1^st Quarter

Learning Objectives and Rubrics for Mastery:

Students will:

• Identify, describe, or explain the energy input/output in a phase change, a chemical reaction, or a nuclear reaction (e.g. water changing from a vapor to a liquid outputs energy).
• Understand the structure of atoms, how atoms bond to form molecules, and that molecules form solutions.
• Understand the atomic nature of matter, how it relates to physical and chemical properties, and how it serves as the basis for the structure and use of the Periodic Table.
• Analyze the factors that affect physical, chemical, and nuclear changes; and understand that matter and energy are conserved.
• Analyze the forms of energy in a system, subsystems, or parts of a system.
• Identify, describe, or explain the relationship between the motion of particles in a substance and the transfer or transformation of heat or electrical energy (e.g. conduction of heat or electrical energy as particles collide or interact, convection of heat energy as groups of particles move from one place to another, light waves transform into heat energy).