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Teach Engineering: Battling for Oxygen ActivityTeach Engineering: Battling for Oxygen Activity
Publisher
TeachEngineering
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Grade
3rd - 8th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Activities & Projects
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For Administrator Use
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Lexile Measures
1220L
Activity

Teach Engineering: Battling for Oxygen

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Using gumdrops and toothpicks, students conduct a large-group, interactive ozone depletion model. Students explore the dynamic and competing upper atmospheric roles of the protective ozone layer, the sun's UV radiation and harmful human-made CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons).

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Concepts

air pollution, chlorofluorocarbons, engineering, ozone depletion, stem

Additional Tags

environmental engineering, ozone, cfcs, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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