My Science Box

Based on the website http//www.bigelow.org/edhab OverviewThis discussion begins with a review of how energy transfers through food webs and then engages students in assembling a food web with a small set ...

Day 1

Objective: Observe Chemical Change

Strategies: Inquiry and Reciprocal Teaching for Reading Comprehension

  Factors that Affect the Rate of a Chemical Reaction Big Idea Application During chemical processes matter can change forms. The overarching essential questions being considered What happens during a chemical reaction? The essential questions ...

  Conservation of Matter Big Idea Application During ordinary physical or chemical processes matter can neither be created nor destroyed.  It can only change forms. The overarching essential questions being considered What happens during ...

Observe Evidence of Chemical Reactions Big Idea Application During chemical processes matter can change forms. The overarching essential questions being considered What happens during a chemical reaction? The essential questions being considered How can you ...

California Science Content Standards

Grade 8

Standard 5: Chemical reactions are processes in which atoms are rearranged into different combinations of molecules.

Historical Perspective

Theoretical Overview

Given seven drawings depicting motion, students will be able to correctly identify, describe, and indicate direction and relative magnitude of three to five forces in each. Relationship to big idea Everything physical ...

Given a textbook passage on forces, students will be able to organize the passage's information into a graphic organizer and teach the information to other students. Relationship to big idea Everything physical ...