Chemical Reactions and Conservation of Matter Activities Lesson Plan Unit

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This lesson plan unit bundle will provide you with 3 weeks of lessons, activities, review sheets, and assessments to help your students understand and master chemical reactions and the conservation of matter.

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What students are doing:

✴️ Interpreting diagrams and models during inquiry investigations

✴️ Conducting experiments, gathering data, analyzing data, and presenting their findings using the CER format

✴️ Marking the text

✴️ Taking notes

✴️ Collaborating with others

✴️ Drawing conclusions

✴️ Justifying their answers with evidence

What teachers like you are saying about these chemical reaction activities

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐”perfect lesson for engaging students and providing differentiation for my students."- Faye

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⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Love the versatility of this resource."- Elizabeth 

Included in this Unit bundle:

✅ Three different lesson plan designs to meet your needs

✅ Balancing Equations Inquiry

• • Interpret models and diagrams
  • Guided questions
  • Steps build on each other
  • Students make their own discoveries

✅ Chemical reactions science stations

• • Online station PhET lab to learn how to balance equations
  • Group collaboration: baking soda and vinegar lab with the focus on identifying reactants and products and which equation is balanced
  • Teach-led station: understanding the conservation of matter first through shapes and then through the steps of how to balance equations

✅ Chemical reactions flipped lesson

• • Video with a note-taking template on chemical vs. physical change and evidence of chemical reactions
  • short formative quiz
  • Review activity: one-page reading with a note-taking template and a comprehension worksheet, and interactive notebook activity
  • Extend activity: baking soda and vinegar lab with a focus on exothermic vs. endothermic and graphing the temperature

✅ Conservation of Matter flipped lesson.

• • Video with a note-taking template on the conservation of matter and how to balance equations
  • short formative quiz
  • Review activity: one-page reading with a note-taking template and a comprehension worksheet
  • Extend activity: PhET balancing equations activity (same as the science station) and SIMPOP chemical equations online activity

✅ Chemical reactions and balancing equations science reading

• • Three one-page readings
    • Chemical vs. physical change
    • Exothermic vs. Endothermic
    • Balancing Equations
  • Note-taking template
  • Comprehension worksheet
  • Four extension task cards

✅ Chemical change digital interactive notebook

• • Drag and drop activities to demonstrate knowledge
  • CER to explain if a chemical reaction occurred

✅ Conservation of Matter digital interactive notebook

• • Drag and drop activities to demonstrate knowledge
  • model balancing equations

✅ Chemical reactions labs (four different labs)

• • Each lab comes with a video demonstration for students who are absent or if you don’t have the chemicals
  • Students will gather data, identify evidence, and write CER explanations to state if a chemical reaction occurred
    • Copper sulfate, ammonia, and hydrogen peroxide
    • copper chloride and aluminum
    • baking soda, calcium chloride, and phenol red
    • magnesium sulfate (Epsom salt) and sodium carbonate

✅ Chemical reactions quiz

• • interactive notebook review pages
  • multiple choice and short answer

✅ Bonus lessons (Only included in the bundle)

• • Colored beads introduction to conservation of matter by categorizing by color and then shape
  • Game chips balancing equations activity, model balancing equations using game chips
  • Videos: elephant toothpaste and precipitate
    

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