Target Student Performance
Students develop hypotheses about how matter moves and changes and how energy changes when ethanol burns and make predictions about how they can use their investigation tools—digital balances and BTB—to detect movements and changes in matter.
Resources You Provide
- (From previous activity) Students’ ideas and questions they shared in Activity 1.2 Expressing Ideas Tool for Ethanol Burning
- (From previous activity) 1.2 Expressing Ideas and Questions Tool for Ethanol Burning
- Video or demonstration of ethanol burning
Resources Provided
- 4.1 Predictions about Ethanol Burning PPT
- 4.1 Predictions and Planning Tool for Ethanol Burning (1 per student)
- 4.1 Assessing the Predictions and Planning Tool for Ethanol Burning
- 4.1 Good Explanations of Chemical Change Reading (1 per student)
Recurring Resources
- Three Questions 11x17 Poster (1 per class)
- Three Questions Handout (Color Version)
- Three Questions Handout (BW Version)
- Questions, Connections, Questions Student Reading Strategy
- (Optional) Investigation Planning Tool
- Burning Ethanol Video
Setup
Print one copy of 4.1 Predictions and Planning Tool for Ethanol Burning, 4.1 Good Explanations of Chemical Change Reading, and Three Questions Handout for each student. Prepare a computer and projector to display the PPT and the video. Print one copy of the Three Questions 11x17 Poster and display it on your classroom wall. Retrieve the materials from Activity 1.2. This may include a PPT slide from the lesson in which you typed students’ responses or a photograph of their sticky notes as well as the students’ completed 1.2 Expressing Ideas and Questions Tool for Ethanol Burning.