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Overview
Students investigate the physical
and chemical properties of matter as they explore relationships
between mass, volume, density, and atomic structure.
Learning Expectations:
Understand the atomic nature of matter.
- Design and conduct scientific investigations.
- Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze,
and interpret data.
- Develop descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models
using evidence.
- Think critically and logically to make connections between
evidence and explanations.
- Communicate scientific procedures and explanations.
- Use mathematics in scientific inquiry.
- Understand that different kinds of questions suggest different
kinds of scientific investigations; current knowledge guides
scientific investigations; and mathematics and technology
are important scientific tools.
- Explain concepts about the structure of matter.
- Understand that scientific explanations emphasize evidence.
- Record and graph data concretely, pictorially, and symbolically
to discover relationships.
- Acquire the vocabulary associated with matter.
- Use scientific thinking processes to
conduct investigations and build explanations: observing,
communicating, organizing, relating and inferring.
- Work collaboratively and relate knowledge to new experiences.
- Understand science safety and follow safe practices.
Assessments:
- Lab experiments
- Performance assessments
- Reflective journals
- Teacher created assessments
- End of unit projects
- Rubrics
- Checklists
- Homework/Class work
- Teacher observations
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