Brownsboro High School
Essential Standards Chart
What do we expect students to learn?Team / Chemistry / Year / 16-17
Description of Standard / Example of Rigor / Prerequisite Skills / When Taught? / Common Assessment(s) / Extension Standards
What is the essential standard to be learned? Describe in student-friendly vocabulary. / What does proficient student work look like? Provide an example and/or description. / What prior knowledge, skills, and/or vocabulary are needed for a student to master this standard? / When will this standard be taught? / What assessments will be used to measure student mastery / What will we do when students have already learned this standard?
1. How and when to use units and convert quantities. / Students always include correct units without prompting and use dimensional analysis to do conversions. / - Manipulate equations.
- Use measuring tools such as meter sticks, scales, and graduated cylinders.
- Able to multiply fractions. / Week 1-2 – 1st 9 Weeks (introduction and bulk of instruction); however, it will be assessed in each 9 weeks. / - Common formative assessment will be incorporated seamlessly into unit tests.
- CBA will serve as common summative assessment. / - Opportunity for peer tutoring and extra credit.
- Labs and activities.
- Computer-based learning activities.
2. Describe matter and how it can change either physically or chemically. / Students know that matter is anything that has mass and takes up space (even “invisible” matter like gases) and can identify a change as physical or chemical based on its description. / - Know the phases of matter. / Week 3-5 – 1st 9 Weeks / - Common formative assessment will be incorporated seamlessly into unit tests.
- CBA will serve as common summative assessment. / - Opportunity for peer tutoring and extra credit.
- Density lab for higher level students.
- Critical thinking questions on matter.
3. How to read the Periodic Table and describe general properties of families. / - Student can identify atomic number, atomic mass, and symbol, and use that information to determine number of protons, neutrons, and electrons.
- Can identify and describe the properties of metals, non-metals, metalloids, and noble gases in terms of valence electrons. / - Horizontal = period, vertical = group; groups of elements have similar properties. / Week 6-7 – 1st 9 Weeks / - Common formative assessment will be incorporated seamlessly into unit tests.
- Periodic Table mosaic project.
- CBA will serve as common summative assessment. / - Opportunity for peer tutoring and extra credit.
- Labs and activities.
- Computer-based learning activities.
- Extra time for project.
- Extra information added to periodic table project.
4. What atoms are made of and how they are arranged. / - Build a 3D model of an atom with correct placement of protons, neutrons, and electrons. / Know the charge and placement of protons, neutrons, and electrons, and know how many electrons are allowed in each orbital. / Week 5 – 1st 9 Weeks / - Common formative assessment will be incorporated seamlessly into unit tests.
- Atomic model project.
- CBA will serve as common summative assessment. / - Opportunity for peer tutoring and extra credit.
- Labs and activities.
- Computer-based learning activities.
- Extra time for project.
- Extra information added to atomic model project.
5. Different kinds of compounds and basic naming trends. / - Identify ionic and covalent compounds and name binary examples of each. / Identify metals and nonmetals based on their placement on the periodic table, and whether they gain, lose, or share electrons to become stable. / Week 9-13 – 2nd 9 Weeks / - Common formative assessment will be incorporated seamlessly into unit tests.
- Tug-o-war bonding lab and lab report.
- CBA will serve as common summative assessment. / - Opportunity for peer tutoring and extra credit.
- Labs and activities.
- Computer-based learning activities.
6. 1 mole = 6.02x10^23 = atomic mass in grams / - Describe a mole in terms of quantity and mass and convert between mass, moles, and number of particles. / Convert quantities using dimensional analysis; multiplication of fractions; canceling out of units that are present in both numerator and denominator; find the atomic mass on the Periodic Table; scientific notation; enter scientific notation on calculators. / Week 14-17 – 2nd/3rd 9 Weeks / - Common formative assessment will be incorporated seamlessly into unit tests.
- CBA will serve as common summative assessment. / - Opportunity for peer tutoring and extra credit.
- Labs and activities.
- Computer-based learning activities.
7. Mass is conserved in nature and how to balance general equations. / - Show that mass is conserved using math and by balancing equations. / Elements are combined to make compounds that cannot be altered physically, i.e. subscripts in a compound cannot be changed; which side is reactants and which is products. / Week 18-20 – 3rd 9 Weeks / - Common formative assessment will be incorporated seamlessly into unit tests.
- Balancing equations lab and lab report.
- CBA will serve as common summative assessment. / - Opportunity for peer tutoring and extra credit.
- Labs and activities.
- Extra opportunities to use Play-Doh to build molecules and more detailed lab reports.
- Computer-based learning activities.
8. Relate molar quantities of reactants and products. / - Predict or calculate an unknown number of moles of product or reactant based on mole ratio from balanced equation. / Balance a chemical equation; convert between mass and moles using dimensional analysis; know what a mole is. / Week 21-23 – 3rd 9 Weeks / - Common formative assessment will be incorporated seamlessly into unit tests.
- Smores lab and lab report.
- CBA will serve as common summative assessment. / - Opportunity for peer tutoring and extra credit.
- Labs and activities.
- More detailed lab reports.
- Computer-based learning activities.
9. How pressure, volume, and temperature changes affect gases. / - Explain and/or calculate relationships between pressure, volume, and temperature using gas laws. / Units for pressure, volume, and temperature; definition of pressure and volume; able to convert to Kelvin from Celsius. / Week 24-26 – 3rd 9 Weeks / - Common formative assessment will be incorporated seamlessly into unit tests.
- CBA will serve as common summative assessment. / - Opportunity for peer tutoring and extra credit.
- Labs and activities.
- More detailed lab reports.
- Computer-based learning activities.
10. Describe simple solutions and the function of water as a solvent. / - Identify solutions as unsaturated, saturated, or supersaturated.
- Describe the structure and function of water.
- Predict solubility. / - Atomic/molecular structure
- Identify metals and nonmetals and their bonding properties
- Identify ionic and covalent compounds
- Describe bonding principles / Week 27-29 – 3rd 9 Weeks / - Common formative assessment will be incorporated seamlessly into unit tests.
- CBA will serve as common summative assessment.
- Ice cream lab / - Grow a crystal garden.
- Create a supersaturated solution.
- Make rock candy.
11. General traits of acids and bases and the pH scale / - Describe characteristics of acids and bases and show where acids and bases are located on the pH scale. / Vocabulary: sour, bitter, slippery; definition of pH scale. / Week 30-33 – 4th 9 Weeks / - Common formative assessment will be incorporated seamlessly into unit tests.
- Household acids and bases lab and lab report.
- CBA will serve as common summative assessment. / - Opportunity for peer tutoring and extra credit.
- Labs and activities.
- More detailed lab reports.
- Computer-based learning activities.
12. Energy is conserved, heat transfer, and energy flow in reactions. / - Identify reactions as endothermic and exothermic based on energy diagrams. / Vocabulary: energy, heat, temperature, reaction, system. Energy can be transferred. / Week 34-35 – 4th 9 Weeks / - Common formative assessment will be incorporated seamlessly into unit tests.
- CBA will serve as common summative assessment.
- Heat of Doritos lab / - Opportunity for peer tutoring and extra credit.
- Design a cold pack.
- More detailed lab reports.
- Computer-based learning activities.