Brunswick High School
LFS Weekly Lesson Plan
Teacher: DuMortier,
Pascoe, and Watkins
Subject: Chemistry
Dates: Sept 26 to Sept 30,
2011
Unit Topic: The Structure of the Atom and
the Mole/Electron Configuration/Lineemission spectra
Standard(s): SCSh8, SC1a, SC1b, SC3, SC2c
Prior to teaching: Review content from the previous week.
Monday
Essential Question
How are valence
electrons found on the
Periodic Table?
(DuMortier)
How are the
electrons arranged
in the atom?
(Pascoe)
How does electron
behavior and
placement affect the
atom and its
properties?
(Watkins)
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Where are the
metalloids found on the
Periodic Table?
(DuMortier)
Where are the
transition metals found
on the Periodic Table?
(DuMortier)
What is the general
trend with ionization
energies of elements?
(DuMortier)
How is the Noble Gas
notation written for an
element? (Pascoe)
How are valence
electrons
determined?
(Pascoe)
What accounts for
the different lineemission spectra of
the elements?
(Pascoe and
Watkins)
How does electron
behavior and
placement affect the
atom and its
properties?
(Watkins)
What accounts for the
different line-emission
spectra of the
elements?
(Watkins)
Friday
(DuMortier)
What accounts for the
different line-emission
spectra of the
elements?
(Pascoe and Watkins)
Brunswick High School
LFS Weekly Lesson Plan
Activator: Do-Now
(DuMortier)
Short video about
the scientific
contributions to our
understanding of the
structure of the atom
Activator: Do-Now
(DuMortier and
Pascoe)
Activator: Do-Now
(DuMortier and
Pascoe)
Activator: Nothing
today due to testing.
(Watkins)
Activator:
Short video about the
scientific contributions
to our understanding
of the structure of the
atom. (Watkins)
Activator: Do-Now
(DuMortier)
Pre-Lab discussion
(Pascoe)
Activator: Pre-lab
activity in Mr.
Carpenter’s Room
(Watkins)
Activator: Do-Now
(DuMortier and Pascoe)
Activator: Turn in Current
Events and start review
sheet for later discussion
(Watkins)
Activator: Post-it with
the electron
configuration of Se
and Noble Gas
configuration of Cd.
(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: GPB video
402/403 Trends in the
Periodic
Table(DuMortier)
Light-emission
spectra and electron
configuration
(elements 1-18)
(Pascoe)
Finished powerpoint
Activity:. Nothing today
due to testing
(DuMortier)
Reviewed electron
configuration and
added more complex
combinations
(Pascoe)
Lost class time due
Writing Test; did review
Activity: Living Periodic Activity:. Game: What
Table(DuMortier)
Element Am I?
(DuMortier)
st
Catch up 1 block
due to Tuesday’s
Flame Test Lab and
writing test;
review content; lab
placement of
write-up will also be
Periodic Table and
completed (Pascoe)
how the s, p, d, and f
subshells work
Switching classrooms
(Pascoe)
with Mr. Carpenter to do
the Spectroscopy Lab
Activitiy: Operation
Periodic Table
(DuMortier)
Study Guide for this
chapter to prepare for
next week’s test over
content (Pascoe)
Help with Lab write-ups,
Brunswick High School
LFS Weekly Lesson Plan
on principles and laws work for those that
Stability pyramid,
(his room is much
that explain electron
were behind in class
valence electrons, and darker than my own!)
behavior as we know
4th block: caught up on
Lewis-dot diagrams;
(Watkins)
it; Noble gas
notes in the Media
then set-up for Flame
configuration and
Center using my
Testing lab to execute
orbital-filling diagrams teacher website
the six colored-flame
Worked to finish the
(Watkins)
tests. (Watkins)
Filling Atom lab writeup
(Watkins)
Summarizing Strategies: (Some ideas: Ticket Out the Door, 3-2-1, The Important Thing, One Word, Learning Logs)
Ticket – Completed
Ticket out the door:
Activity Worksheet
Game Answers
worksheets
review questions
summarizing trends
(DuMortier)
(DuMortier)
(Pascoe)
(DuMortier)
Ticket out the door:
Ticket out the door:
Discussed the rest of
Summarizer in
post-lab evaluation of
review questions
the week and the need Pascoe’s class
the results and
(Pascoe)
for good attendance for
unknowns (Pascoe)
the two labs on the next Ticket out the Door:
Went over the
two days. (Watkins)
Summarize the lab
Discussion about the
answers to the
activity (Watkins)
relationship between
worksheet (Watkins)
flame testing and
spectroscopy (Watkins)
review sheet with all
electron content on it,
prepare for quiz on
Monday over electron
configuration and Noble
Gas configuration
Collect Current Events
(Watkins)
Periodic Tables
designed by students
(DuMortier)
Ticket out the door:
summary of the
chapter to prepare for
upcoming test
(Pascoe)
Address any issues
regarding the set-up of
their notebooks, which
are due in one week
(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)
Brunswick High School
LFS Weekly Lesson Plan
Students must deduce Comparing the groups
Comparing flame
Comparing how
the next electron
of the Periodic Table
testing to spectroscopy frequency, energy, and
configurations for
and comparing the
and seeing the
wavelength vary based
other elements based different blocks (s vs. p,
relationship between
on the Electromagnetic
on the previous
d vs. f).
excited electrons and
Spectrum
pattern.
grounded electrons.
Assignment and/or Assessment: A variety of informal, performance, constructed response, selected response
Worksheet (DuMortier) Review for Test
Summarizing
Summarizing sentences
(Pascoe)
worksheet from activity
about set up of table
Worksheet (Pascoe)
(DuMortier)
Worksheet (Pascoe)
(DuMortier)
Check Reading
Reading Assignment
Assignment due the
due on Thursday and
Current Event due on
Worksheet (Pascoe
next day(Watkins)
work on the lab writeFriday (Watkins)
and Watkins)
ups (Watkins)
Differentiation:
Flexible grouping
(Pascoe)
Flexible grouping
(DuMortier)
Group lab work for
Flame Testing
(Watkins)
Accommodations: (Sped, 504, SST)
Extra Time for lab
write-ups (Pascoe
and Watkins)
Flexible grouping
(DuMortier)
Individual lab work for
Spectroscopy Lab
(Watkins)
Flexible grouping.
(DuMortier)
Brunswick High School
LFS Weekly Lesson Plan