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Educator GuideSeptember 21, 2021

Carbon Capture and Climate Change Educator Guide

TILclimate carbon capture guide for educators
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This Guide for Educators was developed by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative as an extension of our TILclimate (Today I Learned: Climate) podcast, to make it easier for you to teach climate change, earth science, and energy topics in the classroom. It is an extension of the TILclimate episode "TIL about carbon capture."

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Description

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture and utilization (CCU) are growing technologies. In a hands-on chemistry lab, students can produce a key ingredient in low-carbon concrete. Through reading, discussion, and data exploration, students investigate the future and potential for CCS as one tool in our toolbox to slow climate change.

 

 

SWBAT:
  • Explain the basic concept of carbon capture and storage.

  • Explain why it is important to reduce carbon emissions.

  • Understand that no one technology will solve all the problems of climate change.

Skills:
  • Handling of simple chemicals
  • Reading and communication
  • Map-reading
Standards:
  • HS-ETS1-3 Evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem.

  • HS-PS1-2 Construct and revise an explanation for the outcome of a simple chemical reaction.

  • HS-PS2-6 Communicate scientific and technical information about why the molecular-level structure is important in the functioning of designed materials.

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI Reading Informational Text

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST Science & Technical Subjects

Disciplinary core ideas:
  • ESS3.A Natural Resources

  • ESS3.C Human Impacts on Earth Systems

  • ESS3.D Global Climate Change

  • ETS1.A Defining and Delimiting an Engineering Problem

     

What is included in this Educator Guide
  1. How to use TILclimate Educator Guides (Download)
     
  2. Teacher pages (Download)
    • Includes materials, discussion questions, background resources, and adaptation suggestions for science, social science, and ELA teachers
    • The chemistry lesson can be separately downloaded from the Biomimicry Institute
       
  3. Student pages (Download)
    • Reading: Concrete & Biomimicry

    • Reading & Discussion: Carbon Capture

    • Investigation: Carbon Capture and Storage Facilities (internet required)

 

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Group Project or Jigsaw
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Observation
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