Brunswick High School
LFS Weekly Lesson Plan
Teacher: DuMortier, Pascoe,
and Watkins
Dates: October 31 –
November 4, 2011
Unit Topic: Compounds and Reactions
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
How is empirical
formula calculated in
chemistry?
(DuMortier)
How are percent
composition and
empirical formula done in
chemistry?
(DuMortier)
Subject: Chemistry
Standard(s): SCSh8, SC1a, SC1b, SC3, SC2c, SC4
Prior to teaching: Review content from the previous week.
Monday
Essential Question
How is percent
composition calculated in
chemistry?
(DuMortier)
What is the difference
between the empirical
formula and the
molecular formula of a
compound?
(Pascoe)
How are formula mass
and molecular mass
calculated?
(Watkins)
Activating Strategies:
How is the empirical
formula of a
compound
determined?
(Pascoe)
How is the empirical
formula of a compound
determined?
(Pascoe)
How is percent
composition calculated
and used in chemistry?
(Watkins)
How is percent
composition calculated
and used in chemistry?
(Watkins)
Friday
How can percent
How can percent
composition be seen in a composition be seen in a
lab setting?
lab setting?
(DuMortier)
(DuMortier)
How are mole
conversions
performed? (Pascoe)
How are chemical
equations written?
(Pascoe)
What is the mole, and
how is it used in
calculations?
(Watkins)
What is the mole, and
how is it used in molar
calculations?
(Watkins)
Brunswick High School
LFS Weekly Lesson Plan
Activator: Do-Now
(DuMortier/Pascoe)
Activator: Do-Now
(DuMortier)
Reviewed the schedule
for the week and
reviewed concepts from
last Thursday due my
absence on Friday.
(Watkins)
Activator: Two practice
mass problems: one
was formula mass and
one was molecular
mass (Watkins)
Activator: Do-Now
(DuMortier/Pascoe)
Activator: Pretest
review (Pascoe)
Activator: Do-Now
(DuMortier/Pascoe)
Activator: A practice
percent composition
problem (Watkins)
Activator: Do-Now
(DuMortier)
Activator: Review molar
conversion problems.
Collect Current Events
(Watkins)
Activator: Review
problem with two
balancing equations and
one percent composition
problem (Watkins)
Cognitive Teaching Strategies: include time for distributed practice or summarizing
(Some ideas: Lecture/Question, Read/Discuss, TIMS, Hands on Activity, Thinking Map, Pictograph, Research, Vocabulary, Diagrams/Graphs, Comprehension)
Introduction to Percent
Composition
(DuMortier)
Calculating empirical
formula from a
compound’s
percentage
composition.
Identifying molecular
formulas. Pascoe)
Started notes on formula
mass and molecular
mass
Practice problems
Household products
Started empirical
formulas (DuMortier)
Chapter 7 quiz
Chapter 7 study Guide
(Pascoe)
Check Reading
Assignment.
Notes on percent
composition
Review formula and
molecular masses
(Watkins)
Practice doing percent
composition and
empirical formulas
(DuMortier)
Mole Conversions
Chapter 7 vocabulary
quiz
Chapter 7 study Guide
(Pascoe)
Ion Quiz Retake.
Start The Mole
powerpoint and introduce
the molar mass.
The Mole Dollar and
Lab activity: Determining
the percent composition
of different items,
especially Oreos.
(DuMortier)
Review Game
(DuMortier)
Writing chemical
equations.
(Pascoe)
Chapter 7 test
(Pascoe)
Check Reading
Assignment.
Start molar conversions.
Lots of practice.
(Watkins)
Continue molar
conversions, percent
composition, and mass
calculations.
Household products
Project research in the
media center.
(Watkins)
Brunswick High School
LFS Weekly Lesson Plan
Project research in the
media center.
(Watkins)
formula chart was also
shown.
(Watkins)
Summarizing Strategies: (Some ideas: Ticket Out the Door, 3-2-1, The Important Thing, One Word, Learning Logs)
Ticket –. (DuMortier)
Ticket (DuMortier)
Ticket (DuMortier)
Ticket (DuMortier)
Ticket out the door:
review questions
(Pascoe)
Ticket out the door:
review questions
(Pascoe)
Ticket out the door
(Pascoe)
Discussion about the
upcoming blood drive
and connecting it to the
mole and percentages
(Watkins)
Summarizer: Went over
the game (DuMortier)
Ticket out the door
(Pascoe)
Ticket out the Door:
Show me what their first
Review questions
(Watkins)
Show me what their first
researched compounds
(Watkins)
products’ compound
look like prior to logging
formulas look like prior to
out of the computer
completing the rest of the
(Watkins)
project at home (Watkins)
Extending/Refining Activity: This is for all students. After they acquire, then take them up a notch with thinking skills/writing prompts.
(Some ideas: Cause/Effect, Compare/Contrast, Write, Classify, Analyze, Evaluate, Inductive, Deductive)
Project research and
learning about the
different types of
compounds used in
everyday household
products (Watkins)
Assignment and/or Assessment: A variety of informal, performance, constructed response, selected response
Brunswick High School
LFS Weekly Lesson Plan
Household Product
Project (Watkins)
Reading Assignment
due (Watkins)
Chapter 7 test
(Pascoe)
Reading Assignment
due on Thursday.
Current Event due on
Friday (Watkins)
Study Guide for
upcoming test
(DuMortier)
Current Events
(Watkins)
Differentiation:
Flexible grouping for
review.
(Pascoe)
Flexible grouping.
(DuMortier)
Accommodations: (Sped, 504, SST)
Extended time for any
Extra time for quiz
necessary assignments (Pascoe)
(DuMortier, Pascoe, and
Watkins)
Extra time for quiz
(Pascoe)
Extra time for test
(Pascoe)