Unit Standards and Learning Targets

SC3 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about how the Law of Conservation of Matter is used to determine chemical composition in compounds and chemical reactions.

SC3.a Use mathematics and computational thinking to balance chemical reactions (i.e., synthesis, decomposition, single replacement, double replacement, and combustion) and construct an explanation for the outcome of a simple chemical reaction based on the outermost electron states of atoms, trends in the periodic table, and knowledge of the patterns of chemical properties.

• I can state the law of conservation of matter.

• I can use coefficients to balance equations to support the Law of Conservation of Matter

• I can identify the types of chemical reactions.

• I can classify a reaction as synthesis, decomposition, single replacement, double replacement, or combustion.

• I can use coefficients to provide evidence that a balanced equation supports the Law of Conservation of Matter in different chemical reactions.

• I can explain how the Law of Conservation of Mass relates to the formation of products in a chemical reaction.

• I can use mathematics and computational thinking to balance chemical reactions and construct an explanation for the outcome of a simple chemical reaction based on the outermost electron states of atoms, trends in the periodic table, and knowledge of the patterns of chemical properties.

SC3.b Plan and carry out an investigation to determine that a new chemical has been formed by identifying indicators of a chemical reaction (e.g., precipitate formation, gas evolution, color change, water production, and changes in energy to the system).

• I can recall the types of chemical reactions.

• I can identify indicators of a chemical reaction in an experiment.

• I can classify different chemical equation by type of chemical reaction.

• I can relate the observation of a chemical change and the production of a new substance to a balanced chemical equation.

• I can use the information in a chemical equation to write the complete and net ionic reaction equations. [HONORS only]

SC2 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the chemical and physical properties of matter resulting from the ability of atoms to form bonds.

SC2.g Develop a model to illustrate the release or absorption of energy (endothermic or exothermic) from a chemical reaction system depends upon the changes in total bond energy.

• • I can determine if energy is stored or released in a physical or chemical process.

  • I can identify that in a chemical reaction bonds are broken in the reactants requiring an input of energy and bonds are formed in the products releasing energy.

  • I can explain how the release or absorption of energy from a system depends on changes that occur in the components of the system.

Retested standards & learning targets

SC2.e Ask questions about chemical names to identify patterns in IUPAC nomenclature in order to predict chemical names for ionic (binary and ternary), acidic, and inorganic covalent compounds.

• I can recognize and classify covalent, ionic, and acidic compounds.

• I can identify naming patterns among compounds (patterns among binary ionic, covalent, etc.).

• I can write chemical formulas for ionic, covalent and acids given the names of the compounds and a table of common polyatomic ions.

• I can name ionic, covalent or acids given their chemical formulas and a table of common polyatomic ions.

SC2.f Develop and use bonding models to predict chemical formulas including ionic (binary and ternary), acidic, and inorganic covalent compounds.

• I can identify ionic, covalent and acidic compounds based on their name.

• I can write formulas for binary and ternary ionic, covalent and acidic compounds.

• I can use models to predict chemical formulas including ionic, covalent and acidic inorganic compounds.