MATTER: PROPERTIES AND CHANGE
PSc.2.1 Understand types, properties, and structure of matter.
Time
15
days
State Competency Goal
Learning Activity
Student will be able to:
And Objective
Teacher will
Introduce
Demonstrate or skills
PSc.2.1.1 Classify matter as:
homogeneous or
heterogeneous; pure
substance or mixture;
element or compound;
metals, nonmetals, or
metalloids; solution, colloid,
or suspension.
PSc.2.1.2 Explain the phases
of matter and the physical
changes that matter
undergoes.
PSc.2.1.3 Compare physical
and chemical properties of
various types of matter.
PSc.2.1.4 Interpret the data
presented in the Bohr model
diagrams and dot diagrams
for atoms and ions of
elements 1 through 18.
1. How matter is
homogeneous or
heterogeneous.
2. How matter can
be an element,
mixture or
compound using
the number of
elements or the
chemical formula.
3. How an element
can be a metal,
nonmetal, or
metalloid.
4. How sets of
matter can be a
solution, colloid or
suspension based
on their
properties.
5. How and why
solids, liquids, and
gases form.
6. The differences
between melting,
1. Describe the
differences between
homogeneous and
heterogeneous matter.
2. Classify matter as
element, mixture, or
compound.
3. Identify metals,
nonmetals, and
metalloids.
4. Determine the
difference between
solutions, colloids, and
suspensions.
5. Explain how solids,
liquids and gases form.
6. Explain the changes
in phases.
7. Explain the difference
between evaporation
and vaporization.
8. Review solutions as
homogeneous.
9. Explain the formation
of solutions.
Resources
Assessments
Incorporating
Literacy skills
-Two column
notes
-Bill Nye videos
-water lab
-ice cream lab
-m&m isotope
lab
-atom lab
-periodic table
activity
-Tasty solution
lab
-SAS in school
-solubility curves
--matter
demonstrations
-solution
activities
-density lab
-density
problems
-element project
-water lab
-m&m isotope lab
-atom lab
-density lab
-Tasty solution
lab
-element project
-density problems
-Demonstrations
-SAS in school lab
-atom quiz
-periodic table
quiz
-solution quiz
-Matter quiz
-Periodic table
activities and
problems
- solution
activities
-Two column
notes
-Water lab
-atom lab
-Density lab
-Tasty solution
lab
-Element
project
-SAS in school
lab
Demonstrations
vaporization,
condensation, and
freezing.
7. The difference
between
evaporation and
vaporization.
8. The review of
solutions as
homogeneous.
9. How solutions
form with solute
and solvent.
10. How to
interpret solubility
curves.
11. How to explain
a solution as
saturated,
unsaturated, or
supersaturated,
dilute or
concentrated.
12. How to
calculate density.
13. How to identify
physical
properties.
14. How to identify
physical and
chemical
properties of
elements,
mixtures and
10. Interpret solubility
curves.
11. Explain the
differences between
saturated, unsaturated,
and supersaturated
solutions.
12. Explain the
difference between
dilute and concentrated
solutions.
13. Calculate density
problems.
14. Identify physical and
chemical properties of
matter.
15. Determine the
charge, mass and
location of all
subatomic particles.
16. Determine the
number and mass of
each subatomic particle
in each element.
17. Determine the
isotopes of each
element.
18. Write the isotopic
notation for elements.
19. Construct a Bohr
model of elements
hydrogen through
argon.
20. Construct a dot
compounds.
15. The charge,
mass and locations
of protons,
neutrons and
electrons.
16. How the
number and mass
of subatomic
particles can be
determined.
17. How to
determine the
isotopes of
elements.
18. How to write
isotopic notation.
19. The Bohr
model of the
atom.
20. How to create
Bohr models of
elements
hydrogen through
argon.
21. How to
construct dot
diagrams.
diagram of elements.