P2P Partnering to Progress 5th grade structure and transformation of matter July 2009 (Revised June 2010) Begin with the following probes: Comparing Cubes and Sugar Dissolving 1 Days 1 Big Idea: Objects may be sorted into groups based on the characteristic properties of the materials from which they are made. FP: What categories for sorting give us the most useful information? Learning Targets: I can sort a set of objects into categories. I can tell if a category for sorting is based on the material from which something is made. I can distinguish between sorting categories that represent characteristic properties versus non-characteristic properties. Word Bank: Object, use, material, property, characteristic property, noncharacteristic property, fair test Materials needed: buckets with many objects for sorting. These should include wooden, glass, plastic, and metal objects; objects with similar shape or size but different colors and materials (and Note that material and vice versa); objects with different uses but composition mean similar made of the same materials; and so forth, to things, but here we prefer the use of the term material. give students a broad choice of sorting rules. Discuss possible categories for sorting: what is meant by the following – properties, object, use, material? Whether you use one or the other, you should be consistent. For this discussion, consider any materials: earth materials or manufactured materials. In groups, do the sorting into property groups, being sure to state a clear rule for each sorting. Then share the rules with the class. Are some rules creating property groups that is true for all samples of a given material? List which these are, and brainstorm for others. Assessment: Did/learned debriefing. 2 Day 2: Big Idea: Objects may be sorted into groups based on the characteristic properties of the materials from which they are made. FP: What categories for sorting give us the most useful information? Learning Targets: I can sort a set of objects into categories. I can tell if a category for sorting is based on the material from which something is made. I can distinguish between sorting categories that represent characteristic properties versus non-characteristic properties. Activity: Teacher will show students a solid rubber ball and discuss a list of properties. Cut the ball in half and again list the properties of the halves. Continue cutting the ball into smaller sections and continue discussing the properties. Make a chart to list properties of each Rubber ball Half ball Pieces of ball Have students identify the properties that the samples have in common. Introduce these as characteristic properties (properties that are the same no matter what size the sample). Name the properties they don’t have in common (Non-characteristic properties). **Suggestion Vocabulary Frayer Model for Characteristic property** How could someone determine if a particular property was characteristic or not? Ask students to devise a fair test to tell if a property was characteristic, and discuss whether the test is fair – how can you tell? Students will conduct fair test using various materials (aluminum foil, foam cubes, card stock, clay, etc) to determine characteristic or non-characteristic properties. Assessment: Did/learned debriefing. 3 Day 3 Big Idea: Some properties are characteristic. FP: Testing whether a property is characteristic or not Learning Targets: I can test whether a property is characteristic. I can tell if a test is carried out fairly or not. Conductivity may be new, so will need to show how to measure using the conductivity testers. Also, discuss in a general way how to observe and measure solubility and boiling points. Word Bank: Conductivity, boiling point, solubility, color, clarity, fair test Materials needed: water, alcohol, Go temp, computer, salt, wood, plastic, aluminum each in small and larger samples, 250 mL beakers, hot plate, scale, conductivity tester List the following properties and make a data chart – weight, volume, boiling point, color, clarity, solubility, conductivity. Choose those properties that were listed before, then add the other properties as items to test. Ask again how to conduct fair tests, and write down student-generated rules for fair tests – include the need for different amounts of the materials to test. State that both liquids and solids will be tested. Students will do tests in groups, each group doing different tests, keeping track of their data, and recording it in their notebooks. While 3 groups are listed below, group size should be about 3 students, and so there might be several of each of the groups. The following liquid samples will be used: 20 mL, 50 mL, 100 mL of each of water and alcohol, small and large wooden spheres, small and large aluminum pieces, and small and large plastic pieces. Group 1: Determine weight, color, and clarity of each. Group 2: Determine volume and conductivity of each item, solid and liquid. Group 3: Determine whether 1 g of salt can dissolve into each of the liquids. Demo for whole class to observe (using projector): Determine boiling point of liquids only using the GoTemps with your computer. Do not boil the alcohol for more than several seconds, and cover the beaker with aluminum foil immediately after the demo, to keep the fumes from filling up the room. Also be sure there are no open flames around. Share observations with the class, and state whether the property is characteristic or not and the data supporting the claim. Assessment: Did/learned debriefing. 4 Day 4 Big Idea: Measure lines are ways to compare the amount of a measurement of different objects made of the same material. FP: Making a measure line Learning Targets: I can make a measure line and use it to compare various objects. I can make a set of rules and use them to make a good measure line. Word Bank: Measure line Materials needed: adding machine paper roll, cut into several 100 cm lengths, concept cartoon showing types of weight lines (some proper some not proper), 4 rocks with quite different masses, and labeled with their corresponding masses, 2 g, 5 g, 25 g, and 100 g. Four sets of 4 lightweight (e.g. cardboard) cutouts of dog biscuits, labeled as weighing 5 g, 10g, 20g, and 100g (16 biscuits total) with sticky tape on the back. Reprise of the Darwin the Dog activity from 4th grade Have the 4 rocks lined up side-by-side, equally spaced from lightest to heaviest, on a blank strip of adding machine paper. Point out to the students that the weights are all different. Ask: “Does this arrangement show how much heavier some rocks are than others?” “Could you think of a way to arrange them differently so that someone could tell, just by looking, which ones are closer or further apart in weight?” Ask a volunteer to spread the rocks along the blank strip to show how the weights of the materials actually compare. Ask whether students agree with the result. Do others have different suggestions? “Is there something that can make this job of spreading out the rocks a lot easier?” [Since the weights are known, you can use a line marked at intervals – a measure line – instead of a blank strip of paper.] Introduce the main question: What does a measure line show us about this set of objects? Explain that students will make their own measure lines so they can use them in later activities. But first, they will learn what makes a good weight line, and then they will apply this idea to other measurement types. Provide an example showing several types of weight lines using the concept cartoon. There are 5 characters: Darwin the dog, and four students. Darwin wants a weight line that will allow him to compare the weights of his four dog biscuits. The biscuits 5 weigh 5 g, 10 g, 20 g, and 100g. In the cartoon, the four students show Darwin their weight lines. Using volunteers, Have students place the biscuits on each of the weight lines on the cartoon. Students should discuss in their groups about what is good and what is problematic about each character’s weight line. Individually they should write responses to each character on the notebook page (Dear Darwin activity). After students finish with their responses, discuss the strengths of and problems with each weight line, in order to prepare a set of criteria for the best possible weight lines. Use the following dialog with the students: Would someone read to us what you wrote to Darwin about (student 1)’s weight line?” Are there other points you’d like to add? Etc. Then ask groups of students to develop a set of rules that would be followed to make good weight lines. Have students explain what makes a good weight line; how does a rule improve a weight line. Ask what would be a problem if a weight line did not follow that rule. Possible rules: Ask, besides weight lines, what other sort of measures could be used for comparing different objects. Have students discuss this in their groups, then share with the larger class. Marks should be evenly spaced and the distance between marks should represent the same amount of weight (or other measure.) The line should start at zero. The line end should have a value higher than the largest object. The line should show the information clearly (e.g. a line that is too short would not be effective. As students generate rules, write them on the board, then have them copy the best rules into their notebooks. Explain that they will use these rules when they develop their own measure lines in later activities. Assessment: Did/learned debriefing. 6 Day 5 Big ideas: Determine heaviness for size. Heaviness for size is called density. Density is a characteristic property. FP: How can heaviness for size be determined for a given material? Word bank: Heavy-for-size, density, characteristic property Learning targets: I can determine heaviness for size for a given material. I can show that heaviness for size is the same value for a given material no matter how much of it is present. Materials needed: marbles, cm cubes, Large tootsie roll, 6 adding machine strips (40 cm) per group, scales, water, 100 cc graduated cylinders Show how to make a table for the data, leaving the final two columns unnamed for now: Number of marbles 5 10 15 20 Weight of marbles Volume of marbles Each group should make the measurements: use the scales with a small dish to hold the marbles. Check they know how to tare the scale appropriately to determine the correct mass. They should use the graduated cylinder with water to determine volume by displacement, again check to be sure they know, for example, to gently add the marbles to the cylinder to keep water from splashing out. Explain how to use graduated cylinders to measure volume to remind students who may be unsure. Also should go over the idea and rules for measure lines. They will make both weight lines and volume lines from their data. Have the students collect the data first for the marbles only. Prepare measure lines for their data. On each line, they should indicate where 0, 5, 10, 15, and 20 marbles would be positioned. Have them place their mass and volume lines side-by-side, with the data lined up, and observe whether the data tracks well. In other words, they should recognize that the spacing between each data set is similar between the two measurements. 7 Assessment: Did/Learned: Debriefing 8 Day 6 Big ideas: Determine heaviness for size. Heaviness for size is called density. Density is a characteristic property. FP: How can heaviness for size be determined for a given material? Word bank: Heavy-for-size, density, characteristic property Learning targets: I can determine heaviness for size for a given material. I can show that heaviness for size is the same value for a given material no matter how much of it is present. Activity: Repeat this activity using the cm cubes. Repeat it exactly and have them compare measure lines as before. Have the students repeat this activity using the tootsie rolls. But here, they should cut the tootsie rolls us as follows: Cut the whole thing in half, then one of the halves cut in half, and one of those pieces should be cut in half – model this with a tootsie roll. In the end, there should be the following sizes: a half, a quarter, and an eighth. Then measure weight and volume on each of these three fragments. Again prepare measure lines for the data and see if it tracks well. Ask: which of the objects, the glass marbles, the cm cubes, or the tootsie rolls feel like they have the largest and smallest heaviness-for-size, based on their feel. Get answers from the students, and have them defend their feelings for this. Assessment: Did/Learned: Debriefing 9 Day 7: Big ideas: Determine heaviness for size. Heaviness for size is called density. Density is a characteristic property. FP: How can heaviness for size be determined for a given material? Word bank: Heavy-for-size, density, characteristic property Learning targets: I can determine heaviness for size for a given material. I can show that heaviness for size is the same value for a given material no matter how much of it is present. Add titles to the final two column for the data tables they have been creating: weightvolume and volumeweight. Using their calculators, they should carry out these operations for each of their data pairs for the marbles, the cm cubes, and the tootsie rolls. 1: Do the calculated ratios indicate whether this produces an additional property that could be considered characteristic? What evidence do you have for this? 2: Which operation is more consistent with the feeling of heaviness for size? Why is the other operation not as helpful? Say – dividing mass by volume is called density. This property of density corresponds to the feeling we get of heaviness for size. Share different objects, for example from a density set, with the students and have them tell which have greater and lesser heaviness for size, based on their sense by feeling them, and tell them they will measure their density in a subsequent activity. Assessment: Did/learned debriefing. 10 Day 8 Big Idea: All materials have density, and this allows us to tell whether they can sink or float in water. FP: What is the density of a variety of materials? How does density let us predict whether some materials float in water and others sink in water? Learning Targets: I can determine the density of a variety of solid materials. -This means I can determine an object’s weight and its volume by water displacement, and then I can calculate its density by dividing the weight by the volume. Word Bank: Density Materials needed: graduated cylinders and beakers large enough to measure the largest of the items listed below, scales, water, droppers, several objects, including some that float and some that sink in water, such as a variety of the density blocks, some metal hex nuts, density cylinders, iron bars, ice cubes, and other objects as available. Tell the students they will determine the density of several solid objects using water displacement and weight, then dividing weight by volume. Ask – some of these objects may float in water. What are some ways you could determine their volume using displacement? They should first get a sense of heaviness-for-size for each of the objects then determine their density. They should prepare a table listing each object, its weight, its volume, and then its calculated density. Ask – which of these objects float in water? How do their densities compare to those that sink in water? List on a table in front of the class data for a couple of objects from each category, and these will be used in the next session. Assessment: Did/learned debriefing. 11 Day 9 Big Ideas: Measuring liquid density and showing that things float because their density is less than the density of the fluid they are floating in. FP: Do liquids possess density? Why do some things float and others sink? Learning Targets: I can measure the density of a variety of liquids. I can predict whether something can sink or float in a specific liquid by comparing densities. Word Bank: Density Materials needed: the same tools as before, and in addition the following liquids: water, alcohol (ethyl alcohol or ethanol, use 95%), molasses or corn syrup, mineral oil, vinegar, coke, diet coke; objects to float, such as plastic and wood – choose such that some objects that sink in water (many plastics) will float in the molasses, and others (such as ice and some woods) will float in water, but sink in oil or alcohol. Ask: how we might measure the density of liquids such as water, and what differences might be needed? Why would the procedures need to be changed? Note that the simplest way to do density of these liquids would be to place the graduated cylinder onto a balance, tare it, add the liquid to test, and record the resultant mass and the volume from the cylinder, and there is no need for displacement. (Be sure they have a sense that only solids must use water displacement to determine volume). Set up a table as before for these liquids, record weight and volume, and have them calculate densities. Do any of the liquids float on water? Is their density consistent with what had been seen on the previous session with materials that float? Compare the densities of objects that float with the density of the liquid they are floating in. Compare the densities of objects that sink with the density of the liquid they sink in. In groups, students should write a rule that predicts in all cases whether a particular object will float in a particular liquid. Each group should share its rule with the whole class. Assessment: Did/learned debriefing. 12 Day10 Big Idea: Solutions are mixtures of two or more materials that may be separated into their component parts. FP: How can I tell that something is dissolving? How do different conditions such as temperature affect the rate of dissolving? Learning Targets: I can distinguish a pure substance from a mixture. I know that all solutions are mixtures. I can show that when something dissolves, it is still present in the solution and can be recovered through evaporation. I can describe how a change in temperature or particle size will affect the rate of dissolving. Word Bank: mixture, pure substance, dissolving, solubility, solution, conductivity Materials needed: 3-250 mL beakers, distilled water, plastic spoons, 3 small (1”) pieces of aluminum foil, salt, sugar, copper sulfate, 100 cc graduated cylinder, dropper First day: Direct students to do the following in small groups where they can observe closely and record observations in their notebooks (especially with the crystals at the top of the pile in the bottom of the beaker, and water immediately above the crystals). Remind students that tasting chemicals in any form during a laboratory investigation is strictly forbidden. Even though the chemicals may seem friendly to our bodies, it is always very possible some toxic materials accidentally got into them, so tasting would likely be harmful to you. Place 50 cc water into a 250 mL beaker. Add about 1 gram of sugar and without stirring examine the sugar at the bottom of the water for a minute. Read orally to the students while they are observing the mixture: Many of the materials in this unit have been pure substances: the distilled water you have been working with contains water only and nothing else. The alcohol you used is 95% pure, only because it is hard to make purer. The salt contains only salt and the sugar was only sugar. Objects composed of only one substance are termed pure substances, and are distinguished from mixtures, which contain two or more materials. At the beginning of this unit, you sorted materials into groups. Before you sorted, the variety of materials present indicated it was a mixture of all those 13 items. One thing scientists may do with a mixture is to separate it into all its component parts, using the properties of those parts to make it easier to separate it. The reason for such a separation is to make it easier to study one of the components without all the other materials present. In any case, it is often easy to separate a mixture, because the properties of each component are not changed by the presence of the other components. In other words, none of the characteristic properties is changed in a mixture. One type of mixture is a solution. In this activity, solutions will be investigated. While you were reading the above sections, the mixture of sugar and water were changing. Describe in your notebooks any changes to the mixture of sugar and water now compared to when you first looked at it. Now stir the mixture until all the sugar particles have disappeared, if they have not already done so. Describe what you see now. What are its state, its color, and its clarity? Can you easily tell the difference between this and pure water? Suggest a way to tell if it is the same or different from pure water. Suppose you would be allowed to taste it, what do you think it would taste like? This sort of mixture is called a solution. In a solution, there are several things to look for: 1. A solution is generally clear. 2. In a solution, some or all of the added particles will not be seen. 3. In a solution, you can see or measure some of the properties of the material that was added. 4. All solutions are mixtures, and there are ways to tell apart the different components of a solution by careful examination of the properties. 5. Solutions may be separated into their component parts. Set your beaker with the sugar-water, and again add 50 cc of water to a second beaker. Now obtain about 1 gram of copper sulfate. Before adding it, check what it looks like: specifically, what is its color? Now add this to the water, and stir until it seems to vanish. Now what color is the water? Which properties of the copper sulfate blended with the water? Are the properties of the copper sulfate present in the solution? Set this beaker aside for now. In the following activity, you will provide further evidence that the dissolving material is still present after it dissolves. Prepare a third beaker with 50 cc of water and about 1 g of salt. Stir until the salt dissolves and note the properties of this solution. 14 Using the dropper, place 2-3 drops of each solution into the middle of a piece of aluminum foil. Set the foil aside to let the water evaporate overnight. You should label the foil with the name of your group. Assessment: Did/Learned/Debriefing 15 Day 11: Big Idea: Solutions are mixtures of two or more materials that may be separated into their component parts. FP: How can I tell that something is dissolving? How do different conditions such as temperature affect the rate of dissolving? Learning Targets: I can distinguish a pure substance from a mixture. I know that all solutions are mixtures. I can show that when something dissolves, it is still present in the solution and can be recovered through evaporation. I can describe how a change in temperature or particle size will affect the rate of dissolving. Students begin by observing the piece of aluminum foil which was set aside from the previous day. Observations will be recorded in notebook and will be discussed orally. Activity: The rate of dissolving is influenced by several factors: size of the particles dissolving, whether the solution is in motion or not (for example by stirring or swirling), and by the temperature of the solution. In the next activity, each group will first design fair tests to determine what factors influence the rate of dissolving, and then your group will try one of these tests for yourselves. Depending on the size of the class, there may be more than one of each of the following groups. 3 students per group is the recommended size. Group 1: Particle size Group 2: Temperature Group 3: Solution in motion Share the procedures you developed for a fair test with the whole class, and then explain the conclusion you made from your results. In other words, what evidence did you use to support your conclusion? Assessment: Did/learned debriefing. 16 Day 12 Big Idea: Dissolving is not the same as melting. FP: What is the difference between dissolving and melting? Learning Targets: I can compare dissolving and melting. I can tell what is similar and what is different about each. Word Bank: melting, mixtures, pure substances, solutions Materials needed: distilled water, 2-250 mL beakers, sugar, ice (made from distilled water), 100 cc graduated cylinder, 2 1” square pieces of aluminum foil. In both dissolving and melting, simple observation suggests the same thing is taking place, but is it? In this investigation, you will look at some similarities and differences between the two. Place 2-3 small ice chunks into a beaker with about 50 mL of water and observe what takes place as the ice melts into the water. Of what is the ice composed? Of what is the liquid composed? Is the final product (the fully melted liquid) a mixture or a pure substance? Place a spoonful of sugar into a second beaker with about 50 mL of water and observe what takes place as the sugar dissolves into the water. Of what is the final product (the liquid in the beaker) composed? Is it a mixture or a pure substance? Can the solution of sugar and water be separated from each other? Can the water the ice melted into be separated from the melted ice? Defend your answers based on your explorations in this unit. Test your ideas by placing a few drops of each into the middle of separate pieces of aluminum foil. Be sure the foil is labeled! Allow to evaporate overnight, and then check the next day. Record your observations. Describe one way melting is different from dissolving, and one way they are the same, based on this exercise. Assessment: Did/learned debriefing. 17 Day 13 (may take 2 days) Big Idea: Substances can be identified using characteristic properties. FP: How can the characteristic properties of the materials in an object be used to identify the materials? Learning Target: I can identify an unknown material by using characteristic properties. Word Bank: Forensic investigation Materials needed: 1-qt containers with 500 mL each of distilled water, molasses or corn syrup, 95% ethyl alcohol (ethanol), mineral oil or vegetable oil, vinegar, salt water (dissolve 50 g into 500 mL distilled water), and a 1-qt container with one of the liquids marked as “unknown,” scale, 100 cc graduated cylinder, conductivity tester, aluminum foil Teacher will incorporate a review here that includes characteristic properties and how they are used in the real world setting. (e.g., forensic investigations, CSI, etc.) Give Students a Miranda’s Doll handout (see attached page) and go over story with them, not giving them any hints. Remind students that tasting chemicals in any form during a laboratory investigation is strictly forbidden. Even though the chemicals may seem friendly to our bodies, it is always very possible some toxic materials accidentally got into them, so tasting would likely be harmful to you. Miranda has a favorite doll. She keeps it in a small crib in her room, but one day she noticed that the doll was missing! It had been under a baby blanket, and there was still a bump where the doll had been, but now the bump under the blanket was made by a bag filled with a strange liquid to make it about the same size as the doll. She suspected one of her brothers was being mean to her, but she has 6 brothers, so it would be hard to tell which one was the culprit. She called on a group of her friends to help. She explained the situation to them and they suggested they explore the brothers’ rooms to see what they can find out. They waited until each boy was gone, and went into the rooms and collected some items. They found the following items in their rooms: Brother Aaron Bill Charles Dave Edmond Fritz Materials in room Partly empty jug of water Partly empty jug of molasses Partly empty jug of alcohol Partly empty jug of vinegar Partly empty jug of olive oil Partly empty jug of salt water 18 Miranda’s friend Nancy asked why would anyone have a jug of molasses, and Ophelia asked why, for that matter, would anyone have a jug of oil, but Miranda simply responded that her brothers were really weird and this is the sort of thing they do. Petunia suggested that probably the guilty brother just used the liquid in his room to disguise the crime, and that they should compare the properties of the liquid in the crib to small samples of liquids from the rooms. Quinsi asked whether they should test all of the liquids in the jugs and not just samples, but Roberta said that the only properties that can help identify the evil brother would be characteristic properties, and these do not depend on how much they used. The other girls all agreed, so each set out to a different room to quietly collect small amounts of the liquids for testing. The friends need some help in deciding what to do next. Your group has been called in as a consulting team to help them design tests to determine which liquid was in the crib. You then need to carry out tests to determine the make-up of the unknown. (Give students supplies to carry out their tests) What is your conclusion? What reasons do you have for your conclusion? What should you do next? Have whole-class discussion about forensic examination of objects to determine the make-up of them. Assessment: Did/learned debriefing. 19 Name:_________________________________________Date:_______________________ Miranda’s Doll Miranda has a favorite doll. She keeps it in a small crib in her room, but one day she noticed that the doll was missing! It had been under a baby blanket, and there was still a bump where the doll had been, but now the bump under the blanket was made by a bag filled with a strange liquid to make it about the same size as the doll. She suspected one of her brothers was being mean to her, but she has 6 brothers, so it would be hard to tell which one was the culprit. She called on a group of her friends to help. She explained the situation to them and they suggested they explore the brothers’ rooms to see what they can find out. They waited until each boy was gone, and went into the rooms and collected some items. They found the following items in their rooms: Brother Aaron Bill Charles Dave Edmond Fritz Materials in room Partly empty jug of water Partly empty jug of molasses Partly empty jug of alcohol Partly empty jug of vinegar Partly empty jug of olive oil Partly empty jug of salt water Miranda’s friend Nancy asked why would anyone have a jug of molasses, and Ophelia asked why, for that matter, would anyone have a jug of oil, but Miranda simply responded that her brothers were really weird and this is the sort of thing they do. Petunia suggested that probably the guilty brother just used the liquid in his room to disguise the crime, and that they should compare the properties of the liquid in the crib to small samples of liquids from the rooms. Quinsi asked whether they should test all of the liquids in the jugs and not just samples, but Roberta said that the only properties that can help identify the evil brother would be characteristic properties, and these do not depend on how much they used. The other girls all agreed, so each set out to a different room to quietly collect small amounts of the liquids for testing. The friends need some help in deciding what to do next. Your group has been called in as a consulting team to help them design tests to determine which liquid was in the crib. You then need to carry out tests to determine the make-up of the unknown. What is your conclusion? What reasons do you have for your conclusion? What should you do next? 20 21