12/12/14 Biological Molecule Project Final Step

Date: 12/12/14

Class: Chemistry

Periods: B1

Outcomes: Students will create an information poster using the research from the last 3 classes.

Standards: 9-12.P.1.2

Student Needs: 

Assessment Plan: Poster

Lesson Outline: Bellringer > Today you will be taking the research from the last 3 classes and use it to make a poster about your molecule. Your poster should include a drawing of the molecule's structure, it's molecular weight and chemical formula, and it's history and chemistry papers glued to it. Take your time and try for professionalism. > HW: Finish Poster. Review for Final next time.

12/8/14 Biological Molecule Project Step 3

Date:12/8/14

Class: Chemistry

Periods: B1

Outcomes: Students will research the chemistry of one of their biological molecules.

Standards: 9-12.P.1.2

Student Needs: 

Assessment Plan: One page paper on the chemistry of their molecule.

Lesson Outline: Bellringer > Last time you researched the research history of 2 or 3 of your molecules. Today you will research the chemistry of 1 of your molecules. Write up what you find in a 1 page double spaced paper. Have it printed out by next time. > HW: Finish Step 3

12/4/14 Biological Molecule Project Step 2

Date: 12/4/14

Class: Chemistry

Periods: B1

Outcomes: Students will write about how 2 biological molecules were discovered/isolated/developed.

Standards: 9-12.P.1.2

Student Needs: 

Assessment Plan: Write up on the history of 2 biological molecules.

Lesson Outline: Bellringer > Glucose diagram and polar bonds and shapes. > Ask students for one interesting thing they learned about one of the molecules they researched last time. > For today we will pick two of the molecules we picked and figure out who isolated or discovered it. Tell me about the researcher and the year this work was done on it. > HW: Finish Step 2

12/2/14 Biological Molecule Project 1

Date: 12/2/14

Class: Chemistry

Periods: B1

Outcomes: Students will determine the structures of 5 biological molecules.

Standards: 9-12.P.1.2

Student Needs: 

Assessment Plan: Quick summary of 5 biological molecules and sketches of them.

Lesson Outline: Bellringer > Why is carbon special amongst the nonmetals? (It's the only one to form 4 covalent bonds) > Draw hemoglobin on the board and explain what it's purpose is and how the 1 iron atom in the middle is the reason it does what it does (carry oxygen throughout the blood). > Students will then research 5 different biological molecules. They will create a document with the names, molecular weights, purpose and sketches of the 5 molecules. > HW: Finish Step 1.

11/24/14 Biochemistry 2

Date: 11/24/14

Class: Chemistry

Periods: B1

Outcomes: Students will relate what they've learned in chemistry towards biological processes.

Standards: 9-12.P.1.5

Student Needs: 

Assessment Plan: One-Day Paper

Lesson Outline: Bellringer > Brief overview of intermolecular forces > All biological processes are chemical reactions of one kind or another. > Give directions for paper: describe the reactions of photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Where and what kind of energy is involved? What catalysts/enzymes are involved in each reaction and what specifically do they do? > Explain how complex photosynthesis is despite it's basic chemical equation.

11/20/14 Biochemistry 1

Date: 11/20/14

Class: Chemistry

Periods: B1

Outcomes: Students will be able to apply what they’ve learned about chemical reactions to the process of bioluminescence.

Standards: 9-12.P.1.4

Student Needs: 

Assessment Plan: Short paper.

Lesson Outline: What is a decomposition reaction? It is the opposite of what? > Biology is simply a complicated set of chemical reactions. > Give directions for short paper: What is an enzyme and what do they do? Explain the enzyme lactase, how does it work? Chemically, describe it. Write the equation for the breakdown for lactose. Balance the equation. What kind of reaction is it? Where does energy fit into the reaction? Why are some people lactose intolerant? HW: Classification Quiz next time and read 10.1

11/18/14 Balancing Quiz and Section Assessments

Date: 11/18/14

Class: Chemistry

Periods: B1

Outcomes: Students will be able to identify when a double replacement and single replacement reactions have occurred.

Standards: 9-12.P.1.4

Student Needs: 

Assessment Plan: Lab report

Lesson Outline: How can you tell a double replacement reaction has occurred? How can you tell if a single replacement reaction will occur? > Balancing Equations Quiz > Demo lead nitrate and potassium iodide. > Demo copper wire in silver nitrate > Read the rest of 9.3 How are gases similar to solids and why are overall reactions helpful > HW: Section Assessments pg. 288 (7, 8, 10-12), pg. 298 (29-33)