Unit Plan
This unit was planned using design down unit planning. Below can be found the desired results (big ideas, skills, predictable misconceptions, etc.), the assessment strategy, and the learning plan which includes a day-by-day suggested sequence of lessons and activities.
Energy Changes and Rates of Reaction
Intro to Heat and Enthalpy
Students will use proper scientific terminology from the thermodynamics unit, understand the terms in the Q=mc∆T equation, and compare energy changes resulting from physical, chemical, and nuclear reactions. Below can be found all lesson materials as outlined in the learning plan.
Conditions that Affect Rate and Rate Determinance
Students will investigate how different factors affect the rate of a reaction, explain, using collision theory and potential energy diagrams how factors such as temperature, surface area, catalysts and concentration control the rate of a chemical reaction, and explain how the rate of a reaction is determined by a series of steps. Below are the lesson materials as outlined in the learning plan. Among the materials is an open inquiry lab that the students will complete in the class following this lesson.