Science & Nature Magazine

Teachers:

Oscar Sánchez - osanchez@nogales.edu.co

Carolina Huertas - chuertas@nogales.edu.co

María Mercedes Murillo - mmurillo@nogales.edu.co

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Goal & Milestones

Goal: Students will understand how to design and implements effective strategies to communicate scientific and historical knowledge about the periodic table and the societies connected to its history, making the content relevant, engaging, and accessible for teenage audiences.

Driving Question: How can we, as magazine editors, create a fun and interesting magazine that shows different types of writing while making sure the science information is correct and easy to understand?

Milestones
Reading: The Mystery of the Periodic Table

Provocation / Challenge

The students will carry out several laboratory experiments to explore elements, compounds, and chemical reactions, and then decide on the topic they want to publish about. They will look at different types of magazines and explore the purposes of publications.

Research and Content/ Article

They will select a research question that invites exploration of the impacts of chemistry on people’s lives, go to the sources, create an outline, and consolidate an article.

Research and Content/ Poem

Each student will be assigned an element from the periodic table and will study poems in order to write about their element using research and poem structure.

Civilizations/ Timeline

Through the book and the study of access to knowledge in ancient civilizations, they will organize the events on a timeline and design a proper layout to include it in the publication.

Creative Writing

In the study of civilizations and through reading the book, the students will encounter several scientists and use their experiences to write creatively from their perspective.

Editing, Revising

Receiving feedback from different people at the school and support from the Arts department, the students will carry out the full revision, editing, and layout of their magazines.

Final Product

They will work in groups to organize all the material and make collective decisions about the publication in order to answer the question posed at the beginning.

Skills and Content

FINES

Questions to Discuss

Why does a sliced apple turn brown after a few minutes if we leave it on the table?
Why can't we wash grease off a plate with just water, but it disappears the moment we add a drop of soap?
When we bake a cake, what is the invisible gas that makes the dough grow and become fluffy?
Why does an onion make our eyes water even if we aren't sad?
When we put salt into boiling water and it disappears, is the salt still there or has it turned into something else?