Week of September 22, 2008-
S8P1b,d e. Distinguish between changes in matter as physical or chemical. (Chemical reactions produce a product. A material has characteristic properties.)
S8CS1-9 Focus is on investigating, collecting and analyzing data.
What is matter? What are the phases of matter? Chemical and Physical Properties
9/22/08 1. Students will take notes on matter
2. PowerPoint lesson on matter.
3. Students will construct a foldable of the four phases of matter. Due Wed.
9/23/08
1. The class discusses common materials and their uses.
2. Students explore some properties of common materials.
3. Students sort materials based on their properties.
4. The class discusses the results of the investigations and compares categories.
5. Students choose materials for several products
9/24/08
1. The class discusses the results of the investigation and compares categories. Non-metals and metals.
2. Students will finish activity 14 and do the analysis questions in their lab book.
3. Begin Activity 15, Reading.
9/25/08
Students compare physical and chemical properties of 13 elements and sort them
into groups based on common properties. They then compare their classifications
with groups—or families—of elements as defined by scientists and displayed in the
Periodic Table of the Elements.
1. Introduce elements as the building blocks of matter.
2. Students sort elements based on characteristic physical and
chemical properties.
1. Brief class discussion
about how students classified the elements. Allow
members of each group to briefly show their system
and describe the choices they made.
3. The Periodic Table of the Elements. Reading from text.
9/26/08
1. Review some of the properties used to categorize the elements: such physical properties as their color, whether they are metals or not, whether they are solid, liquid, or gas at room temperature; and such chemical properties
as their reactivity and the number of bonds they form with hydrogen.
2. Review, in Activity 15, “Families of Elements,” the fact that everything on earth is made of elements, either in pure form or in chemical combinations of the elements, which are called compounds. Also reiterate that all elements are made of smaller particles, or bits of matter. The smallest particle that is characteristic of an element is an atom.
3. Students will identify properties of the families of elements.
Some Favorite Links:
Science Games These games are on ecology, biomes, energy in food chains/webs/pyramids
Georgia Online Assessment unit tests based on CRCT practice questions. E-mail teacher if you forgot your number to login.
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