Summary of Unit: The unit, Chemical Reactions and Fossil Fuels, is designed for a 10th grade Honors Chemistry. Students will explore the ideas of heat, energy and chemical reactions. Students will connect the concept of energy and chemical reactions with their impact on their environment. Students will focus on fossil fuels as a form of energy and if they are harmful to the environment. Students will use previous chemistry curriculum when we discuss the meaning of energy, heat, and chemical reactions; they will have the opportunity to think about the impact of fossil fuels on the environment; and finally students will research and defend their position on fossil fuels and alternative energy in a debate format. This will demonstrate what they are thinking and what they have learned throughout this unit. …show more content…
Product Performance and Purpose: Students will complete the worksheets to show their knowledge and understanding of the content. Standards and Criteria for Success: Students will show success by completing worksheets correctly. Facets of understanding: Explanation: Students will demonstrate their understanding by completing worksheets/labs correctly. Interpretation: Students will interpret their understanding by completing the worksheets and labs. Application: Students are applying what they have learned throughout the unit on various activities and assessments. Perspective: Students will analyze what they have learned and will show their perspectives through various writing and lab assignments. Empathy: Students will be learning of the effects of fossil fuels on the environment. Students will show their empathy through writing activities of the unit. Self- Knowledge: Students will reflect during class discussions and will use rubrics for the various informal and formal
Explain how the ethos, mission, aims and values of a school may be reflected in working practices.
With a small group, discuss the following questions. Choose someone to read the question out loud, and direct the discussion so that each person can offer his/her opinion on the topic. Have another student record the group’s response and choose a third student to report the information gathered to the class in a discussion.
The learning outcomes below are to be covered to enable you to achieve the unit.
| Some learners may not feel confident contributing – good ice-breaker required Other learners may dominate discussion – teacher facilitation important Easy to digress from topic – ground rules and teacher facilitation important
The following is the outline of the Plan that the student is advised to follow as closely as possible. Each topic will address one or few specific competencies or learning outcomes. Each competency will be graded and assessed using the attached rubric.
e. Assessment: Describe how you will assess student learning of the lesson objective based on the age/grade/ and needs documented.
It has come to conclusion that fossil fuels are organic materials that are buried in combustible geologic deposits of organic materials. These fossil fuels are formed from decayed organic materials, animals and rocks that have been converted to crude oil, coal, natural gas, or heavy oils by exposure to heat and pressure in the Earth's crust for a very long time. Changing the use of energy can cause effects such as; economic issues and environmental issues. Although, energy is in need of production, many
Provide a graphic (table or chart) or narrative summary of student learning for your whole class. Be sure to summarize student learning for all evaluation criteria described above.
Ensure all students complete all assignments in order to accurately assess each student’s level of proficiency.
Goal 1: To Use data to differentiate instructions and as an indicator of students growth.
These five practices can be simplified into the collaborative process of selecting what students need to
In today’s society fossil fuels are the primary source of energy for most of the industrialized world. Utilizing fossil fuels has been very important to the industrialization development throughout the world. Industrialization in many parts of the world, energy has been needed at a much higher density then before and fossil fuels have fulfilled that need. Coal, gas, and oil are the three major sources of fossil fuels in the world. Despite other means of energy such as wind power, hydroelectric power etc., fossil fuels are still the main source of energy across the continent. Fossils fuels are critical to the function of society. “Fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) are the dominant source of energy today and will be for decades to come.” (Everett, B. October).
Fossil fuels are essential to life on earth as we know it today. Our world would certainly be much different if it weren’t for such seemingly simple things such as coal, oil, and natural gas. These basic elements of life on earth may not seem like a major concern to some people until we put into perspective how they have shaped our world today. Civilizations have been built, economies have risen and crumbled, and even wars have been fought over these precious fossil fuels. However, these fossil fuels serve us in ways we may never truly appreciate, as long as we use them as recklessly as we do now. The major entity about fossil fuels is concerning their longevity and permanence in our world, and we all know, they will be around forever.
Related to this, another topic seen during this semester was about the lesson plans as means of reflection. It was something very useful that never crossed my mind: writing some notes or observations about the class after it ended can be very helpful to discover things that otherwise may go unnoticed and at the end, it can help us to avoid doing the same mistakes over and over. I found this tool useful and important to my practice because it helped me to realize some situations that can present in a class and also it encouraged me to reflect on how can I solve those issues and avoid them to occur