Actvity Summary: Don’t Try This at Home is an inquiry-based activity focusing on methane hydrates. This activity helps teachers foster a class-wide discussion to form a question and hypothesis and design an experiment to discover what methane hydrates are and how they relate to the gas laws.
- Patterns
- Cause and effect
- Energy and matter
- Structure and function
- Stability and change
- Analyzing and interpreting data
- Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Engaging in argument from evidence
- ESS1. C The history of the planet Earth
- ESS2.A Earth materials and systems
- ESS2.B Plate tectonics and large-scale system interactions
- ESS2.C The roles of water in Earth’s surface processes
- ESS3.A Natural Resources
- ESS3.B Natural Hazards
- LS2.B Cycles of matter and energy transfer in ecosystems
- PS1.B Chemical reactions
- PS2.A Forces and motion
- PS3.B Conservation of energy and energy transfer
- PS4.B Electromagnetic radiation