Transformations in Matter and Energy - life and earth sciences for middle/high school students
Middle and High school
The teaching units, designed for middle and high school science classes, focus on processes that transform matter and energy at multiple scales:
- Cellular and atomic molecular: combustion, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, digestion, and biosynthesis
- Organismal: growth and metabolism in plants, animals, and decomposers
- Ecosystem: matter cycling and energy flow
- Earth systems: carbon cycling and climate change
Carbon TIME units engage students in three-dimensional reasoning about these topics as questioners, investigators, and explainers.
Carbon TIME materials are developed by the Environmental Literacy Project at Michigan State University. The principal investigator is Charles W. (Andy) Anderson: andya@msu.edu.
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