AGBU Vatche & Tamar Manoukian High School
Two Week Schedule
Subject:
Chemistry
Date:
08/11/2014 - 08/2/2014
Instructor:
Joseph Robison
Standards:
Investigation & Experimentation 1.a., 1.b., 1.c., 1.d., 1.e., 1.f., 1.j., 1.l.
Chemistry 1.a., 1.b., 1.c., 1.d., 1.e. 1.j. 2.d.
Date
08/11/2014
08/12/2014
08/13/2014
08/14/2014
Objectives
We will:
-Introduce ourselves
- Discuss course syllabus and
expectations.
Students will :
-Make a plan on how succeed
in this class.
Students will :
-Define and recognize types
of Chemistry.
-To connect Chemistry to our
lives.
-Learn and see the process of
physical and chemical
changes
-Learn the steps of the
Scientific Method and apply
those steps in a simple
experiment
Activity / Classwork
Introduction to each
other/course.
Discuss syllabi.
Write plan on how I will succeed
Topics in Chemistry
Homework
Get syllabus signed and
returned. Take learning
style quiz online and
report results
Define/discuss Chemistry.
Student groups categorize areas
of Chemistry in groups w/
rationale. Discuss as group.
Discuss Pure vs Applied-slide
show
Discuss importance of Chemistry
and how it relates to each of us
by listing, discussion and
Newspaper search if time. If not
for homework.
Discuss physical and chemical
changes; discuss hypotheses
Lab Demo: Physical and Chemical
Changes
Students will :
Scientific Method dry Lab
Learn the process of
w/Guided preparation of formal
generating a formal lab report lab report.
Make sure every student
Demonstrate Lab Safety-Safety
understands Lab Safety
quiz
Newspaper search for
importance of Chemistry
to me.
Students will :
-Understand how Chemists
study the Universe.
-Review Ch. 1 in prep for Test
Finish Ch. 1 Study Guide
and Study for Test
Monday
Demo Spectroscopy
Explain testing
Do Ch. 1 Study Guide
Read Section 1.4 in text
Read/Do GRWS 1.4
08/17/2014
08/18/2014
08/19/2014
08/21/2014
08/22/2014
Students will:
- Demonstrate how much
they know-Take Exam
-Learn/Review Systemme
Internacional Units and
conversion
Students will:
-Learn to determine accurate
mass and volumes of various
objects using a small scale
balance;
-Learn the 3 temperature
scales and conversions
Take Ch. 1 Test
S.I. Unit and Conversion practice
problems
Finish conversion practice
problems, read section
2.1
Lab: Determining mass and
volume of simple objects.
Worksheet-Heat, Temperature,
Temperature Scales and
Temperature conversion
Answer Analysis and Your
Turn questions – no lab
report
Students will:
-Demonstrate how much they
know about S.I.-Metric
System
-distinguish between mass
and weight
-Convert units of temperature
between the 3 scales
Students will:
-Construct conversion factors
from equivalent
measurements
-solve problems by breaking
the problem into steps;
(dimensional unit analysis)
Understand the 4 states of
matter and the forces and
energy of Phase Change
Quiz on S.I.-Metric System
units/problems
Lab: Metric Conversion List SI
units of measurement and
common prefixes;
-distinguish between mass and
weight; convert between Celsius
and Kelvin scales
Construct conversion factors
from equivalent measurements;
solve problems by breaking the
problem into steps; convert
complex units using dimensional
unit analysis
Start-Phase change practice
Do Temperature
conversion Practice
Students will:
-Distinguish between types of
mixtures
-Define and Distinguish
between Elements and
Compounds.
-Begin learning Chemical
symbols
-Be introduced to the Periodic
Table of Elements
Demo- Separating Mixtures
Worksheet-practice on Elements,
Compounds and the Periodic
Table of Elements.
Finish-Phase change
practice