Students will present Science Fair Projects in class this week and continue with the study of chapter 7: Acids, Bases, and Solutions.
2nd 9 weeks' Grading Policy: Tests and Quizzes 50%; Classwork and Labs 40%, HW 10%. Remember: Late Work will not be accepted unless you have an excused absence.
Parents, we need paper towels and kleenex again. We also need small jars with tight-fitting lids for labs this week. Thanks in advance for all your help.
Students will have a lab to complete at home next weekend. Students will need an egg in order to complete the lab.
All students have been issued a science textbook and they should study it every night. Students also need their own goggles for lab activities.
Here is the information for accessing the online textbook: The book is linked below as Online textbook. NOTE: Students have to click on the link below and create their own username and password. The access code needed to register is PHSCBN09GAEN08T. Please try this and let me know if you still have problems using the online textbook.
www.pearsonsuccessnet.com
Access Code: PHSCBN09GAEN08T
Absent students with excused absences have three days to complete and turn in all missed assignments including classwork and homework. Please utilize the website to keep up with your work. Assignments are listed on this website in great detail so you should have no problems completing your missed assignments. You may get a handout from me upon your return to class if the assignment was a handout of some kind. Students will need to make up all tests, quizzes, and labs after school. This type of assignment must be made up within the approved three days for excused abscences also.
ALL STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE GOGGLES OR SAFETY GLASSES FOR LABS!
GPS: S8P1: Students will study the scientific nature of matter.
a. Distinguish between atoms and molecules.
b. Describe the difference between pure substances (elements and compounds) and mixtures.
c. Describe the movement of particles in solids, liquids, gases, and plasma states.
d. Distinguish between physical and chemical properties of matter.
e. Distinguish between changes in matter as physical or chemical.
f. Recognize that there are over 100 elements in the modern day Periodic Table.
g. Identify and demonstrate the Law of Conservation of Mass and Matter.
This week's lesson steps: (11/16/09-11/20/09)
Monday 11/16/09: Acids, Bases, and Solutions
Essential Questions: What is an acid? What is a base? What is a solution? What are the characteristics of of solutions, colloids, and suspensions?
Class Activities: Students will present their science fair projects and conduct experiments. Students will review chapter 6 test and participate in class review of chapter 7. Students will complete Discover Activity on page 222, and Lab Skills Activity on page 226. Students are working on the skills of designing their own experiments.
HW: Study chapter 7, and your notes from today's activities.
Tuesday 11/17/09: Understanding Solutions
Essential Questions: What makes a mixture a solution? What happens to the particles of a solute when a solution forms? How do solutes affect the freezing and boiling points of a solvent? Why is water called the "universal solvent"?
Class Activities: Students will continue presentations of their science fair projects. Students will complete 10-Minute Manager and read pages 222-227. Students will complete the Lab Zone Activity on page 224. Students will work in small groups to complete Section 1 Assessment and the At Home Activity on page 227.
HW: Study chapter 7, and your notes from today's activities.
Wednesday 11/18/09: Concentration and Solubility
Essential Questions: What is the concentration of a solution? How is concentration measured? Why is solubility useful in identifying substances? What factors affect the solubility of a substance?
Class Activities: Students will continue presentations of projects. Students will complete guided reading activity of pages 103-105, in their workbooks. Students will complete the Discover Activity on page 230. Students will complete Math Skills on page 231. Students will begin constructing a Unit One "Word Wall" for the classroom.
HW: Study chapter 7, and your notes from today's activities.
Thursday 11/19/09: Factors Affecting Solubility
Essential Questions: What factors affect the solubility of solutions? Name the factors and provide a detailed explanation of how the factor affects solubility.
Class Activities: Students will complete Predicting Activity on page 232. Students will complete Math Analyzing Data on page 234. Make sure you draw and label the graph and write the questions. Students will complete Math Practice on page 235. Students will watch Bill Nye video on Acids and Bases. Students will continue constructing a Unit One "Word Wall" for the classroom. Students will draw, label, and color the pH Scale on page 245.
HW: Study chapter 7, and your notes from today's activities.
Friday 11/20/09: Describing Acids and Bases
Essential Questions: What are the properties of acids and bases? Where are acids and bases commonly used? What do lemons and vinegar have in common?
Class Activities: Students will complete Discover Activity on page 236, and the Lab Zone Activity on page 244.
Students will continue constructing a Unit One "Word Wall" for the classroom.
HW: Study chapter 7 and your notes from this week. Enjoy the Thanksgiving Break!
Last week's lesson steps: (11/9-11/13/09)
Monday 11/9/09: Controlling Chemical Reactions
Essential Questions: How is activation energy related to chemical reactions? What is activation energy? What factors affect the rate of chemical reactions?
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 5 open book test. Students will complete chapter 6 workbook pages. Students will complete the handouts: "What Instrument do you Use?", and "Interview with an Electron".
HW: Study chapter 6, and complete your Science Fair or Social Studies project.
Tuesday 11/10/09: Rates of Chemical Reactions & Balancing Chemical Equations
Essential Questions: What are four ways that chemicts control the rate of chemical reactions? Which will react quicker: A sugar cube or an equal mass of sugar crystals?
Class Activities: Complete page 217. Draw the concept map and write the questions. Complete Math Practice on page 201, to balance chemical equations and understand the Law of Conservation of Mass.
HW: Study chapter 6, and complete your projects.
Wednesday 11/11/09: Veterans' Day
Thursday 11/12/09: Fire Safety
Essential Questions: What is combustion? What is a fuel?
Class Activities: Students will complete Discover Activity on page 206. Students will draw the diagrams in figure 13, on page 206. Students will review for chapter 6 test. SWISH!
HW: Study chapter 6.
Friday 11/13/09: Fire Safety
Essential Questions: How does baking soda affect a fire?
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 6 test. Students will complete the Discover Activity on page 212.
HW: Study chapter 7.
Last week's lesson steps: (11/2-11/6/09)
Monday 11/2/09: Chapter 5 Review
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 6 workbook pages and turn in all assignments that are due today. Teacher and student conferences will be held today also.
HW: Study chapters 5, and 6. Work on Science Fair or Social Studies' Projects.
Tuesday 11/3/09: Chemical Reactions
Essential Questions: How can matter and changes in matter be described? How can you tell when a chemical reaction occurs? What kind of change occurs when you toast a marshmallow?
Class Activities: Students will watch and take notes on the Bill Nye video about Chemical Reactions. Students will complete Lab Zone on page 186, and a lab to demonstrate differences in compounds. (Goggles required) Students will discuss science fair projects which are due on 11/12/09.
HW: Study chapters 5, and 6. Work on Science Fair or Social Studies' Projects.
Wednesday 11/4/09: Evidence for Chemical Reactions
Essential Questions: What is a chemical reaction? How is a precipitate evidence for a chemical reaction? What is activation energy?
Class Activities: Students will complete Math Analyzing Data on page 190, and "Where's the Evidence" lab on page 192.
HW: Study chapters 5, and 6. Work on Science Fair or Social Studies Projects.
Thursday 11/5/09: Describing Chemical Reactions
Essential Questions: What information does a chemical equation contain? What does the Law of Conservation of Mass state? What must a balanced chemical equation show? What are three catagories of chemical reactions? What are the three types of chemical bonds?
Class Activities: Students will finish the lab from yesterday. Students will practice writing chemical formulas and count the atoms in the formulas in figure 7, on page 195.
HW: Study chapters 5, and 6. Work on Science Fair or Social Studies Projects.
Friday 11/6/09: Conservation of Mass
Essential Questions: What are reactants? What are products?
Class Activities: Students will complete performance assessment lab to demonstrate the Law of Conservation of Mass.
HW: Study chapters 5, and 6. Work on Science Fair or Social Studies Projects.
Last week's lesson steps: (10/26-10/30/09)
Monday 10/26/09: Atoms and Bonding
Essential Questions: What is a chemical bond? What are the three types of chemical bonds? Define them. What is a valence electron?
Class Activities: Students will read and discuss chapter 5 main ideas. Students will review and correct chapter 4 final exam. Students will watch and take notes on the Bill Nye video on Chemical Reactions. Students will review the Elements of the Periodic Table crossword puzzle.
HW: Study chapters 5, and 6.
Tuesday 10/27/09: Atoms, Bonding, and the Periodic Table
Essential Questions: How is the reactivity of elements related to valence electrons in atoms? What does the periodic table tell you about atoms and the properties of elements? What is an electron dot diagram? What role do valence electrons play in the formation of compounds from elements?
Class Activities: Students will complete the Discover Activity on page 150. Students will complete lab activities on chemical reactions. (Handout) Students will complete page 179.
HW: Study chapters 5, and 6. Write up the Lab Zones on pages 166, and 174, as full labs that we will complete in class tomorrow.
Wednesday 10/28/09: The three types of Chemical Bonds
Essential Questions: What are ions, and how do they form bonds? How are the formulas and names of ionic compounds written? What are the properties of ionic compounds? What are the properties of metallic compounds? What are the properties of covalent compounds?
Class Activities: Students will complete the lab zones on pages 166, and 174. We will also complete a lab titled: "Covalent Marshmallows" in the Holt textbook.
HW: Study chapters 5, and 6. Complete the Lab Zone on page 161.
Thursday 10/29/09: Chemical Formulas and Names
Essential Questions: What is a chemical formula? What is a subscript? What is a coefficient? What is a reactant? What is a product? What is the law of Conservation of Matter?
Class Activities: Students will complete A Reactionary Puzzle (handout). Students will complete Thinking Critically and Applying Skills on page 180. Students must turn in all assignments and homework.
HW: Study chapters 5, and 6.
Friday 10/30/09: Observing Chemical Change
Essential Questions? What is a physical change? What is a chemical change? What is a chemical reaction?
Class Activities: Students will complete CRCT Prep on page 182, as an open-book test. Students will complete in class lab on Covalent Marshmallows to demonstrate differences in covalent and ionic bonds. (Holt Textbook, pages 680-681).
HW: Study chapters 5, and 6. Finish the labs on pages 166, and 174, that we started in class this week. Students in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th blocks need to complete the Covalent Marshmallows Lab that we worked on in class today.
Last week's lesson steps: (10/19-10/23/09)
Monday 10/19/09: Review for Chapter 4 Test and Teacher/Student Conferences
HW: Study for chapter 4 Test
Tuesday 10/20/09: Review for Chapter 4 Test and Teacher/Student Conferences
HW: Study for Chapter 4 Test which will be given on Thursday of this week.
Wednesday 10/21/09: Students will complete Chapter 4 Final Exam and will complete lab activities as assigned and our bubble maps comparing and contrasting the three classes of elements.
HW: Study for chapter 4 test. Organize 2nd 9 weeks' notes, etc. GET IT TOGETHER!
Thursday 10/22/09: Students will work on class periodic table and discuss progress to date in science class.
HW: Study chapter 5! GET SOME SCHOOL SUPPLIES!
Friday 10/23/09: Fall Break
HW: Study chapter 5! GET SOME SCHOOL SUPPLIES!
Last week's Lesson Steps: (10/12-10/16)
Monday 10/12/09: Metals
Essential Questions: What are the physical properties of metals? How does the reactivity of metals change across the periodic table? How are elements that follow uranium in the periodic table produced? What are the properties of nonmetals and metalloids? Why are metalloids useful?
Class Activities: Students will write up the lab on page 118 to the point of the experiment. This assignment should already be finished because it was assigned last week. We will complete this lab tomorrow. Students will complete Math Analyzing Data on page 121. Make sure you draw the bar graph and write the questions. Students will complete Section 3 Assessment on page 125. Write the questions. Students will complete the Skills Lab on pages 136-137. Make a large diagram of the periodic table and work hard to find clues to help you with this lab. Complete the "It's Elementary puzzle (handout). You may need to use the Holt book for this task.
HW: Study chapter 4. and make sure that you have completed all of today's assignments.
Tuesday 10/13/09: Nonmetals
Essential Questions:
1. What are the properties of nonmetals? What is a halogen? What are the noble gases? What is a diatomic molecule? What is a semiconductor?
Class Activities: Students need to finish all work from Monday. Students need to write up the Discover Activity on page 128, and the Lab Zone on page 132. Full lab write-ups are required as we will complete all labs on Wednesday when the teacher returns to class. Students will complete chapter 4 assessment on page 135. Students need to complete Lab Zone on page 141. Students need to draw, color, and label figure 40, on page 141. Students need to complete section 5 assessment on page 143.
Homework: Study chapter 4, and complete any unfinished classwork.
Wednesday 10/14/09: Isotopes
Essential Questions: What discoveries about the atom did Rutherford make? How do two isotopes of an element difffer and how are they similar? Why are elements heavier than oxygen produced in stars like the sun? What properties of radioactive isotoppes make them useful?
Class Activities: Students need to complete Thinking Critically and Applying Concepts on page 146. Students should write the questions and draw the graph. Students should complete the foldable on elements and compounds. This handout should be on the teacher's workstation. Students should complete the CRCT Prep on page 147. Remind students to make sure all work is completed from the past two days.
Homework: Study chapter 4.
Thursday 10/15/09: Power of the Periodic Table
Essential Questions: What is a valence electron? How many valence electrons do the elements in Group 1 have? How many valence electrons do the halogens have? What two groups of elements are most likely to bond together and why? What are the 3 isotopes of hydrogen?
Class Activities: Students will turn in all work assigned during teacher's absence. Students will watch and take copious notes on the video, "The Power of the Periodic Table." Students will complete a quiz on the video and may use their notes on the video quiz assessment. Students will complete a bubble map to compare and contrast the metals, nonmetals, and metalloids.
HW: Students need to study chapter 4. Bring science workbooks to class tomorrow and we will complete chapter 4 together during class. Students need to look up the 3 isotopes of hydrogen and draw pictures of the isotopes and label the particles in these isotopes. Students may copy and paste diagrams of the isotopes from the Internet and print them.
Friday 10/16/09: Radioactive Elements
Essential Questions: How was radioactivity discovered? What types of particles and energy can radioactive decay produce? What is radioactive decay? What are the alpha particles, beta particles, and gamma particles?
Class Activities: Students will work together to complete chapter 4 workbook pages and will review work completed this week.
HW: Study chapter 4. Complete all chapter 4 workbook pages that we did not complete in class today. Bring workbooks to class on Monday. Students in first block also need to look up the three isotopes of hydrogen and draw and label the particles in these isotopes. You may print the isotopes from the Internet if you like.
Last week's lesson steps: (10/5-10/9/09)
Monday 10/5/09: The Periodic Table of Elements
Essential Questions: Why was Mendelev able to predict the properties of elements that had not yet been discovered? What information does the organization of the periodic table give about elements? How do elements form in stars?
Class Activities: Students will participate in class review for tomorrow's cummulative final exam. We will review chapters 1-4.
HW: Study chapters 1-4.
Tuesday 10/6/09: The World of Physical Science?
Essential Questions: What have you learned this 9 weeks about Physical Science?
Class Activities: Students will complete cummulative exam by writing (and drawing diagrams) during the entire class period about what they have learned this 9 weeks about Physical Science.
HW: Study chapter 4. Make sure you have completed your element for the class Periodic Table. All work on the class periodic table is due tomorrow.
Wednesday 10/7/09: Organizing the Elements
Essential Questions: How are elements classified in the Periodic Table? What is a Period? What is a Group? What is a Chemical Symbol? What does the Atomic Number tell us about an element?
Class Activities: Students will complete the Discover Activity on page 102. Students will complete the Lab Zone on page 106. Students will complete the Discover Activity on page 109. Students will complete the Lab Zone Skills Activity on page 114.
HW: Study chapter 4. Make sure that you have completed Section 1, and Section 2 Assessments which we started in class last week. Both Section Assessments are due tomorrow.
Thursday 10/8/09: Organization of the Periodic Table
Essential Questions: What are the physical properties of metals? How does the reactivity of metals change across the periodic table? How are the elements that follow uraninum produced? What are the properties of nonmetals and metalloids? Why are metalloids useful?
Class Activities: Students will complete 10-Minute Manage and read psges 114-118. Students will complete the Discover Activity on page 118. Students will complete the Writing in Science Activity on page 117, if they have not already completed this assessment. Students will write advertidements to sell copies of Mendeleev's periodic table to chemists in 1869. Students will complete nuclear fusion and nuclear fission lab.
HW: Study chapter 4, and make sure that you have completed all of today's assignments. Study chapter 4 vocabulary for your vocabulary test tomorrow.
Friday 10/9/09: Metals
Essential Questions: What are alkali metals and where are they located in the periodic table? What are alkaline-earth metals and where are they located in the periodic table? How do alkali metals and alkaline earth metals react with other metals? What are transition metals?
Class Activities: Students will complete vocabulary tests over the terms in chapter 4. Students will complete the Math Analyzing Data Activity on page 121. Students will go on a metal scavenger hunt to make a list and classify the metals that they find in themselves, the class, and around the school.
HW: Study chapter 4, and make a list of the elements that you find in your breakfast cereal. If you do not eat cereal, check for elements in cereal at the grocery store or online.
Last week's lesson steps: (9/28/09-10/2/09)
Monday 9/28/09: Elements and the Periodic Table
Essential Questions: How did atomic theory develop and change? What is the modern model of the atom? What is atomic number, and how is it used to distinguish one element from another? What is an energy level? What particles are in the center of an atom? What is an atom? What is an isotope?
Class Activities: Students will watch the Bill Nye video on atoms and complete their circle maps about the atom. Students will complete the Discover Activity and a lab about using Indirect evidence to discover new concepts. Students need to copy the chapter 4 vocabulary which we began on Friday. Students may work on their States of Matter assignments by printing them in class or the library.
Homework: Complete your poem, song, story,etc. about the States of Matter and the properties and changes of matter. All typed work is due tomorrow. Study chapter 4.
Tuesday 9/29/09: Development of Atomic Models
Essential Questions: How did atomic theories grow? Who developed the earliest model of the atom? What does the word atom mean and what is the origin of the word atom? Who developed the first model of the atom that included smaller particles of the atom? What are these particles? Who developed the first model that included the nucleus of the atom?
Class Activities: Students will draw diagrams of models of the atom from the first models to the present day. Students will begin their presentations of their States of Matter compositions.
Homework: Students will make bio-data cards of the Scientists and their atomic theories. A Biodata card includes the scientist's name on one side of an index card and the scientist's atomic theory and model on the back of the index card. Students may use their own index cards or make sure to get cards from the teacher. Students may find pictures of their scientists on the Internet and include them on their bio-data cards. Study chapter 4.
Wednesday 9/30/09: Visualizing an Electron Cloud
Essential Questions: What is the electron and where is it located in the atom? Who discovered the electron? How was the electron discovered? If the solar system represents an atom, which part of the atom does the sun represent? Which parts of the atom do the planets represent? How are the electrons in Bohr's model like planets in the solar system?
Class Activities: Students will participate in class demonstration to help them visualize the electron cloud. Students will complete the LabZone activity on page 106. Students will continue their presentations of the States of Matter.
Homework: Study Chapter 4. Make sure that you have completed writing the vocabulary for this chapter. You may make a foldable or other graphic organizer of the terms.
Thursday 10/1/09: Organizing the Elements
Essential Questions: What are the particles that make up all elements in the Periodic Table? What pattern of elements did Mendelev discover? How did Mendelev discover the pattern that led to the periodic table? Why was Mendelev able to predict the properties of elements that had not yet been discovered? What information does the organization of the periodic table give about elements? How do elements form in stars?
Class Activities: Students will participate in class discussion of Section 1 of Chapter 4. Make sure you can answer the questions in Section 1 Assessment on page 108. Students will complete the Discover Activity on page 109. Students will begin to make a class periodic table.
Homework: Study chapter 4, and research information about the element you were assigned today for our class periodic table. Info needed: Name of Element (given by teacher); Chemical Symbol; Number of Protons, electrons, and neutrons; state of matter; classification of element; uses of element; and pictures for your element poster, etc. Use the links below to help you research your element.
Friday 10/2/09: The Periodic Table of Elements
Essential Questions: What is the Periodic Table? How is the Periodic Table arranged? Who is known as the Father of the Modern Day Periodic Table? How are the elements in the Periodic Table classified?
Class Activities: Students will work on the class periodic table. Students must have their research about their element in order to complete their part of the class periodic table. This will be your test for today.
Last week's Lesson Steps: (9/21-9/25)
Monday 9/21/09: Gas Behavior
Essential Questions: What types of measurements are useful when working with gases? How are the pressure and temperature of gases related? How are the volume and pressure of gases related? What causes gas pressure?
Class Activities: Students will complete 10-Minute Manager and read pages 83-89. Students will complete Section 3 Assessment on page 89. Students will begin the lab on page 94.
HW: Complete Math Practice on page 89, and work on today's lab.
Tuesday 9/22/09: Graphing Gas Behavior
Essential Questions: What type of relationship does the graph for Charles' Law show? What type of relationship does the graph for Boyle's Law show? Draw the graphs.
Class Activities: Students will go to the Computer lab to complete technology assessment. Students will discuss the lab on page 94. Students will read section 4 of chapter 3, and complete Section 4 Assessment.
HW: Read chapter 3, and complete your lab on page 94. The final lab assessment is due tomorrow.
Wednesday 9/23/09: Graphing Gas Laws
Essential Questions: How does the volume of a gas cause its pressure to change? What axis on a graph shows the manipulated variable? What does the line look like on a graph of Charles' Law? What type of relationship between temperature and volume does a graph of Charles' Law show?
Class Activities: Classroom Guidance with Mrs. Hardin. Students will complete Math Skills on page 85, and Discover Activity on page 90. Students will discuss lab on page 94. All labs are due today.
HW: Study chapter 3, and make sure that you have completed pages 97-99, which we have been working on in class all week.
Thursday 9/24/09: Review for Chapter 3 Test
Essential Questions: What is the process by which a gas cools and becomes a liquid called? What does a graph of Boyle's Law show? What are the states of matter?
Class Activities: Students will participate in chapter 3 review. SWISH!
HW: Study chapter 3 for your test tomorrow.
Friday 9/25/09: Chapter 3 Assessment
Essential Questions: What is an atom? What is the nucleus of an atom? What smaller particles make up an atom?
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 3 final assessment and begin chapter 4. Students will write stories, poems, songs, or skits about the states of matter and the changes in states of matter.
HW: Read chapter 4, and begin to type up your stories or poems that you wrote in class today. Please include pictures with your work. You may draw them or use clipart, etc. All work is due on Tuesday 9/29/09, and all work must be typed.
Last week's lesson steps: (9/14-9/18/09)
Monday 9/14/09: Preparing for the CRCT and Chapter 3
Essential Questions: What is the CRCT? What test-taking strategies do you use to answer questions correctly? What are the characteristics of a solid? What are the characteristics of a liquid? What are the characteristics of a gas?
Class Activities: Students will complete Preparing for CRCT on page 67. Students will complete chapter 2 test. Students will begin chapter 3 after the test and will complete pages 35-37 in their workbooks. Students will draw, label, and color figures 3, 6, and 8, on pages 72, 73, and 75.
HW: Read chapter 3. Complete workbook pages 38-40.
Tuesday 9/15/09: States of Matter
Essential Questions: Which is the easiest to hold in your hand: a small rock, 100 mL of water, or the helium from a balloon? What is a solid? What are the two types of solids and what is the difference between them?
Class Activities: Students will participate in class discussion of sections 1, and 2, of chapter 3. Students will complete the Discover Activity on page 70. Students will participate in class demonstration to model the particles in a solid. Students will complete drawing figures 3, 6, and 8, if they did not complete these diagrams on Monday. Students will correct their tests by writing the questions they missed and finding the correct answers.
HW: Read chapter 3, and complete workbook pages 41-47.
Wednesday 9/16/09: Changes of State
Essential Questions: What happens to a substance during changes of state from a solid to a liquid? What happens to a substance during changes from a liquid to a gas? What happens to a substance during changes between solid and gas? What happens to a puddle of water on a sunny day? What happens to ice on a warm day? What happens to a pond in very cold temperatures?
Class Activities: Students will complete Discover Activity on page 76. Students will complete Lab Zone on page 78. Students will complete Math Analyzing Data on page 80.
HW: Read chapter 3, and complete section 1 Assessment on page 75.
Thursday 9/17/09: Properties of Liquids
Essential Questions: What is surface tension? What is viscosity? How does breathing demsonstrate that gases are fluids?
Class Activities: Quiz: Homework Check. Students will participate in class discussion of homework. Students will complete QuickLabs to understand Bernoulli's Principle, and Pascal's Principle. (Holt Textbook, pages 166, and 177.) Students will complete Taking Flight Lab from Holt Textbook, page 661.
HW: Study chapter 3, and complete Science Data Sheet # 1. (Due 9/23/09)
Friday 9/18/09: Gas Behavior
Essential Questions: What is a gas? What types of measurements are useful when working with gases? How are the volume, temperature, and pressure of a gas related? What does Charles' Law state? What is Boyle's Law?
Class Activities: Students will complete lab to model the behavior of gas particles. Students will complete MAth Skills on page 85.
HW: Study chapter 3, and study and write up the lab on page 94.
Last week's lesson steps: (9/7-9/11/09)
Monday 9/7/09: Holiday
Tuesday 9/8/09: Changes in Matter
Essential Questions: What is a physical change? What is distillation? What is water?
Class Activities: Students will review all class assignments from last week. Students will complete CRCT Standardized Test. Students will finish "Adopt-an-Element" presentations.
HW: Complete Chapter 2: Section 3 and Section 4 reviews.
Wednesday 9/9/09: Changes in Matter
Essential Questions: What is a chemical change? How are changes in matter related to changes in energy? Why is the melting of an ice cube considered a physical change? Is dissolving sugar a physical change? Explain your answer. How does a chemical change differ from a physical change?
Class Activities: Students will complete Discover Activity on page 50. Goggles are required for this activity. Students will complete Lab Zone Skills' Activity on page 52. Students will participate in class discussion of homework.
HW: Study chapter 2.
Thursday 9/10/09: The Law of Conservation of Mass
Essential Questions: What does the Law of Conservation of Mass state? How is a chemical energy related to a chemical change? What are six forms of energy related to changes in matter? List and define the forms.
Class Activities: Students will draw, label, and color figure 19, on page 53. Students will complete Math Analyzing Data on page 55. Draw the graph and answer the questions in complete sentences. Students will complete Writing in Science on page 55.
HW: Study chapter 2, and make sure you read Science and Society on pages 56-57.
Friday 9/11/09: Science and Society
Essential Questions: What is a pure substance? What are the two pure substances and how do they differ from one another? What does the word hazardous mean? How are flammable and explosive examples of chemical properties? Is it possible to completely avoid transporting hazardous substances?
Class Activities: Students will participate in class debate about the options of transporting hazardous substances. Students will complete Lab Zone on page 59. Students will review for chapter 2 test.
HW: Study chapter 2.
Last week's lesson steps: (8/31-9/4/09)
Monday 8/31/09: Measuring in Science
Essential Questions: What is density? What are the units for expressing density?
Class Activities: Students will complete and review all assignments from Thursday and Friday of last week.
HW: Study chapter 2. Work on Projects, and complete all assignments that you did not complete during teacher's absence. Projects are due on Friday.
Tuesday 9/1/09: Metric Measurements (Cont'd)
Essential Questions: What is the difference between weight and mass? What is the metric system's correct name? What units are used to show the amount of space occupied by matter? How is the density of a material determined?
Class Activities: 1. Students will have a 10-Minute-Manager on pages 44-48, and then participate in a class dicussion concerning Section 2. Students will complete Section 2 Assessment(Reviewing Key Concepts).
Homework: Work on Projects and review Chapter 2: Section 3 in preperation for Tommorow.
Wednesday 9/2/09: Physical and Chemical Changes
Essential Questions: What is a Physical Change? What is a chemcial change? How are changes in matter related to changes in energy?
Class Activites: 1. Students will formulate 5 questions about section three and participate in answering those questions. 2. Students will complete Section Three Assessment (Reviewing Key Concepts)
Homework: Read Section Four of Chapter Two. Work on your projects.
Thursday 9/3/09: The Periodic Table
Friday: The Periodic Table
Class Activities: Adopt-an-Element class presentations
HW: Enjoy the Holiday Break!
Last week's lesson steps: (8/24/09-8/28/09)
Monday 8/24/09: Introduction to Matter
Essential Questions: What is matter? What are some physical properties of matter? What are some chemical properties of matter? What particles make up matter?
Class Activities: Students will preview the chapter and discuss the chapter project. Students will complete Discover Activity on page 34. Students will complete 15-Minute Manager and read pages 34-43, and participate in class discussion. Students will complete Lab Zone on page 36, and discuss the physical states of matter.
HW: Study chapter 2. 1st Block must also complete workbook pages for chapter 2: Section 1.
Tuesday 8/25/09: Elements
Essential Questions: What is an element? What is the smallest possible piece of matter? What is a chemical bond? What are molecules?
Class Activities: Students will watch Bill Nye video about atoms and complete Bubble Maps to describe atoms. Students will also complete the video quiz about atoms as a class quiz. Students will discuss their first project: Adopt-an-Element. Rubric will be provided and due date for projects will be discussed.
HW: Study chapter 2, and the Periodic Table of Elements in the back of the textbook.
Wednesday 8/26/09: Compounds and MIxtures
Essential Questions: What is a compound? What is a chemical formula? What is a mixture? What is the difference between homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures?
Class Activities: Students will compare and contrast types of mixtures using a Venn Diagram. Students will complete Section 1 Assessment on page 43. Students will discuss the Adopt-an-Element projects. Students will participate in lab activity about mixtures. Students will complete their Bubble Maps about atoms.
HW: Study chapter 2.
Thursday 8/27/09: Measuring Matter
Essential Questions: What is the difference between weight and mass? What units are used to express the amout of space occupied by matter? How is the density of a material determined?
Class Activities: Students will complete Chapter 2 in their workbooks. Students will complete Math Practice on page 47. Students will complete density crossword puzzle (handout). Students will complete the Scientific Method concept map handout. Students will complete the Concept Map on page 65. Students need to use the paper provided for this activity and do a great job on this performance assessment. You may complete the Concept Map on your home computers if you like and bring them to class.
HW: Study chapter 2, and work on Adopt-an-Element project. Due date for this project is 9/4/09.
Friday 8/28/09: Making Sense of Density
Essential Questions: What is density? What is the formula for density? What are the units for expressing density?
Class Activities: Students will complete first science MAP test. After test, students need to read chapter 2, and complete a foldable on physical and chemical properties of matter and physical and chemical changes of matter. Students also need to study and write up the lab on page 49(use your handout on "How to do a Lab Write-Up"). Students will complete this lab in class on Monday 8/31/09. Students should also complete any class activities that have not been finished this week.
HW: Study chapter 2, and work on Adopt-an-Element projects. Projects are due on 9/4/09.
Last week's lesson steps: (8/17/09-8/21/09)
Monday 8/17/09: Scientific Inquiry
Essential Questions: How do scientists invetigate the natural world? What is a scientific law? What is a scientific theory?
Class Activities: Students will complete the Gummy Bear investigation and continue to study the concept of density. Students will complete Analyzing Data on page 13. Students will complete the World of Physical Science crossword puzzle.
HW: Study chapter 1. Complete At Home Activity on page 17.
Tuesday 8/18/09: Designing an Experiment
Essential Questions: What is data? What is a manipulated variable? What is a responding variable? What is a controlled experiment?
Class Activities: Students will design and test paper airplanes as they learn to develop and test hypotheses.(Goggles required) Students will complete Section 2 in their workbooks and participate in class discussion of Scientific Inquiry. Students will complete Checking Concepts on page 30.
HW: Study chapter 1.
Wednesday 8/19/09: Mathematics and Science
Essential Questions: What math skills do scientists use in collecting data and making measurements? What is the difference between accuracy and precision? What is the mean, meadian, and mode?
Class Activities: Students will complete the Discover Activity on page 18. Students will complete 10-Minute
Manager of pages 18-22. Students will complete Section 3 Assessment.
HW: Complete Organizing Information on page 29, and Calculating on page 30. Study chapter 1.
Thursday 8/20/09: Chapter 1 Review
Essential Questions: How is a hypothesis different from a scientific theory?
Class Activities: Students will complete Applying Skills on page 30. Students will participate in class discussion and review of chapter 1 in preparation for tomorrow's test. SWISH!
HW: Study chapter 1 for tomorrow's test.
Friday 8/21/09: Preparing for CRCT
Class Activities: Students will take chapter 1 test and begin chapter 2. Students will complete CRCT practice exercise on page 31.
HW: Read chapter 2.
Last week's lesson steps: (8/10-8/8/14/09)
Monday 8/10/09: The World of Physical Science
Essential Questions: What is Physical Science? What is matter? What is mass? What is volume?
Class Activities: The Space Case lab is due today. Several students will demonstrate the lab in class today also. Students will complete their Safety Posters and discuss safety rules in the science lab. Students will begin the Scientific Method.
HW: Study your notes.
Tuesday 8/11/09: How Scientists Think
Essential Questions: What is the Scientific Method? What is a hypothesis? What is observing? What is inferring? What is qualitative observation? What is quantitative observation?
Class Activities: Students will complete lab activity using scientific inquiry and discuss safety rules.
HW: Study your notes. Look around your room at home and list three qualitatative observations and three qualitative observations.
Wednesday 8/12/09: The Study of Matter and Energy
Essential Questions: What is Physical Science? What is Chemistry? What is Physics?
Class Activities: Students will begin the Gummy Bear lab and discuss scientific inquiry and metric measurements.
HW: Study your notes.
Thursday 8/13/09: Scientific Inquiry
Essential Questions: What is the process of Scientific Inquiry? What tools do scientists use for scientific inquiry?
Class Activities: Students will complete Inquiry lab.
HW: Study your notes for tomorrow's test. (Open Book)
Friday 8/14/09: Designing an Experiment
Essential Questions: What is a variable? What is an independent variable? What is a dependent variable? What is a controlled variable.
Class Activities: Students will complete a test over their notes received this week. The test is an Open Book Test. Students will complete their own experimental designs and complete the Gummy Bear Lab.
HW: Study your notes and chapter 1 in your textbook.
Parents, we need your help with the following items:
Vinegar
Cornstarch
Baking Soda
Food Coloring (all colors are needed)
Playdoh (lots)
Paper Towels (numerous)
Hand Sanitizer (tons)
10 slinkys
Paper plates and cups
Plastic Spoons
Styrofoam Balls
Styrofoam Cups
String
Magnets
Sewing needles
Knitting needles
Balloons (all sizes)
Hot plates
Thermal Mitts
Small electric fans
Glass or plastic jars/ with lids (all sizes, but peanut butter and mayonaise jars are best.)
1, 2, and 3 liter bottles (clean with caps)
Students need their own goggles.
Email me from this website and let me know that you were able to access it. There is a link below to the science text book and you should now know how to find your textbook and locate the current material that we are studying in class. Please study by using this website and the online tools that are available for you.
Absent students with excused absences have three days to complete and turn in all missed assignments including classwork and homework. Please utilize the website to keep up with your work. Assignments are listed on this website in great detail so you should have no problems completing your missed assignments. You may get a handout from me upon your return to class if the assignment was a handout of some kind. Students will need to make up all tests, quizzes, and labs after school. This type of assignment must be made up within the approved three days for excused abscences also.
Remember; "Read, Read, Read! Study, Study, Study! Learn, Learn, Learn!
Please come to class PREPARED to learn! You MUST have all books, notebooks, notebook paper, several sharpened pencils (leave the mechanical pencils at home!), personal pencil sharpener, black or dark blue ink pens ONLY! SCHOOL IS YOUR JOB! BRING YOUR TOOLS!
In order to be a SUCCESS in this class, you must be Present, Punctual, Prepared, Positive, and Productive.
See you tomorrow!
Love you,
Mrs. Davis
