Students are to complete their study guide on carbon compounds that entails their comprehension of what an organic compound is versus an inorganic compound, be able to identify the four functional groups and explain their general functions, distinguish between a condensation and hydrolysis reactions as well as elaborate upon the energy currency of life: ATP!
Student will reinforce the dimensional analysis process by practicing on using converting factors that are based on the SI base units.
Moreover, students will learn how to use the scientific notation approach to convert numbers that can be expressed or written as a coefficient between 1 and 10 multiplied by 10 raised to a power.
We will verify the Frayer’s models of the concepts and ideas that the students should have completed at home. Then we will distinguish between organic and inorganic compound and the importance of carbon bonding in biological molecules. Students will learn to identify the four functional groups of these molecules, and how they influence the synthesis or hydrolysis of large carbon molecules. Furthermore, we will examine how the break down of ATP (the energy currency of life) provides the necessary energy to carry out our metabolic activities.
Students will practice on reading various lab equipment and understand how these tools are calibrated. Furthermore, students will use these read metric values to convert them to other units in the metric system as a reinforcement of our classwork for the past several sessions.
Students will explore the biomolecules of life by elaborating upon them in terms of their explanations, examples, and their essential characteristics through the application of the Frayer Model. Furthermore, students will apply the think-pair-share strategy with another classmate.
Students will determine the density of a regular and an irregular small objects. They will proceed based upon our method of practice in class of determining the mass of the object as well as its volume ( regular: LXWXH; irregular: water displacement). Then student will simply divide the mass of the object by its volume to calculate its density.
Students will be evaluated upon the characteristics of living things, the scientific method, and the major functions of the three types of microscopes, namely, light compound microscope, scanning electron microscope, and transmission electron microscope.
Students will apply the strategy of two facts and a fib to review the main concepts and ideas that we have studied about the basic life activities, scientific method, and the components and functions of the compound light microscope. Furthermore, the teacher will do a brief question and answer about the material as a final review of the subject matter on Chapter 1.
Students are to complete pages 16-18 in their Science Notebook as a preparation for their activity on calculating density of small objects.
Students will practice on six different small objects to determine the mass and the volume of each object, and then derive the density of each object that is based upon its mass and volume.
Note that the volume of objects can have regular or irregular shapes. If the object has a regular shape, find the length, width, and height/depth/thickness and multiply these three values together. If the object has an irregular volume (one of these three variables is missing), then use the water displacement method to determine how much of the water is displaced by the object. Then subtract the original volume from the new volume of water to get the volume of the object. Once the volume and the mass of the object ( “weighing” it on a scale for its mass) are determined, then divide the mass of the object by its volume to figure out the value of its density.
Students will learn and reinforce units and measurements that include time, length, mass, volume, and kinds of temperature. Furthermore, students will engage in understanding how certain derived units are reached such as Kelvin temperature and density.
