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Chemistry PS1 1 Introduction to Matter
Chemical elements - atoms and molecules

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Project Zero THINKING ROUTINES--see below

Phenomenon--how do you know a reaction has taken place?

Thermite reaction with cannonballs video WIS Science

What do you know before you see this source?  How does it add to your knowledge?
What do you still need to know?

Thermite cannonballs explained WIS Science

Prior Knowledge/Preview
Naming Chemicals    Writing Formulas  Writing Equations
STEMonstrations Physical and Chemical Changes NASA
Review for changes of state WIS
Aluminum and iodine reaction WIS
REVIEW topics with Al and I2 WIS

Periodic Table of AEROSPACE

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Periodic Table of WIS Elements around us--Washington International School

[Go to MORE (on the top menu bar) to see EACH of the elements---by atomic number]

Students and staff at Washington International School discover LOTS of elements

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Inquiry science
      Online activty
     GEMINI space capsule elemental activity NASA
    
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LAB activities  follow all safety guidelines linked above
and in the activity
Lab #1 Organization of the Period Table Video and Task card links
Lab #2 Magnesium + oxygen reaction and REVIEW WIS  
Lab #3 Investigating metal reactivity WIS and looking at oxides
Lab #4 What is your cosmic connection to the elements? Activity Page 17 “What’s out there?” {% of element simulation in meteorite, the Sun, Human body, etc.) NASA Imagine the Universe
Lab #5 Metal, non--metal, metalloid investigation instructions and RESULTS video for data collection and lab analysis WIS
Lab #6 Fe wool + oxygen reaction WIS

      
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EXTENSION material for the curious
- investigating the materials in space capsules and the Space Shuttle
Why does NASA study soft matter in Space? (foams, gels, liquid crystals) NASA Explore
Webb (telescope) finds a plethora of carbon molecules around young star (C2H6, C2H4, C3H4, and methyl radical, CH3.  NASA Explore

Atomic Light Show:Smithsonian Institution 

Webb (telescope) makes first detection of crucial carbon molecule (writes it as an ion: CH3+) NASA Explore

Key building block for organic molecules discovered in meteorites NASA Explore ​

PS1 1 Graphene The Next Wonder Material American Chemical Society

Destructive distillation of coal video CLEAPSS

Decomposition of hydrogen peroxide: Elephant's Toothpaste Washington International School

NASA Astrophysics (summary of research – including matter) NASA Science

Quantum sensing via Matter-Wave interferometry Aboard the International Space Station (Bose-Einstein condensates can exist longer and colder) NASA Explore

HS-PS1-1 Matter and its Interactions

Use the periodic table as a model to predict the relative properties of elements based on the patterns of electrons in the outermost energy level of atoms.

--including reactivity of metals, types and numbers of bonds formed , reaction with oxygen for main group elements
Performance Expectation
 

Aerospace CONNECTIONS:
Applications and examples
The Cosmic Ice Laboratory – Interstellar molecules NASA Astrochemical Laboratory
New evidence our neighborhood in Space is stuffed with hydrogen atoms (finding H atoms where the edge of the Solar System meets the interstellar space) NASA Explore
Matter in Space NASA Cosmicopia
Periodic Table of AEROSPACE
See Applications and Examples  Materials used in aerospace--compounds with different bond types in air and space artifacts

Monitoring CO Atmospheric research including CO NASA

Antarctic Meteorites and Mars Smithsonian NMNH

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Investigating combustion reactions in Space--here soot particles burning  NASA PD

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Mars Perseverance rover will include the MOXIE cube-seen gold here-to investigate making oxygen on Mars: MOXIE cube CO2 --> O2 NASA PD

THINKING ROUTINE

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Choose one element from the first 20 elements in Periodic Table  #1--note its adjacent elements and position

 

Choose ONE of the other Periodic Table images on the right and below and look for the same element.--answer the following questions relating to the element's neighbors and position compared to Periodic Table #1

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What do you see?

What do you think about that?

What does it make you wonder?

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#1

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#2

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#4

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#3

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#5

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#6

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#7

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#8

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