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This WebQuest is an inquiry-based project that is designed to facilitate 9th-grade students learning about chemistry. Students will have already discussed the structure of the atom. This WebQuest focuses on the periodic table.
Standards Covered With This Lesson
Science content standards covered in this lesson include the following:
• Convey results of investigations using scientific concepts, methodologies, and expressions (1.1.1.3)
• Convey results of investigations using scientific concepts, methodologies, and expressions (1.1.1.4)
• Examine the scientific processes and logic used in investigations of past events (1.1.11.6)
• Create multiple displays of data to analyze and explain the relationships in scientific investigations (1.1.111.1)
• Identify and apply measurement techniques and consider possible effects of measurement errors (1.1.111.4)
• Describe trends in properties (e.g. ionization energy or reactivity as a function of location on the periodic table) (11.1.1.4)
• Understand how the type and arrangement of atoms and their bonds determine macroscopic properties (11.1.1.9)
• Know that each kind of atom or molecule can gain or lose energy only in discreet amounts (11.1.11.9)
ISTE Student Standards covered include the following:
• Creativity and innovation
• Communication and collaboration
• Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making
Common Core Reading and Writing Standards for Science include the following:
9-10.RST.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to the precise details of explanations or descriptions.
9-10.RST.2 Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; trace the text's explanation or depiction of a complex process, phenomenon, or concept; provide an accurate summary of the text.
9-10.RST.3 Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks, attending to special cases or exceptions defined in the text.
9-10.RST.6 Analyze the author's purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text, defining the question the author seeks to address.
9-10.WHST.2 Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.
9-10.WHST.2a Introduce a topic and organize ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
9-10.WHST.2c Use varied transitions and sentence structures to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
9-10.WHST.2d Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the complexity of the topic and convey a style appropriate to the discipline and context as well as to the expertise of likely readers.
9-10.WHST.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
9-10.WHST.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
9-10.WHST.9 Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.