Integrated Physics and Chemistry Unit 1

Big Idea:

Learning how to use the scientific method and lab skills to do science.

Student Expectations:

Priority TEKS

I.1(A) demonstrate safe practices during laboratory and field investigations, including the appropriate use of safety showers, eyewash fountains, safety goggles, and fire extinguishers

I.2(B) plan and implement investigative procedures, including asking questions, formulating testable hypotheses, and selecting equipment and technology

I.2C) collect data and make measurements with accuracy and precision

I.2(D) organize, analyze, evaluate, make inferences, and predict trends from data

I.2(E) communicate valid conclusions supported by the data through methods such as lab reports, labeled drawings, graphs, journals, summaries, oral reports, and technology based reports.

Student Learning Targets:

I will do a lab safely

• I can light a Bunsen burner safely.
• I wear goggles around chemicals, flames, and glassware.
• I know how to dispose of lab chemicals correctly.
• I know how to measure and pour chemicals.
• I can clean up my lab station appropriately

I will set up and do lab on my own.

• I can select and set up lab equipment to solve a lab related problem.
• I can ask questions that can be tested in lab.
• I can make a hypothesis and test it in lab.

I will use lab equipment to measure and collect data.

• I use lab tools to collect data.
• I use all numbers available when making a measurement in lab

I will interpret my data to predict trends.

• I can design data tables for my lab results.
• I can put my data in an appropriate graph.
• I can predict what may happen with similar lab materials using my lab data.
• I can decide if my lab data was accurate.
• I can use my lab data to infer what might happen in similar situation

I will organize, evaluate, analyze and communicate information from my lab.

• I can use my data to produce a conclusion from my lab.
• I can analyze my data for errors.
• I can formulate improvements to my lab from the data I collected.

Essential Questions:

Extra Information:

Adopted Textbook: McGraw-Hill, Glencoe IPC Texas

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