AACA Curriculum Map
2015-2016
Teacher: S. Merten Grade: Middle School 7 & 8 Content Area: SCIENCE SAFETY
Unit Title: Unit #1
SCIENCE PRACTICES:
Lab Safety & Expectations
Essential Questions
What overarching questions will guide exploration in this unit?
What questions will help students connect to a ‘Big Idea’?
How does your essential question connect to your assessments?
Learning Targets for Content:
What Students Should Know?
1)Vocabulary
2)Facts and Information
Learning Targets for Content:
What Students Should
Understand?
What broad topic will you cover? What major subcategories will you spend time on?
What major underlying concepts do you want students to understand by the end of the unit?
Learning Targets: Skills
What Students Should
Be Able to Do?
# of Instructional Days Needed: 1 week
Time frame (months/dates): SEPT / Trimester 1
What are proper safe laboratory practices before, during, and after a lab in science?
Safety in the Science Laboratory REVIEW (Module P/Ch 2.4)
- Science Classroom safety rules and procedures
- Location of safety equipment
- Safety symbol icons: meanings and precaution associated
Vocabulary: waft, dispense, eye wash, extinguish, lab-ware, apparatus,
Safety in the Science Laboratory (P/2.4)
-Explain why preparation is important when carrying out scientific investigations in the lab and field.
‘Preparation’ is the most important lab safety rule.
Students should only follow authorized procedures.
-Describe what you should do if an accident occurs.
Students should immediately inform teacher if an accident occurs.
Safety in the Science Laboratory (P/2.4)
- Follow written & verbal directions in lab/ investigation.
- Practice appropriate/safe behavior during lab investigations.
Common Core Standards to be Taught and Assessed
During Unit
Common Core Standards: Reading
RST.6-8.3 Follow precisely a multi-step process.
RST.6-8.4 Determine meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text
(figurative, connotative, and technical meanings. (vocab)
RST.6-8.7 Integrate information presented in different media or formats
(e.g. visually, quantitatively, as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
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AACA Curriculum Map
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Teacher: S. Merten Grade: Middle School 7 & 8 Content Area: SCIENCE SAFETY
What skills do students need to be successful in demonstrating mastery of the targets for learning? What processes should they be able to use well? What levels of thinking should they be able to engage in around content?
Assessments
Formative: What will you accept as evidence throughout the unit that students understand the content central to the unit as it is taught?
What types of opportunities will students have to practice applying new content or skills to continue development toward mastery?
When will descriptive feedback be given to students during the unit?
Summative: What product or performance will students produce to demonstrate mastery? Who is the audience for this assessment?
What assessment methods will be used to measure progress toward learning targets?
- Recognize & explain science classroom safety symbol icons & associated precautions.
- Location and use of lab safety equipment
Formative: 7 & 8 – Summer Bridge Safety packet & worksheet.
7 th Formative: Summer Bridge- Safety Test /review
Summer Bridge- Safety Test/ review
Can you follow directions?
Safety Equipment scavenger hunt, safety equip review
Pre-writing: Safety practices before, during, and after lab
8 th Formative:
What rules can you remember & why they are important?
Quiz
Safety Bingo- name icon picked & meaning
Safety Practice Expectations: Before, During, After Lab
Summative:
7 th Safety in the Science Laboratory R&R
Safety written test/rules + safety equipment location
Safety Icon poster – visual & application rule
Safety Quiz
Baking Soda Cannon Lab
8 th Safety-
Safety Review Worksheet
Safety Cartoon Quiz- ID safety violations
Safety Test (safety equipment locations, expected behavior, safety icons)
Written script of safety rule and reasoning (In your
Which standards are measured in these assessments?
NGSS- Sci & Engineer Practices
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AACA Curriculum Map
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Teacher: S. Merten Grade: Middle School 7 & 8 Content Area: SCIENCE SAFETY
Activities
What activities will students engage in to connect them to content?
What opportunities for practice will students use to help them progress toward learning targets?
How will activities be differentiated based on student needs, readiness levels, or interests?
Miscellaneous Notations
What specific materials or equipment are needed during this unit? opinion…Most important rule)
FA- 8 th Recall safety rules
Crash Course – Chem #21 Safety video clip (9:02 min)
Safety Article: Accidental Discover http://www.middleschoolchemistry.com/atomsworld/2012/06/accidentaldiscovery/
View Safety video –Identify 3 correct, 3 incorrect lab behaviors
Safety Scavenger Hunt (locate classroom safety equipment)
Safety Cartoon – find the errors
Safety Webquest – find info from lab accidents?
Safety Bingo (safety icons)
8- Develop middle school class safety rules expectations: Looks, Sounds,
Feels like
Lab Safety video- DVD (7 th )
Crash Course- Chem Safety #21
8 th - Text book Safety Rules Appendix
Review Worksheets/ scavenger hunt
Safety Comic copies
‘Loose in the Lab’ Baking Soda Cannon supplies: test tubes, stopper, baking soda, vinegar, toilet paper squares.
Arts Integration: 7 th Safety Icon Posters
Video Clips: Crash Course, Accidental Discovery
DVD- Lab Safety
Materials for this template are based on the work of Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Rick
Stiggins, and Carol Anne Tomlinson
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