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Lesson Plans 3/17-3/30

Hi guys and girls!!
I am feeling a little bummed about missing out on our chemical equations and reactions units so I am letting you guys try and come up with a few experiments on your own with basic household items. You can use YouTube or ScienceBuddies.com or any website you can find that gives you some simple home experiment examples and see if you can (with the help of a parent) do this at home (think mentos in the coke bottle, baking soda and vinegar). Get everything together and maybe practice a time or two, then video your experiment and explain what is happening. This may take some researching about what the chemicals are, but use a periodic table to get the symbols and see if you can find a chemical equation that represents your experiment. You can email me with any questions, and I will have some guiding notes and help available to you in STEMscopes. Start and share a Google Doc with me about your experiment, trials, results and what you think is happening or happened.
Have fun and stay safe and healthy, I miss you all!

 

New STEMscopes assignments will be for 8.5D chemical formulas and 8.5E chemical reactions. Start each TEKS with the vocabulary, video, stemscopedia, PhET (game like activity), and lastly the quiz. I will continue to post in Google Classroom (Walls All) for interesting videos or websites that might help!

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Lesson Plans 2/24 – 2/28

Monday: Bell Ringer; Test data and scores from last week; Pre-Assessment Atoms (8.5A); TEKS breakdown 8.5A – the students will describe the structure of atoms, including the masses, electrical charges, and locations, of protons and neutrons in the nucleus and electrons in the electron cloud; Vocabulary – atom, nucleus, electron cloud, electrical charge, proton, neutron, electron, atomic mass, subatomic particles.

Tuesday: Bell Ringer; complete vocabulary, illustrate and describe the structure of an atom.

Wednesday: 8th graders to high school, HALF DAY – EARLY RELEASE!

Thursday: Bell Ringer; History of atoms and models of atoms text and video assignment.

Friday: QUIZ – describe the structure of an atom.