inquiryHub® Search for Life Kit
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inquiryHub® is a research-practice partnership that designs, tests, and implements tools and strategies that support teachers in promoting equity and justice in STEM education. Part of a full-year high school chemistry curriculum, inquiryHub® Search for Life is open access and available through Google Drive™. This NGSS-aligned unit is phenomenon-based and takes a storyline approach to support students engaging in 3-dimensional learning.
This unit on the structure and properties of matter focuses on the substances that scientists should look for when looking for life on other planets.
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Students explore the properties of substances necessary for life on Earth and how they interact with other substances, figuring out key ideas about charges on atoms and molecules, and patterns of bonding, focusing initially on the unique properties of water and then applying their knowledge to other elements.
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Students learn to use the Periodic Table to predict which atoms will react with other atoms and to identify substitutions for elements necessary for life on Earth that scientists could look for when searching for life on other planets.
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Students learn how scientists use probes to explore materials on planets in our solar system and information on light from other planets in far away solar systems to determine what elements are there.
Kit includes sufficient materials for 30 students working in groups of 4 (or less). Note: To download this 3-dimensional curriculum for FREE, click here.
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