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Chemistry PS1 1 Introduction to Matter
Chemical elements - atoms and molecules
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
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Periodic Table of WIS Elements around us--Washington International School
[Go to MORE (on right side of the top menu bar) to see EACH of the elements---by atomic number]
Students and staff at Washington International School discover LOTS of elements
Inquiry science
Online activty
NASA Spacecraft components: the Orion crew capsule on the Artemis spaceship. List the elements in the NASA Explore article - what are they used for? why was that element used? You can research the elements in compounds mentioned.
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 NASA spacecraft materials and reactivity of metals NASA JPL
Lab #4 Elements and You: Percentage of different elements in a meteorite, the Sun and a 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 Iron wool + oxygen reaction WIS
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 Poster: Research which elements produce which color “neon” lights 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
Intriguing uses for carbon atoms: graphene and white graphite NASA Technology Transfer
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
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 NASA
And monitoring carbon in the atmosphere from the ISS NASA
Antarctic Meteorites and Mars Smithsonian NMNH
The Cosmic Ice Laboratory – Interstellar molecules NASA Astrochemical Laboratory
Investigating combustion reactions in Space--here soot particles burning NASA PD
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
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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