Pollutants produced by chemical changes | 9–11 years

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Connect your curriculum teaching on chemical changes to engaging sustainability contexts. This topic web suggests classroom activities linked to plastic degradation and clean cooking.

Chemical changes produce new materials which may or may not be good for our environment and health. This topic web contains sustainability context ideas and classroom activity suggestions for teaching chemical changes to 9-11 year olds. Explore how plastics degrade and how this contributes to climate change, or how burning fuels on inefficient stoves affects our environment and health.

Each web explains the background science, describes how scientists are working in this field, and suggests ways to explore this in the classroom.

How to use this topic web

This resource is part of our Sustainability contexts for primary science teaching collection. The topic webs in this collection are designed to help you link your existing curriculum teaching to sustainability issues.

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