My Science Box

Based on the website http://www.bigelow.org/edhab

Overview
This 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 of ocean organisms.

Day 1

Objective: Observe Chemical Change

Strategies: Inquiry and Reciprocal Teaching for Reading Comprehension

Objective:  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?

Objective:  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 a chemical reaction?

Objective: 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:

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

Objective
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

Objective
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