Chemistry

Chemistry

Grade 7
Chemistry
Grade 7
 Science 7
This kit contains suggested ways to teach the Big Idea
in Chemistry.

Our world is made of atoms and compounds. The different ways

that they are combined make our world liveable. We can use
cooking as a way to explore atoms (pure substances) and compounds
(mixtures).

If we blend different things and apply changes in state (liquids,

solids, gas), or temperature, we can cook up chemical concoctions!
An electronic copy of this teacher guide can be found on Learn71:

https://portal.sd71.bc.ca/group/wyhzgr4/Pages/default.aspx

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 Suggested Ways to Weave Aboriginal Ways of Knowing within this unit:
Learning is experiential and place-based:
The curricular content and competencies of this science unit lend themselves to hands-on
experiments. We can use cooking as a way to explore atoms (pure substances) and
compounds (mixtures).
Recognizing the consequences of ones actions:
By combining atoms and observing how compound mixtures have reacted, we can use
cooking as a vehicle to teach cause and effect.

Learning involves generational roles and responsibilities:

Within this unit, the potential exists for cross-community and intergenerational projects.
Reach out to local chefs, or make plans to do some cooking experiments with the elder
residents living in retirement homes. They have lots of patience and kindness ready to offer
our students. Watch a win-win scenario unfold!

Learning Involves patience and time:

Offer students time to reflect on their science experiments and see what others have done.
This reflective stance provides the time needed for our most vulnerable students to learn
from their peers.
Learning is Embedded in Memory, History, and Story:
The periodic table is historic story of how we have organized our understanding of atoms.

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 Suggested Ways to Embed Assessment for Learning Strategies:

When we ask lots of questions, our students get curious and THEY do the work. The simple
act of asking questions has the massive potential of turning passive learners into actively,
engaged students. So ask lots of content related questions!

With each experiment done within this unit, post a learning intention. Educational research
clearly demonstrates the positive impact this has on our students.
When students are offered time to reflect after completing science experiments or even mid-
way through, they can see what others have done. This reflective stance provides the time
needed for our most vulnerable students to learn from their peers.

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 Suggested Ways to Engage Students in Science Inquiry:

A Need to Know Please consider launching this unit with a video from the following link:
https://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn/freeresources/chemistry-now/
cheeseburger-chemistry
A Driving Question How does understanding atoms and molecules impact our daily life? (Cooking
often involves mixing atoms and molecules e.g. sodium is an atom; salt is a

An Authentic Purpose By actively involving students in the chemistry of food preparation, they will see
how chemistry is part of their everyday world. Add a few, fun concoctions, and
new chemists will be born!

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Chemistry: Safety First!
When cooking, what safety precautions should be taken? (to avoid burns, cuts, etc.) Co-create
this concept with students. Once a complete list has been generated by students, ask, When
doing chemistry experiments, what similar kinds and other safety precautions should be
taken? To what extent is your classroom or school prepared for the kind of emergency you
might have when cooking or doing chemistry experiments?

1. Safety clothing (lab coats, gloves)

2. safety goggles

3. handling

4. responsible clean-up

5. emergency

My classroom: Safety Issues

Draw your classroom, identify safety exits, safety equipment and areas needing attention.

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Chemistry: Safety First!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr9YntO7V1U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N7fOYZYx2g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt8KKECwX-c

http://www.bioedonline.org/videos/content-
presentations/tools-and-techniques/science-safety-
in-elementary-schools/science-safety-scene/

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Chemistry: Safety First!

https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/about/
governance/committees/chemicalsafety/
safetypractices/safety-in-the-elementary-school-
science-classroom.pdf

http://www.nsta.org/docs/
SafetyInTheScienceClassroomLabAndField.pdf

http://mjksciteachingideas.com/safety.html

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 Suggested Websites:
Cheeseburger https://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn/freeresources/chemistry-now/
cheeseburger-chemistry
Chemistry
Atoms and Molecules Bill Nye video explaining atoms and Molecules
https://tune.pk/video/2901589/bill-nye-the-science-guy-atoms-and-molecules-
full-episode
And this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlSOESXQI7o Atoms and
Molecules -Basics -Animation lesson for kids is another good one to demystify
these concepts.
Once this video has been viewed, The book
Atoms and Molecules by My Science Library
will make a lot more sense to students!
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/molecule-shapes-basics

https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/build-a-molecule

https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/build-an-atom

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/grade6/E02/
E02.html
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/magic-crystal-snowflake/
Crystals
Average skill set:
http://sciencenotes.org/how-to-grow-crystals/

http://chemistry.about.com/od/growingcrystals/tp/Make-Crystals.htm

http://www.kidzworld.com/article/26598-make-your-own-crystals

Advanced:
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/
Chem_p082.shtml#background
http://www.nsta.org/main/news/stories/images/scope/0604/ChesbroFig3.jpg
Chemistry Journals
https://s-media-cache-
ak0.pinimg.com/736x/79/1a/6f/791a6f5719b241e88225a4dc7197fdac.jpg

http://mychemistryclass.net/notebook.html
http://www.classroomscience.org/taking-the-interactive-science-notebook-plunge

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004Z4E86E?
ref_=sr_1_1&qid=1406655680&sr=8-1&keywords=graph%20paper%20post-it%
20notes&pldnSite=1
http://chemagic.org/home/
Chemistry Magic
http://chemagic.org/home/
10 Year Old Chemist!

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Big Ideas: a suggested
lesson sequence

Although the Atoms and Molecules book is a simple one, it will

make a lot more sense to students and their abilities to
comprehend and connect to it, if they watch the Bill Nye the
Science Guy Video first. The concept of how small an atom is will
resonate far better having watched Bill slice a round of cheese in
half, then in half again, and again, and again. to make the point.
https://tune.pk/video/2901589/bill-nye-the-science-guy-atoms-
and-molecules-full-episode

And a second animated video about

the same concept is available at https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlSOESXQI7o

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 The concepts contained in the Atoms and Molecules book will resonate
even more after a hands-on experiment. By doing the following
experiment, students will learn first hand that molecules do not always
occupy the same space. Therefore, one + one does not always = two!

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Many students like to see the big picture before moving into the details. Within this science unit we want
students to understand that our world is made of atoms and compounds. The different ways that they are
combined make our world liveable. We can use cooking as a way to explore atoms (pure substances) and
compounds (mixtures).

If we blend different things and apply changes in state (liquids, solids, gas), or temperature, we can cook up
chemical concoctions!

What is chemistry anyway?

Because chemistry involves an investigation into the ways in which properties change, the first experiment
offered in Janice VanCleaves Step-By-Step Science Experiments in Chemistry, provides a nice launching point
for this unit. In this experiment, students will observe physical properties and their changes by cutting and
folding a recipe index card. When directions are followed, the index card changes its appearance quite
dramatically. This provides a great analogy for the possibilities of change when elements are combined.

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Continue engaging students in the content of this unit with the following video:

(Google Cheeseburger Chemistry) Cheeseburger Chemistry nbc and look for this link:
https://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn/freeresources/chemistry-now/cheeseburger-
chemistry

The first video on this webpage is called The Chemistry of Bread. In it, you will see how yeast
gobbles up chains of sugar molecules or complex carbohydrates to create a gluten matrix. As
bread is kneaded, the yeast is constantly fed new starch. Yeast is a living thing; a single-celled
creature that likes to eat carbohydrates /sugar. As the yeast consumes the starch, it produces
carbon dioxide as a by-product. This CO2 gas causes the bread to rise! So mix up this
chemical concoction, bake it, spread the butter, then eat your chemistry project!

And the following yeast-related chemistry experiment will be a natural next step.

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 Please check out Science Bob
https://sciencebob.com/blow-up-a-balloon-with-yeast/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoxY0z8ukUQ

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/ocr_gateway/chemical_resources/making_carsrev1.shtml

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmjrFcf-2Ww

Armed with this background knowledge regarding atoms and molecules, students are more than ready for
experiments using ice, salt , marbles and more from Robert Gardners book on Atoms and Molecule
Experiments.

These experiments tend to be more sophisticated. Your keen learners may want to take on some of these
experiments and share with the rest of the class.

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Continue to engage students with cool chemical reactions using the book, Super Cool Chemical Reaction
Activities with Max Axiom by Agnieszka Biskup. Experiments to consider:

1. Make Bubbling Blobs pgs. 5-6

2. Make cooling endothermic baggies pgs. 8-9
3. Explore exothermic reactions by making monster toothpaste! pgs. 10-11
4. Make a mini fire extinguisher pgs. 12-13
5. Make a see-through eggshell with an Eggcellent Eggsperiment pgs. 14-15
6. Make funny bones! pgs. 16 and 17
7. Just keep going... and change old pennies to new! pgs. 18 and 19.

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 Here are some fun things for
their teacher to do in front of
their students. (or with!) Most
of these experiments are fairly
quick and can be used to have
students predict the outcomes.
Its time to be Bill Nye the
Science Guy!

#1 Sour Candy Bubble Test 5 minutes pages 4-5

#2 Watery Stripes 5 minutes page 28

#3 Skittles Density Rainbow 1 hour page 40-41

#4 Squash the Unsinkable 5 minutes pages 54-55

#5 The Incredible Growing Gummi 2 hours pages 72-73

Worm 2 days

#6 Race to Dissolve (Big Vs. Small) 30 minutes pages 112-113

#7 Race to Dissolve (Hot Vs. Cold) 30 minutes pages 114-115

#8 Dissolving Gum 10 minutes page 119

#9 Dissolving Chocolate 10 minutes pages 120-121

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Class Project:

Each student is invited to select up to 4 elements and research them. Selection may be in a
draft each student picks one element from the first 30; another from the next 30 etc.
From there students will create a wall-size periodic table of elements with an illustrated
examples of their structure and uses.

Please see the Periodic Table of the Elements, In Pictures

@ http://elements.wlonk.com/Elements_Pics_11x8.5.pdf This will serve as an example of

this project.

This photo is from Pintrest:

https://www.pinterest.com/
pin/515451119826124971/.

http://jasonstark.com/wordpress/wp-content/
uploads/2012/07/2012-08-07_13-40-07_51.jpg

https://uwaterloo.ca/chem13news/sites/ca.chem13news/files/
resize/uploads/images/shawn-mcgovern-500x375.jpg
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This series of videos serves as an entry point to the big ideas of chemistry. It includes simple
analogies, activity suggestions, and demonstrations, that teachers can use to help student
investigate the chemical history of a candle.

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 Assessment Framework
Subject: Science Grade: 7
Strand: Chemistry

Unit
Elements I can name some of the different atoms in the periodic
Chemistry table.
(a pure substance I can describe different atoms (periodic table project)
consisting of a
single type of atom, I can organize different atoms using the periodic table
as distinguished by (periodic table project).
its atomic number
(eg., iron, copper)
Compounds I can state what a compound is.

(a pure substance I can contrast different elements.

consisting of two or
I can conduct experiments using different elements to
more atoms held
together in a defined make different compounds.
special arrangement By contrasting different elements, I can suggest a new
by chemical bonds compound.
(eg., water/salt))
Chemical Changes I can outline and record the steps in a chemical experiment.
I can hypothesize the outcome of an experiment.
(when atoms rearrange
into new products I can make observations as the experiments is happening.
accompanied by an
energy change (eg., I can use the above 3 steps to adapt and revise my
rusting, the reaction experiment (I can explain the safety issues related to my
of vinegar and baking experiment).
soda)
Crystalline Structure I can describe crystalline structures.
I can contrast different crystalline structures.
(crystals formed by a
unique arrangement of
atoms, ions, or I can conduct an experiment to build crystalline structures.
molecules (eg., rock
I can use the 3 steps above to adapt and revise my
candy, quartz,
snowflakes) experiment (I can explain the safety issues related to my
experiment).

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 Images by

Nelson Wesley
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Arden Elementary,

S.D. 71 (2016)

Coast Salish

Prince Rupert

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 An electronic copy of this teacher guide can be found on Learn71 at
https://portal.sd71.bc.ca/group/wyhzgr4/Pages/default.aspx
Contributors: Cheryl Adebar, Thea Black, Noah Burdett, Doug David, Kara Dawson, Colleen Devlin, Allan Douglas,
Gerald Fussell, Nora Harwijne, Sarah Heselgrave, Debra Lovett, Kim Marks, Gail Martingale, Dale Mellish, Heather Mercier,
Jane Rondow, Teri Ingram, Debbie Nelson, Joan Pearce, Stewart Savard, Laura Street, Lynn Swift, Carol Walters.

School District No. 71 (Comox Valley) grants permission for teachers to use these resources for educational purposes.

Published July 2016