Project Description
With this project, we were supposed to design a two week science curriculum. We had to base it off of the science standards for fifth graders. It needed to include labs and be able to assess in some way that the students were retaining the information needed. The project let us include any type of activities, quizzes, tests, or labs that we wanted.
Our group decided to base our curriculum off of Project Based Learning with these standards:
1. Elements and their combinations account for all the varied types of matter in the world. As a basis for understanding this concept: a. Students know that during chemical reactions the atoms in the reactants rearrange to form products with different properties.
2. Students know all matter is made of atoms, which may combine to form molecules.
3. Students know metals have properties in common, such as high electrical and thermal conductivity. Some metals, such as aluminum ,iron, nickel, copper, silver, and gold, are pure elements while others, such as steel and brass, are composed of a combination of elemental metals.
4. Students know that each element is made of one kind of atom and that the elements are organized in the periodic table by their chemical properties.
5. Students know scientists have developed instruments that can create discrete images of atoms and molecules that show that the atoms and molecules often occur in well'ordered arrays.
6. Students know differences in chemical and physical properties of substances are used to separate mixtures and identify compounds.
7. Students know properties of solid, liquid, and gaseous substances, such as sugar, water, helium, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide .
8. Students know living organisms and most materials are composed of just a few elements.
9. Students know the common properties of salts, such as sodium chloride.
With this project, we were supposed to design a two week science curriculum. We had to base it off of the science standards for fifth graders. It needed to include labs and be able to assess in some way that the students were retaining the information needed. The project let us include any type of activities, quizzes, tests, or labs that we wanted.
Our group decided to base our curriculum off of Project Based Learning with these standards:
1. Elements and their combinations account for all the varied types of matter in the world. As a basis for understanding this concept: a. Students know that during chemical reactions the atoms in the reactants rearrange to form products with different properties.
2. Students know all matter is made of atoms, which may combine to form molecules.
3. Students know metals have properties in common, such as high electrical and thermal conductivity. Some metals, such as aluminum ,iron, nickel, copper, silver, and gold, are pure elements while others, such as steel and brass, are composed of a combination of elemental metals.
4. Students know that each element is made of one kind of atom and that the elements are organized in the periodic table by their chemical properties.
5. Students know scientists have developed instruments that can create discrete images of atoms and molecules that show that the atoms and molecules often occur in well'ordered arrays.
6. Students know differences in chemical and physical properties of substances are used to separate mixtures and identify compounds.
7. Students know properties of solid, liquid, and gaseous substances, such as sugar, water, helium, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide .
8. Students know living organisms and most materials are composed of just a few elements.
9. Students know the common properties of salts, such as sodium chloride.
Reflection
Our group worked very well together. We were able to communicate our ideas into the project by incorporating the most information and experiments we could. We also were able to give as many suggestions and talk about them with thorough thinking and planning. Although, we could have split up the work better because I know I could have done more to help out the group than I had. We also should have planned a better way to assess the information that they retained throughout the course at the end of the weeks plans. I really enjoyed doing this project because it was a new way for us to teach others while learning instead of the usual, which is us only learning from others.
Our group worked very well together. We were able to communicate our ideas into the project by incorporating the most information and experiments we could. We also were able to give as many suggestions and talk about them with thorough thinking and planning. Although, we could have split up the work better because I know I could have done more to help out the group than I had. We also should have planned a better way to assess the information that they retained throughout the course at the end of the weeks plans. I really enjoyed doing this project because it was a new way for us to teach others while learning instead of the usual, which is us only learning from others.