Lesson 1 - Monday, Sep 25 - Dr. M absent
Focus Question: What happens when a bath bomb is added to water (and what causes it/that to happen)?
What We Did: Working with a Guest Teacher, students were asked to read sections of the Activate Science 1 (AS1) textbook and answer questions about concepts that should eventually help us answer our focus and unit questions with greater accuracy and precision. All answers needed to be written in students’ science notebooks. This activity included the following assignments…
2.1 – Elements, pp. 76-77
2.2 – Atoms, pp. 78-79
2.3 – Compounds, pp. 80-81
2.4 – Chemical Formulae, pp. 82-83
C1 – Chapter 2 Summary, pp. 84-85
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Lesson 2 - Tuesday, Sep 26 - Dr. M absent
Focus Question: What happens when a bath bomb is added to water (and what causes it/that to happen)?
What We Did: Students had the entire class period to continue working on the assignments outlined in the Lesson 1 plan (see above).
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Lesson 3 - Wednesday, Sep 27 - Dr. M absent
Focus Question: What happens when a bath bomb is added to water (and what causes it/that to happen)?
What We Did: Students had a good portion of the class period to continue working on the assignments outlined in the Lesson 1 plans (see above). During this lesson, however, the Guest Teacher also showed students how to photograph the work they did in their science notebook for “2.1 – Elements,” transform the photograph into a PDF in Notability, format the PDF document (e.g., resize the photograph), export the PDF document to Google Drive, and then upload the PDF document to the Google Science Classroom as an “Assignment.”
To help guide students during this process, Dr. M put a step-by-step guide in the Google Science Classroom for students to follow.
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Lesson 4 - Friday, Sep 29 - Dr. M absent
Focus Question: What happens when a bath bomb is added to water (and what causes it/that to happen)?
What We Did: Students again had the entire class period to continue working on the assignments outlined in the plans outlined above. Any students managing to complete the required assignments were given the opportunity to work on some additional topics:
3.1 – Chemical Reactions, pp. 86-87
3.2 – Word Equations, pp. 88-89
3.3 – Burning Fuels, pp. 90-91
3.4 – Thermal Decomposition, pp. 92-93
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Announcements...
The DRIVING QUESTION of our current unit is: How can we make something new that was not there before?
#1 - Students can probably expect to see their Interim Effort grades in Veracross on Thursday or Friday.
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