Chemistry Unit

A Work in Progress!

These are the resources I am developing for the grade 10 chemistry unit. They are hot off the presses and have not yet been classroom tested! If you try these out, I would appreciate any feedback you might have.

Unit Design Goals:

• Enhanced Content: A focus on energy and particle diagrams adds a deep conceptual basis to the traditional topics.

• Inquiry Focus: Each lesson follows a structure emphasizing observations, finding patterns, developing ideas and terminology, and application

• Hands-On Activities: Each lesson is full of experiments and activities where students develop and test new ideas. Very little chalk and talk left for the teacher to do!

• Cultural Connections: CRRP strategies based on based on ideas of Zaretta Hammond

• Experimental Videos: All experiments and observations that students make are videoed. Instructions for complex experiments are in video format.

• Designed for Pathways: minimal assumed background knowledge, student-centred, hands-on, but lots of sophisticated scientific thinking!

Article: How to design a science unit

Sample Experiment Videos