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Series
8th Grade Chemistry
Lesson plans on chemical reactions.
Educator Curriculum
5E Lesson Plans
A detailed set of lesson plans covering chemical reactions that require students to use their knowledge to create a heating or cooling device.
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- The Self-Warming/Cooling Device – Objectives
- Lesson Plans for Chemistry Unit
- Lesson 1: Intro to Atom: What’s Inside?
- Lesson 2: Atomic Configuration: What do individual atoms look like?
- Lesson 3: Atomic Configuration — Building Atoms
- Lesson 4: Atoms forming molecular compounds
- Lesson 5: Molecular compounds and their properties
- Lesson 6: Physical vs. Chemical Changes
- Lesson 7: Chemical reactions: Investigating Temperature change as evidence
- Lesson 8: Conservation of Mass
- Lesson 9: Modeling atoms in molecular compounds (subscripts and coefficients)
- Lesson 10: Modeling a Balanced chemical reaction
- Lesson 11: Experiment with choice of chemicals to use in final project design (Focus is on amount of chemical to use)
- Lesson 12: Experiment with choice of chemicals to use in final project design (continued)
- Lesson 13: Design of self-warming/cooling device with use of exo/endothermic reactions
Chemistry: Overview
Standards and general overview for Chemistry lesson plans.
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