Target Performances
| Lesson 1 – Pretest and Expressing Ideas (students as questioners) | |
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Activity 1.1: Systems and Scale Unit Pretest |
Students show their initial proficiencies for the overall unit goal: Questioning, investigating, and explaining how matter and energy changed during combustion of organic materials. |
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Activity 1.2: Expressing Ideas about Ethanol Burning (40 min) |
Students ask and record specific questions about changes in matter and energy in response to the unit driving question: What happens when ethanol burns? |
NGSS Performance Expectations
This lesson helps prepare students to meet the NGSS performance expectations, but does not feature a mastery of any of them.