Student Outcomes
- The student will be able to recognize that matter is anything that has mass and takes up space.
- The student will be able to conclude that an object’s physical properties remain constant and can be used to identify it.
- The student will be able to identify melting and boiling points as constant temperatures at which substances change state.
- The student will be able to identify an atom and its major parts (subatomic particles).
- The student will be able to recognize how the elements are grouped in the periodic table.
- The student will be able to describe what a chemical formula reveals about a molecules.
- The student will be able to compare and classify matter according to its physical state.
- The student will be able to distinguish the difference between a physical change and a chemical change.
- The student will be able to differentiate between the different ways physical properties can be measured and explain the difference between each type of measurement.
- The student will be able to extend the unit concepts with interactive investigations based on the learned material.
NYS Learning Standards
Information Literacy
Standard #1: Inquire, think critically and gain knowledge.
Performance Indicators:
- 1.1.6 Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format (e.g., textual, visual, media, digital) in order to make inferences and gather meaning.
- 1.1.2 Use prior and background knowledge as context for new learning.
Standard 2: Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge.
Performance Indicators:
· 2.1.1 Continue an inquiry-based research process by applying critical-thinking skills (analysis, synthesis, evaluation, organization) to information and knowledge in order to construct new understandings, draw conclusions, and create new knowledge.
· 2.1.3 Use strategies to draw conclusions from information and apply knowledge to curricular areas, real-world situations, and further investigations.
· 2.4.3 Recognize new knowledge and understanding.
· 2.4.4 Develop directions for future investigations.
Standard 4: Pursue personal and aesthetic growth.
Performance Indicators:
· 4.1.4 Seek information for personal learning in a variety of formats and genres.
· 4.3.2 Recognize that resources are created for a variety of purposes.
Science
Standard 4: Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.
Performance Indicators:
- Explain the properties of materials in terms of the arrangement and properties of the atoms that compose them
- Use atomic and molecular models to explain common chemical reactions
- Explain variations in wave length and frequency in terms of the source of the vibrations that produce them, e.g., molecules, electrons, and nuclear particles
- Use kinetic molecular theory to explain rates of reactions and the relationships among temperature, pressure, and volume of a substance
- Compare energy relationships within an atom's nucleus to those outside the nucleus
Technology
Standard 5: Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.
Performance Indicators:
· Locate and utilize a range of printed, electronic, and human information resources to obtain ideas
Information Systems
Standard 2: Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies.
Performance Indicators:
· Utilize electronic networks to share information
· Demonstrate ability to evaluate information
· Demonstrate ability to evaluate information critically
· Use a variety of equipment and software packages to enter, process, display, and communicate information in different forms using text, tables, pictures, and sound
· Access needed information from printed media, electronic data bases, and community resources
ELA
Standard 1: Language for Information and Understanding- Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and understanding. As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas; discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.
Performance Indicators:
· Interpret and analyze complex informational texts and presentations, including technical manuals, professional journals, newspaper and broadcast editorials, electronic networks, political speeches and debates, and primary source material in their subject area courses
· Gather and interpret information from children's reference books, magazines, textbooks, electronic bulletin boards, audio and media presentations, oral interviews, and from such forms as charts, graphs, maps, and diagrams
· Select information appropriate to the purpose of their investigation and relate ideas from one text to another
· Interpret and analyze information from textbooks and nonfiction books for young adults, as well as reference materials, audio and media presentations, oral interviews, graphs, charts, diagrams, and electronic data bases intended for a general audience