ideas and crosscutting concepts—experiences that are key to thriving with the NGSS and phenomena-based learning.
Address phenomena throughout the school year with this week-by-week lab activity guide.
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| Combustion | ||
|---|---|---|
| Week | PE | Lab Activity |
| 1 | Introduction, math review, lab skills, and lab safety | |
| 2 | HS-PS1-3, HS-PS1-3 | Chemical Bonding Making Sense of Solubility |
| 3 | HS-PS1-3 | Modeling Phase Change |
| 4 | HS-PS1-4 HS-PS1-4 |
Endothermic Reaction: Beaker Freezer It’s Not Heat, It’s Thermochemistry |
| 5 | HS-PS1-7 | Endothermic Reaction: Beaker Freezer It’s Not Heat, It’s Thermochemistry |
| 6 | HS-PS3-1 | Heat of Combustion in Biofuels |
| Heat and Energy in the Earth System | ||
|---|---|---|
| Week | PE | Lab Activity |
| 7 | HS-PS3-1 | It's Not Heat, It's Thermochemistry |
| 8 | HS-PS3-2 | Carolina® Mapping Electric Fields Kit |
| 9 | HS-PS3-4, HS-PS3-2 | Carolina® First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics |
| 10 | HS-PS3-4 | Carolina STEM Challenge®: Keep It Hot |
| 11 | HS-ESS2-3 | Plate Tectonics and Island Formation |
| Atoms, Elements, and Molecules |
|---|
| Week | PE | Lab Activity |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | HS-PS1-1 | Periodic Table Inquiry |
| 13 | HS-PS1-1 | Like a Salt to a Flame |
| 14 | HS-PS1-2, HS-PS1-2 | Metal Activity Series Chemical Bonding |
| 15 | HS-PS1-2 | Crystal Garden |
| 16 | HS-PS1-2 | Petri Dish Electrolysis |
| 17 | HS-LS1-6 | Food Nutrient Analysis |
| Chemical Reactions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Week | PE | Lab Activity |
| 18 | HS-PS1-7 | Balancing Chemical Reactions |
| 19 | HS-PS1-3 | Chemical Bonding |
| 20 | HS-PS1-4 | Iodine Clock Reaction |
| 21 | HS-PS1-5, HS-PS1-5 | Blue Bottle Reaction Rate of an Antacid |
| 22 | HS-PS1-7 | Mystery Chemical Reactions |
| 23 | HS-PS1-7 | Balloon Stoichiometry |
| 24 | HS-PS1-7, HS-PS1-2 | Introduction to Stoichiometry |
| 25 | HS-PS2-4 | Energy Transformations with Irradiated Salt |
| 26 | HS-PS3-5 | Carolina® Introduction to Electromagnetism |
| Chemistry of Climate Change | ||
|---|---|---|
| Week | PE | Lab Activity |
| 27 | HS-ESS2-2, HS-ESS2-4 | Climate Variation |
| 28 | HS-ESS3-2 | No kit available |
| 29 | HS-ESS3-5 | Analyzing Patterns in Climate Change |
| 30 | HS-ESS3-6, HS-ESS2-2 | Earth Systems and Climate Change |
| Dynamics of Chemical Reactions and Ocean Acidification | ||
|---|---|---|
| Week | PE | Lab Activity |
| 31 | HS-PS1-5, HS-PS1-6 | Chemical Equilibrium and Le Châtelier's Principle |
| 32 | HS-PS1-6 | Under Pressure |
| 33 | HS-PS1-6, HS-PS3-3 | Carolina STEM Challenge®: Chemical Reaction Rockets |
| 34 | HS-ESS2-2 | Earth Systems and Climate Change |
| 35 | HS-ESS2-6 | Modeling the Carbon Cycle |
| 36 | Assessment, Remediation, and Exams | |
