Learning Targets and Goals
- Can you identify different types of metric measurement tools?
- Can you use different tools for metric measurement skills correctly?
- Can you recall the metric units for each type of metric measurement?
- Can you explain the relationship between mass and volume in determining density?
- How will you describe and classify different types of matter by their chemical and physical properties?
- Can you explain how the states of matter change phases in relationship to the amount of heat energy present? Do you understand how to use the States of Matter – Phase Change graph to help you explain this relationship?
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- Can you identify and state the main Problem or Point of a demonstrated experiment?
- Which ideas will you come up with – Brainstorm- to try to solve the Problem?
Today in Class:
a. First, you referred back to your notes: “I See/Observe, I Wonder, I Infer” (you wrote this just as we started the Chemistry Unit. (we did this 3/9/23). Think about what you saw with the golf ball in the liquid in the tennis ball container!!!
b. Most students had partnered up before Spring Break. The Thursday before Break – most students received the STEM EDP Box Paper. You and your partner discussed what you thought the entire purpose of your experiment was- and you wrote the “State the Problem” in your EDP – Box Paper. (students who were absent did this today in class)
Students referred to the text – to review Chemistry concepts from before Break:
Unit 1, Less 3, Sect 1-6 and Pressure of Gasses and Predicting States of Matter: Unit 2, Less 4, Sect 5-6 …. to think about concepts that would be related to this lab.
c. You and your partner then Brainstormed and tried to think of any way you could repeat the experiment, and come up with similar results with the golf balls that were “up” and “down” in the tubes. ( NO- you were NOT able to go online and try to find out what someone else did… this is to be YOUR OWN ideas.) You should have listed 3+ brainstorming ideas per person, and then combined ideas with your partner. The ideas should involve materials, chemistry concepts and measurements that would help to explain this phenomenon.
d. Next you wrote a Claim in the IMAGINE section of the EDP Box Paper: a statement with your prediction, your hypothesis as to what would happen in YOUR experiment. Most students wrote this on the backside of the EDP – Box Paper.
e. Now you and your partner started to write the PLAN:
- You were to list all necessary Materials, with metric amounts
2. You started to write the Method: step-by-step directions, which included your Control and Independent Variable trials
Homework:
a. Bring necessary materials needed for the Golf Ball Lab by Wednesday.
b. HW Monday watch and review MythBusters Independent and Dependent Variables
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