Disciplinary Core Ideas
In this unit, students use the phenomenon of why certain materials (such as the materials that make up a baseball) are useful for a particular function to explore the relationship between matter and energy phenomena. In this lesson students manipulate the properties of a polymer bouncy ball by changing the amounts of reactants in a chemical reaction. This page highlights key parts of this lesson.
In this unit, students explore phenomena on the relationship between matter’s structure and its function, and how people can use this knowledge to manufacture new materials and products with specific purposes. Students begin by investigating how matter is changed, but always conserved, in both endothermic and exothermic reactions. In this lesson, students use a manufacturing process to turn raw materials into a finished product. This page showcases key components of this lesson.
