Reporting Cluster: Properties and Variations in Matter
Topic / Knowledge: / Assessments:
Properties of Matter / 4 / In addition to score 3.0 performance, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications that go beyond the target.
3
Proficient / Students demonstrate they have developed an understanding of:
- density as a relationship between mass and volume
- how to differentiate between a physical and chemical property
- the three phases of matter in relationship to particle movement and particle arrangement
- determine an object’s density using the formula d=m/v
2 / Students will recognize or recall :
Specific vocabulary such as:
matter, physical properties, chemical properties, molecules, density, mass, weight, volume, solid, liquid, gas, plasma, particles, element, pure substance
Basic knowledge such as:
- matter exists in three basic states on Earth
- recognizing a visual representation of the particle models
- physical properties can be easily observed
1 / Student’s performance reflects insufficient progress towards foundational skills and knowledge.
Reporting Cluster: Properties and Variations in Matter
Topic / Knowledge: / Assessments:
Energy and Phase Changes of Matter / 4 / In addition to score 3.0 performance, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications that go beyond the target.
3
Proficient / Students demonstrate they have developed an understanding of:
- the difference between heat and temperature
- the movement of energy into or out of matter to cause phase change
- the energies associated with the particles in 3 phases of matter
2 / Students will recognize or recall :
Specific vocabulary such as:
phase change, condensation, evaporation, sublimation, melting, freezing, energy, boiling, vapor, energy transfer, heat, temperature
Basic knowledge such as:
- energy transfer causes phase changes
- the phase of matter is determined by the energy of the particles within
- phase changes are physical changes
1 / Student’s performance reflects insufficient progress towards foundational skills and knowledge.
Reporting Cluster: Properties and Variations in Matter
Topic / Knowledge: / Assessments:
The Periodic Table / 4 / In addition to score 3.0 performance, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications that go beyond the target.
3
Proficient / Students demonstrate they have developed an understanding of:
- the reasoning for an element’s placement on the periodic table
- the relationship between protons, neutrons and electrons
- the properties of element groups
- the atom as a basic building block of all matter
- use the periodic table to locate an element with specific characteristics
- use the periodic table to create a diagram of the structure of an atom
- use the periodic table to determine an element’s reactivity
- elements combine to form compounds
- differentiate between compounds and mixtures
2 / Students will recognize or recall:
Specific vocabulary such as:
Periodic table, element, compound, mixture, atom, proton, neutron, electron, nucleus, positive, negative, neutral, chemical symbol, atomic number, atomic mass, period, group, metal, non-metal, metalloid, inert, noble gas,
reactivity, stable
Basic knowledge such as:
- the atomic number is equal to the number of protons in an atom
- the three parts of the atom and their charges
- elements on the periodic table are arranged according to their atomic number
- how to locate an element on the periodic table
1 / Student’s performance reflects insufficient progress towards foundational skills and knowledge.
Suggested Instructional Resources
Sample Learner Objectives / Topic / Textbook Resources / Labs / PBL Ideas
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- I can describe the three main phases of matter using the particle model.
- I can describe density as a relationship between mass and volume, independent of sample size.
- I can explain how matter changes phase through the transfer of energy.
- I can explain the relationships among temperature, particle speed, particle spacing, and density of most substances.
- I can distinguish between an element and a compound.
- I can explain reasoning for an element’s placement on the periodic table.
- I can differentiate among protons, neutrons and electrons.