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Competency
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Activities
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Assessment |
| 1. Demonstrate
how the Periodic Table can be used to predict properties of elements
and determine trends in these properties as they relate to the physical
world. |
- Understanding Vocabulary
- Lab: Properties of the Periodic Table
- Worksheets: How the Periodic Table is organized
- Video: Reactivity of Alakai Metals
- "Home Connection": What elements are
found in your home?
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- MC (Multiple Choice) and CR (Constructed Response)
Test
- PE (Performance Event): Analyze the properties
of elements from a lab
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| 2. Describe
the molecular, atomic and ionic makeup of a variety of substances
using approprate formulas and explain how the arrangements and motion
of molecules determine a variety of biological, chemical and physical
phenomenon. |
- Understanding Vocabulary
- Internet site for Introduction
- Worksheets: Comparing elements, compounds &
mixtures
- Lab: "A Cereal Experience"
- Lab: "Flame Tests"
- Lab: "Covalent vs Ionic Bonds"
- Concept Map on Bonding
- "Home Connection": What elements/compounds/mixtures
are found in your home?
- Video: "Types of Bonding"
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- MC Test
- PE- Conclude the identity of an unknown element
on the basis of lab data
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| 3. Analyze
and discuss the types and concentration of solute or solvent that
affect the rate of solubility, acidity or viscosity of the solution. |
- Understanding Vocabulary
- Internet- Indroduction Worksheets on types of
solutions and solubility
- Lab: Determining Acidity
- Lab: Using a Solubility to Solve a Murder Mystery
- "Home Connection": What solutions
are in your home?
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- MC Test
- CR- Determine whether a mixture is a solution,
colloid or suspension
- PE- Determine the pH of an unknown solution
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| 4. Describe
the components of the modern model of an atom and how they are related. |
- Understanding Vocabulary
- Internet- Introduction
- Video: "Inside the Atom"
- Activity: "Counting Atoms"
- Chart: "Subatomic Particles"
- Science Teaser: Mystery Guests
- Lab: Balloons and Electron Charges
- Home Connection
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- CR Test
- PE- Conclusions from balloon electron lab
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| 5. Describe
how energy is involved in chemical, physical and nuclear changes. |
- Understanding Vocabulary
- Internet- Introduction
- Worksheet: Compare and contrast nuclear and
chemical energy
- Activity: Conservation of Matter
- Lab: Domino chain reaction
- "Home Connection": Identify the types
of energy at home
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- MC Test
- PE- Determine the age of a 'specimen' using
a model of radioactive decay.
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| 6. Predict
and explain phase changes as determined by the amount of heat required
to change the temperature or state of a substance. |
- Understanding Vocabulary
- Internet- Introduction
- Worksheets: How are Heat and Temperature Different?
- Video: "Molecules in Motion"
- Interpret graphing of phase changes
- Worksheet: "What is a calorie?"
- Activity: "How much does a cup of hot water
cost?"
- Activity: "Calories: Knowing Your Nutrition"
- Lab: Temperature changes vs Mass of water heated
- Lab: Predicting the Temperature Change
- Lab: Specific Heat of Metal
- "Home Connection": Cost of energy
for your home
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- MC & CR Test
- PE- Identify an unknown substance based on specific heat data.
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| 7. Distinguish
the direction of thermal energy in natural processes such as air flow
and ocean currents and investigate the relationship between heat and
work. |
- Understanding Vocabulary
- Internet- Introduction
- Diagrams: Predicting the direction of heat flow
through matter
- Reading: "Thermal Pollution"
- Lab: "What material will transfer the most
heat?"
- Lab: "Measuring the freezing and melting
points"
- Graphic: The Greenhouse Effect
- Activity: "Convection"
- Lab: "What color is your spaceship?"
- Lab: "Using water to tap into solar energy"
- "Home Connection": Does the cost of
solar panels make sense at home?
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- MC & CR Test
- PE- Evaluate the choices of building materials based on their
ability to prevent heat flow based on lab data.
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