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Enduring Understandings:

  • The particles that make up an atom have mass, volume, a location, and a charge.

  • Chemical and physical properties of a substance enable us to identify matter and are similar within families of elements

  • The Periodic Table is arranged according to physical and chemical properties of elements.

  • Periodic trends can be observed going left to right in a period (row) and top to bottom in a group (column).

  • Elements on the periodic table to have real life value, products, applications, and uses.

  • Ÿ Models are used to think about concepts or processes that may be abstract, not easily observed, or potentially dangerous.

  • Ÿ Knowledge gained through scientific inquiry is tentative and open to revision.

 

 

Essential Question(s):

  • How can you utilize the Periodic Table effectively?

  • How can the Periodic Table contain a library of information for a scientist?

  • Why do we organize the elements into a periodic table?

  • Why is it important to understand the properties of different types of matter?

  • How can newly discovered elements be incorporated into the periodic table?

  • Where are the metals, nonmetals and metalloids located?

  • What are the periodic trends of elements?

  • What are the trends going down a column? What are the trends going left in a row?

  • How do the elements fit into your daily life?

  • ŸHow does society embrace science, ignore science, and fear science.

 
Standards:

 

NGSS

  • MS-PS1-1. Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures. 

  • MS-PS1-3. Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society.

  • MS-PS1-4. Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.

 

CCSS 
ELA/Literacy

  • RST.6-8.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to the precise details of explanations or descriptions.

  • RST.6-8.4 Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6–8 texts and topics.

  • RST.6-8.7 Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).

  • WHST.6-8.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.

 

Mathematics

  • MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

  • MP.4 Model with mathematics.

  • 6.RP.A.3 Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems.

  • 6.NS.C.5 Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, credits/debits, positive/negative electric charge); use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation.

  • 8.EE.A.3 Use numbers expressed in the form of a single digit times an integer power of 10 to estimate very large or very small quantities, and to express how many times as much one is than the other.

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