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Aerosoles

Overview

Aprende qué son los aerosoles y cómo contribuyen a la contaminación atmosférica.

Activity Type:

Video

Target Grade Level:

6-8, 9-12

Estimated Duration:

8 minutes

Topics:

Air

Possible Connections to NGSS

Performance Expectations

5-ESS3-1: Combine and obtain information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect Earth’s resources and environment. 

MS-ESS3-4: Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.

MS-ESS3-5: Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.

HS-ETS1-1: Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints for solutions that account for societal needs and wants.

HS-ESS2-2: Analyze geoscience data to make the claim that one change to Earth's surface can create feedbacks that cause changes to other Earth systems.


Created by:

Profesora Aide Escalante

Profesora Aide Escalante

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