Brunswick High School
LFS Weekly Lesson Plan
Teacher: DuMortier,
Pascoe, and Watkins
Subject: Chemistry
Dates: Sept 5 to Sept 9,
2011
Unit Topic: The Structure of the Atom and
the Mole
Standard(s): SCSh8, SC1a, SC1b, SC3, SC2c
Prior to teaching: Review content from the previous week.
Monday
Essential Question
How are moles of a
substance converted
to atoms/molecules of
a substance?
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
How is the percent
composition of a
substance determined?
How is the molar mass
of a substance
determined?
How is the percent
compostion of a
substance determined
from it’s formula?
How are moles, molar
masses and avagadro’s
number related to each
others quantities?
How are mole
conversions carried
out? (Pascoe)
How are mole
conversions carried out?
(Pascoe)
What makes a change
or property physical or
chemical in nature?
(Watkins)
What makes a change or
property physical or
chemical in nature?
(Watkins)
How do isotopes differ
from each other?
(Pascoe)
How do isotopes differ
from each other?
(Pascoe)
How is accuracy
different from
precision? (Watkins)
How is accuracy
different from
precision? (Watkins)
How is the mole
concept used in
chemistry? (Pascoe)
What makes a change
or property physical or
chemical in nature?
(Watkins)
Activating/Acceleration:
(Some ideas: KWL, Pre-reading, Think Pair Share, Thinking Maps, Vocabulary Overview, Word Splash, Survey, Big Four)
Activator: Do-Now
(DuMortier and
Pascoe)
Activator: Copy down
Activator: Do-Now
Activator: Do-Now
(DuMortier and Pascoe) (DuMortier and
Pascoe)
Activator: Find a
Activator: Do-Now
(DuMortier and
Pascoe)
Activator: Group work:
Activator: Do-Now
(DuMortier and Pascoe)
Activator: Study and
Flashcard drill over the
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next 20 elements for
Friday’s Quiz
(Watkins)
partner across the room Activator: Went over
write out plan for lab to elements for the Elements
to compare answers for Sudoku answers and
be approved by
Quiz #3 (Watkins)
their metric conversions the Logic Problem
teacher prior to
worksheet from
answers with the
entering the lab
Monday. Check R.A.
students. (Watkins)
(Watkins)
as well. (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)
Activity: Finish video
on how to convert
from moles to grams
and vica versa
(DuMortier)
Worksheet on
isotopes (Pascoe)
Start Differentiated
Instruction many
topics from precision
vs. accuracy to metric
conversion review,
from solving logic
problems to
completing a Sudoku.
(Part done in the lab
and part done at the
tables in groups.)
(Watkins)
Activity: Lab Percent
Compostion of water in
popcorn (DuMortier)
Activity: Worksheet
Activity: Worksheet
Molar conversions
Mole Problems
(DuMortier - substitute) (DuMortier - substitute)
Activitiy: Molar Masses
Worksheets (DuMortier
–substitute)
Quiz: atomic structure
(Pascoe)
Mass to moles and
moles to mass
conversions (Pascoe)
Quiz: mole conversions
(Pascoe)
Lab: Making models of
different isotopes.
(Pascoe)
Finish the Differentiated
Instruction task
(Watkins)
Properties and
Changes notes
Properties/Changes
worksheet (Watkins)
Micro-Mixture
Separation Lab
discussion and
Hypothesis Creation
Activity (Watkins)
Mass to moles and
moles to mass
conversions (Pascoe)
Conversions: moles to
Micro-Mixture
number of atoms and
Separation Lab write-up number of atoms to
and execution (Watkins) moles (Pascoe)
Elements Quiz #3
Check Thursday’s
Reading Assignment
Continue working on
Micro-Mixture
Separation Lab Write-up
Collect Current Events
(Watkins)
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Summarizing Strategies: (Some ideas: Ticket Out the Door, 3-2-1, The Important Thing, One Word, Learning Logs)
Ticket – Complete
Lab Results (DuMortier) Worksheet answers
Worksheet answers
Worksheet answers
worksheet on Mole
(DuMortier)
(DuMortier)
(DuMortier)
Problems (DuMortier)
Assessment of lab
Ticket out the door:
Summary Review
Ticket out the door:
Ticket out the door:
performance (Pascoe)
review questions
(Pascoe)
review questions
review questions
(Pascoe)
(Pascoe)
(Pascoe)
Give out new Reading
Review the lab from
Assignment list for
Ticket out the Door:
today and a reminder
Answered questions
Go over the Reading
September and
“What is good and bad discussion about their
from the students
Assignment due the
October (Watkins)
about what I am
Current Events due the concerning their lab
next day! (Watkins)
wearing for a lab?”
next day (Watkins)
write-ups (Watkins)
(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)
Analyze the difference
between precision and
accuracy (Watkins)
Students evaluate
sources of error in data
for popcorn water
percentage (DuMortier)
Molar conversion
practice problems
(DuMortier & Pascoe)
Evaluate the
effectiveness of their
hypotheses in their labs
(Watkins)
Comparison of the set
up for different types of
conversions (Pascoe)
Inductive and deductive
reasoning with the
Sudoku and Logic
Problems (Watkins)
Assignment and/or Assessment: A variety of informal, performance, constructed response, selected response
Reading Assignment
Begin Lab Write Ups
Worksheets
Worksheets (DuMortier) Worksheets (DuMortier)
due on Tuesday.
(DuMortier)
(DuMortier)
(Watkins)
Reading Assignment
Current Event due on
Work on lab write-ups
due on Thursday
Friday (Watkins)
(Watkins)
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LFS Weekly Lesson Plan
(Watkins)
Differentiation:
Performance and
Performance and
Product task that is
Product task that is
done in any order that done in any order that
the groups choose or
the groups choose or
based on when they
based on when they
can do the lab portion. can do the lab portion.
(Watkins)
(Watkins )
Accommodations: (Sped, 504, SST)
Extra time for lab write
ups (DuMortier)
Groups come up with
their own plan of
action for the lab.
(Watkins)
Groups execute their
lab plan based on the
order that they chose.
(Watkins)
Extra Time for quizzes
(Pascoe)
Extra time to complete
the lab. (Watkins)
Groups will go into the
lab area and conduct
different tasks to
determine percent
compositions of
substances. (DuMortier)