Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 3 continued

Learning Objective: Students will learn about sedimentary rocks by analyzing and interpreting samples in writing using technical words lithification, erosion, compaction, cementation, composition, deposition.


Questions:

  1. What makes sedimentary rocks different from one another? (brain or book)
  2. What makes sedimentary rocks different from metamorphic rocks? Be specific. (book or brain)
  3. Which is not a sediment transporting agent?

Answer Choices for number 3:
 
  • A. Stream water
  • B. Windstorms
  • C. Stratification
  • D. Glacial ice

Chemistry Unit 3 TST Lab Day

Learning objective: Students will learn about thermodynamics by conducting a lab and will analyze and interpret the data in writing using a graphic organizer, specific evidence, and technical vocabulary (exothermic reactions, enthalpy, spontaneous reactions, entropy, endothermic reactions, activation energy).

Questions:


  1. Pick up a lab sheet from Ms Friedrich.
  2. Watch the following video preview of the lab we will be doing today in class:
  3. Complete the procedures section of your lab handout by setting up four steps for the lab.

Monday, May 9, 2016

Physical Science Unit 3 TST day

Learning Objective: Students will demonstrate learning about change during chemical reactions by synthesizing their ideas in writing using graphic organizer, claim-evidence-reasoning, and technical vocabulary: law of conservation of mass, reactants, products.

Questions:

  1. How does the law of conservation of mass relate to change?
  2. How do chemical reactions cause change?

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 3

Learning Objective: Students will learn about sedimentary rocks by analyzing and interpreting samples in writing using technical words lithification, erosion, compaction, cementation, composition, deposition.

Questions:

  1. How does sedimentary rock form? (book)
  2. What is lithification? (book)
  3. What is the first step of the lithification process?

Answer Choices for number 3:
  • A. Cementation
  • B. Compaction
  • C. Recrystallization
  • D. Evaporation

Chemistry Unit 3 CST day

Learning Objective: Students will demonstrate learning about energy transfer on the CST using the words spontaneous, enthalpy, entropy, endothermic reaction, exothermic reaction, activiation energy.


Questions:

  1. What sticks with you most from unit 3?
  2. List 2 things you learned about chemical reactions from unit 3.

Which reaction would cause a decrease in entropy?

Answer Choices for number 3:
 
  • A. 2NH3(g N2(g) + 3H2(g)
  • B. 2NOCl(g 2NO(g) + Cl2(g)
  • C. CO(g) + 3H2(g CH4(g) + H2O(g)
  • D. 2CCl4(g) + O2(g 2COCl2(g) + 2Cl2(g)

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 3

Learning Objective: Students will learn about the processand cycle of rock formation by doing a lab and will analyze and interpret data and use models to produce evidence in writing using technical and academic words (metamorphic, igneous, sedimentary, foliated, composition, texture, pressure, temperature).


Questions:

  1. What makes some metamorphic rocks different than others? (brain)
  2. Why do you think colorado has so many metamorphic rocks? (brain)
  3. Grain size of metamorphic rock increases in the process of _____.
Answer Choices for number 3:
 
  • A. lithification
  • B. compaction
  • C. foliation
  • D. recrystallization

Chemistry Unit 3 Day 5

Learning Objective: Students will learn about heat transfer during chemical reactions by conducting a lab and will analyze and interpret their data in writing using technical vocabulary (endothermic reactions, energy transfer, heat transfer, thermodynamics, reactants, products) and science ideas (processes, cause and effect)

Questions:

  1. What does it take to make a spontaneous reaction? Be specific!
  2. What are some examples of ways humans use exothermic reactions to produce energy?
  3. How is enthalpy related to the spontaneity of a reaction?

Link for Lab TST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo2DEOWopU8

Answer choices for number 3:

  • A. H > 0 contributes to spontaneity.
  • B. H < 0 contributes to spontaneity.
  • C. H = 0 contributes to spontaneity.
  • D. H does not affect spontaneity.

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Physical Science Unit 3 CST Day



Questions:

  1. What stuck with you most from unit 3 learning? 
  2. What technical words are most familiar to you after unit 3?
  3. If you had to explain the law of conservation of mass to a classmate what would you tell them?

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 2

Learning Objective: Students will learn about the process and cycle of rock formation by doing a lab and will analyze and interpret data and use models to produce evidence in writing using technical and academic words (metamorphic, igneous, sedimentary, foliated, composition, texture, pressure, temperature).

Questions:

  1. How are metamorphic rocks formed? List at least 3 ways. (book)
  2. What are some characteristics of metamorphic rocks? (book or brain)
  3. Which is a metamorphic process?

Answer Choices for number 3:
  • A. Erosion
  • B. Directed pressure
  • C. Melting
  • D. Lithification

Chemistry Unit 3 Day 4

Learning Objective: Students will learn about heat transfer during chemical reactions by conducting a lab and will analyze and interpret their data in writing using technical vocabulary (endothermic reactions, energy transfer, heat transfer, thermodynamics, reactants, products) and science ideas (processes, cause and effect)

Questions:

  1. What is an exothermic reaction?
  2. How are exothermic and endothermic reactions different? 
  3. Which statement describes the potential energy diagram of an exothermic reaction?

Answer Choices for number 3:
  • A. The potential energy of the products is equal to the potential energy of the reactants.
  • B. The potential energy of the products is greater than the potential energy of the reactants.
  • C. The potential energy of the reactants is greater than the potential energy of the products.
  • D. The activation energy of the reactants is greater than the activation energy of the products.

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Physical Science Unit 3 Lab Day 5



Learning Objective: Students will learn about changes of chemical reactions 

and will hypothesizeanalyze, and interpret in writing using technical 


vocabulary (reactantsproductsmoleculesatoms, changes, cause and effect, law of 


conservation of mass, coefficients, pH).
Questions:

  1. What is the difference between a double replacement and a single replacement reaction? (book/brain)
  2. What are the products of combustion reactions (book/brain)
  3. What demonstrates the law of conservation of mass in a chemical reaction?

Answer choices for number 3:
  • A. Atoms rearrange.
  • B. Atoms change into other atoms.
  • C. Matter is formed.
  • D. Matter is destroyed.

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 1 continued

Learning Objective: Students will learn about the physical changes that happen on Earth by watching a video and doing an online interactive and will summarize their learning in writing using technical vocabulary: plate tectonics, heat, pressure, igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary, weathering, geology

Questions:

  1. What is your opinion about rock formation? (brain)
  2. How do rocks change? (book or brain)
  3. All silicate minerals contain the elements _____.


Answer Choices for number 3:
  • A. carbon and silicon
  • B. silicon and oxygen
  • C. carbon and three oxygen atoms
  • D. sulfur and four oxygen atoms

Chemistry Unit 3 Day 3

Learning Objective: Students will learn about heat transfer during chemical reactions by conducting a lab and will analyze and interpret their data in writing using technical vocabulary (endothermic reactions, energy transfer, heat transfer, thermodynamics, reactants, products) and science ideas (processes, cause and effect)

Questions:

  1. What would you tell a classmate about spontaneous reactions? (brain)
  2. What is an endothermic reaction? (book)
  3. Which of the following best describes H2(g) + Cl2(g 2HCl(g), H = -184.6 kJ/mol?


Answer Choices for number 3:
 
  • A. The reaction requires heat.
  • B. The reaction produces heat.
  • C. The reaction is endothermic.
  • D. The reaction has no activation energy.