Mrs Marcello Science
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Today we started the day with a review of Metals, nonmetals and metalloids by completing our conclusion from last class. Then, I assigned the the students project for 1st quarter. It is a choice project, they can pick one of the project to complete. The students were given a hard copy, but here is a digital copy of the directions. Projects are due Monday October 16th (A day) and Tuesday October 17th (B Day). The goal for today is to introduce groups and periods on the periodic table. We took notes (page 17) on groups, periods, valence electrons, and reactivity. The students then used chrome books to watch four short videos on each of the groups on the periodic table. Here is the powerpoint for today's lesson. When using Discovery Education for this assignment, you do not need to be logged in to your rapid identity site. Just click on the link and type in your name. https://assignments.discoveryeducation.com/?cdPasscode=TE79E-44C0 Watch the 4 videos listed. Fill in the chart as you listen to the videos. For the 1st video watch the whole video. In the remaining 3 videos, you may stop the videos at 4 minutes, it is a repetition from the first video. IF YOU FINISH THE DISCOVERY ED ASSIGNMENT -click on the link for the Crash Course: Periodic Table video about Mendeleev and the history of the periodic table. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RRVV4Diomg When you are finished, click on the following link to take the quiz. https://docs.google.com/a/cms.k12.nc.us/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfLNCroce3HlwL9v178ZpH8KMuuduO5jhVUQuil5wo6tH31xA/viewform On page 17 in our notebook we colored a blank periodic table according to the names of the groups. Her is a picture of the periodic table that was the end product.
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Monday(A day) and Tuesday(B day)!!!! Thanks. For our warm up today, we used the COACH books to read a short passage on synthetic and natural elements. This assignment was completed on page 15 in our notebooks. If you were not here today, you need to swing by and borrow the COACH book to complete the assignment.
QUIZ today on Atoms and the periodic table. Grades should be loaded on Powerschools by the end of the day. We then reviewed the differences between metals, non metals and metalloids, We added notes to our vocabulary pyramids from last class. Here is the powerpoint on the metal notes. We finished the day with a lab. Students were able to touch some elements and make observations about the physical properties of the elements. Students then used what they know about the differences between metals and nonmetals to determine if the elements were metals or nonmetals. Still working on chemistry this week. Our warm up today is a review of drawing atoms and identifying the number of protons, electrons, and neutrons as well as a fun activity using the symbols of the elements. Thursday and Friday we will have a formal quiz that covers the atom. You must have your periodic table that day to use for the quiz. Next, we did a round robin around the room using the Atomic Structure Task Cards as a review of atomic structures. This assignment was on page 13 in your notebook. If you missed today, please make time during homeroom to come to my room to complete this assignment or here is a powerpoint of the assignment.
Lastly, we read a passage on metals, non metals and metalloids. Students created vocabulary pyramids (on page 14) for each of the vocabulary words and colored in a blank periodic table according to metals, non metals and metalloids. Here is the reading passage from today. - Read the passage - Complete the vocabulary pyramid - color in the periodic table 3 colors and make a key that indicates the metals, non metals and metalloids Lastly, homework tonight (if you have not completed it already) choose 6 atoms from the chart on the back of page 11 and draw the atoms. Please do it on a separate sheet of paper...this will be turned in next class.
Today we focused mainly on drawing atoms. If you were not here for the notes, you can find a copy here. After we practiced drawing atoms, each student created a model of one of the atoms on the periodic table. After completing the model, students worked on the handout Reading the Periodic Table on page 11 in our notebooks. If you lost your copy, here is the handout. Finish this assignment for homework!!! Our warm up today was a review of qualitative and quantitative observations and then we went straight into our quiz on Scientific Method.
Next, we started our first real unit of the year, CHEMISTRY. The students took notes on the parts of the atom. This should have been a review for the students since this was a topic they covered in 6th grade. If you missed the notes because you were absent, here is the Powerpoint. If you are ever absent please ask a peer for their notebooks to stay up to date. Our notebook is set up in the following way: Page 9 - Chemistry cover sheet Page 10 - Table of Contents Page 11 - Intro to the atom Page 12 - Atom Drawings Our warm up is one more opportunity to go over scientific method and qualitative and quantitative observations. We will have a quiz next class (Monday and Tuesday) that will cover scientific method and qualitative and quantitative observations.
Next we will be starting our first unit on Chemistry. We set up our notebooks for the unit and also took a pretest. The function of the pretest is to take a look at what you already know (and therefore topics I don't have to spend a lot of time on) and it will also show me growth from the beginning of the unit to the end of the unit. Title: CHEMISTRY ...9 Table of contents....10 Introduction to the Atom...11 Today we went over the scientific method in a couple of different ways. We reviewed it during warm up, and we practiced writing the parts of the scientific method using magazine advertisements. Students were expected to look at an ad, and design an experiment based on what the ad was trying to tell us. They needed to include the question they were trying to answer, the procedure, the independent variable, the dependent variable, control group, experimental group, and constants. We created posters of the "planned"experiment. Here are some of the students' work. Lastly, the students were given the Bart Simpson Handout to practice the Scientific Method. If you lost your copy...here is the handout you can print out.
Our warm up was a review of qualitative and quantitive observations. Qualitative observations is relating to, measuring, or measured by the quality of something rather than its quantity and quantitative is relating to, measuring, or measured by the quantity of something rather than its quality.
We took a quick quiz on mass and volume, grades should be in the grade book this afternoon. One last mini lab today using the balances and also as an intro to the scientific method. We tried to identify how much sugar is found in bubble gum! We were surprised to see how high the % of sugar turned out to be in the gum. Next we took notes on page 8 in our notebooks on Scientific Method. If you were absent, here are the notes from today's powerpoint. Safety Contracts were sent home today. Please return them next class, they need to be kept on file for the year. Thank you.
We also organized our notebooks today. If you were not here or did not have your notebook, here is the list of page numbers and what handouts should go on which page. •Tape the yellow brochure on the back of page 1 •Tape your textbook scavenger hunt on the front of page 2 •All About Me A-Z…back of page 2 •Tape Mass notes to the front of page 3 •Tape Volume Notes on page 4 •Tape Color Challenge to the back of page 4 Next, we took notes on observations and inferences on page 5 in our notebooks. Click here are the notes that should go on page 5. Finally we did a lab using unknown crystals. The purpose of this lab was to practice making qualitative and quantitative observations. Reminder : Quiz Friday/Monday on Mass and Volume - Reading the balances and the grad. cylinders -Know the units -Know the instruments -Know the definitions |
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