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Unit 5: Product Chemistry

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Table of Contents

Here is the Table of Contents (ToC).
If you are ABSENT, look at the ToC to see if pages have been added. You are responsible for keeping your notebook up to date. Left-hand pages are ones that are student-thinking and this must be your own work. Right-hand pages are group or teacher-directed and can be photocopied using the class photocopier. 

Table of Contents for Unit 5: Product Chemistry 17/18

Task

You are a product chemist and need to design an effective product that is safe for humans and the environment.
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Driving Question

How do the products we use (food, cleaning-body and household) affect us and our environment?

Phenomenon

How does soap work?

Vocabulary

English Language Learners, you are responsible for vocabulary with an asterisk (*).
Totally Awesome vocabulary has an exclamation mark (!). This is extended vocabulary.
Atom*
Atomic number
Atomic mass
Atomic Mass Unit (amu)  (!)
Bond*
Charge (negative, positive, neutral)*

Chemical symbol*
Electron*
Nucleus*
Proton*
​Chemical reaction*
Solution*
Precipitate 

Resources

BBC Chemistry of Cleaning article

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NEXT YEAR: Buy PopNet curriculum -- People and Planet - use Secret Life of Stuff
NEXT YEAR: 
Include video from Cal Academy about Synthetic Clothing

Lessons

​ Lesson 0 - Unit Set Up 
Day 1 (May 13 - 2nd, May 15th - 7th) - Setting up Unit Title Page, Big Aha! (How do the products we use (food, cleaning-body and household) affect us and our environment?)  & ToC
Day 2 (May 14 2nd period/7th period) - test water &  write Water Purification Report
Day 3 (May 15/16) - Collect notebooks, 30 minutes finish writing Water Purification Reports & watch a little of Stink The Movie
Day 4 (May 17 - SUB Field trip) -  ​reading Compounds, p. 127 & One Pager! p. 128
Day 5 (May 20/21) - return geology summative tasks, new seats, & work on One-Pager!


Lesson 1: Atoms & The Periodic Table
Day 6 (May 21/22) - The Atoms Family

Lesson 2: Compounds & Reactions
Day 7 (May 22/23) - Gallery Walk - Compounds: One Pager! Modeling Atoms, Molecules & Extended Structures
​Day 8 (May 24) - 10 minutes water groups; look over videos - Did it react?
Day 9 (May 28/29) - Modeling Chemical Reactions & finish "Did it React?"
Day 10 (May 29 - Period 2 and May 30 - Period 7 SUB) - Did it React? CER & Reefs at Risk + a little time to work on Big Ahas!
Day 11 (May 31 - Periods 2 & 7 - SUB) - Skin Deep & A Chemist's Observation


Lesson 3: Reptile Eggs
Day 12 (June 3/4) - Review Answers for A Chemist's Observation & Start Reptile Eggs task
Day 13  (June 4/5) - Reptile eggs task
Day 14 (June 5/6) - Reptile Eggs & CER - Work in garden or Notebook
Day 15 (June 7) - Collect notebooks & Watch Bill Nye Chemical Reactions 


​Lesson S: Summative Task

Have not updated below this line.
Day 2 - (May 1) - Phenomenon Soap, The Atoms Family

Lesson 1: Not done
Day 5 (May 7/8) - Periodic Table Families
Day 6 (May 8/9) - Work day: work on Water-wise project
NEXT YEAR: Atomic Box Project (research will be done on Google Classroom)
Day 7 - SUB (May 10) - STINK the movie
Day 8 (May 11) - Finish STINK the movie
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Day 9 (May 14/15) - Periodic Table Basics: review Metals or Nonmetals? Read Compounds & Assign Atomic Box Project
Day 10  - (May 15/16) - Finish Modeling Atoms, Molecules & Extended Structures &  Periodic Table song

Lesson 2: Compounds & Reactions
Day 11 (May 16/17) - Modeling Chemical Reactions and Did it react? - Part I 
Day 12 (May 18) - Did it react? - Part II
Day 13 (May 21/22) -  Skin Deep website, Sun tan lotion, Reading chemical reactions
Day 14 (May 22/23) - CER Evidence of a chemical reaction & Don't Lose Your Friends
 
Lesson 3: Reptile Eggs
Day 15 (May 23/24) - A Chemist's Observation & Reptile Eggs task
Day 16  (May 25) - Reptile eggs task

Lesson S: Summative Task
Day 17 (May 29/30) - Reptile Eggs & CER - Choose your glue recipe
Day 18 (May 30/31) - Summative Task - Glue - Part 1
Day 19 (June 1) -  Summative Task - Glue - Part 2: Collect notebooks

End of Unit Survey; & Part 3: Glue test products




LAST YEAR
​ ​Periodic Table TED Ed animation,  Matter & The Periodic Table Notes 
Day 16 (May 22) - Unnatural Life Cycle Project - introduce project
Day 17 (May 23) - Unnatural Life Cycle Project - work day

Day 13 (didn't get to this year) exothermic & endothermic reactions PPT - maybe do only reptile eggs instead NEXT YEAR

Make It Real! Home Beauty & Cleaning Products

Movies

Stink! - a documentary about chemicals in household and beauty products
Chemercial - a documentary about "redefining clean" for a toxic free world

Video Shorts

What's in Your Sunscreen?

​Skin Deep Database

Explore what is in the household and beauty products you use with the Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep Database.

Books

Not Just a Pretty Face - The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry by Stacy Malkan
No More Dirty Looks: The Truth Behind Your Beauty Products by Siobhan O'Connor

​Youth Activism

Teens Turning Green - a student-led group helping youth live a greener lifestyle; founded in Marin County

Make it!

Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair - by Dina Falconi (in school library) 
Wellness Mama - 50 DIY Recipes
There are dozens and dozens of great sites that give recipes for non-toxic beauty and household products!
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Homemade toothpaste, deodorant & sugar scrub.













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Projects
Bohring Project - Periodic Table Basics; example
Periodic Table Family Storybook
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 project explanation & rubric; group members and their periodic table family  list
Element Ad - project explanation & scoring guide
    Helpful websites about elements:
    -  Chemicool
    - Beautiful version of the periodic table  (PeriodicTable.com)

Atomic Theory
Atomic Structure BBC interactive lesson
Atomic Structure BBC activity
Fabric of the Cosmos: Quantum Leap - great image of Bohr's ideas and quantum mechanics - first 15 minutes

Periodic Table
History 

100 Great Discoveries Shorts: Mendeleev's Period Table - Science Channel videos
History of the Atom - hosted on BackPack.tv
Biochemical Periodic Table
Biochemical Periodic Table as a Spiral Graph



Learn the Elements
Song to help learn the first 10 Elements - hosted on YouTube
Periodic table games - learn 40 basic elements and their symbols
Funbrain Periodic Table Game - given the name of an element, click on its symbol
Periodic Table Flashcards (30 elements) + games and quizzes of the elements - for now, just learn the name and symbol, but it's good to see how the properties & uses too
Periodic Table flashcards - has more symbols than you are responsible for, but it's good practice on learning how to find elements too

Periodic Table
Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" song
Meet the Elements song by They Might Be Giants
Beautiful version of the periodic table  (PeriodicTable.com)- color, images, descriptions
Colorful version of Periodic table - makes types of elements visually clear

Atoms & Isotopes
Atoms & Isotopes BBC - explanation with interactive piece


Soap video - how it works
Soap video



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