Grade 11 · Week 01 · U0
Essential question: How do chemists protect people and evidence while measuring matter?
Open monday Deep Lesson · Model, Worked Example & Practice
Two measurements disagree even though both were recorded carefully.
Build an initial model and explanation for: How do chemists protect people and evidence while measuring matter?
Record observations, questions, an initial model, and one claim that could be tested. Use these concepts where relevant: hazard; PPE; SDS; significant figures; uncertainty; dimensional analysis.
Open tuesday Deep Lesson · Model, Worked Example & Practice
Study and explain the week's core ideas: hazard; PPE; SDS; significant figures; uncertainty; dimensional analysis
Course safety charter and sample SDS excerpts.
Revise Monday's model. Add two evidence-backed annotations and explain one limitation or uncertainty.
Open wednesday Deep Lesson · Model, Worked Example & Practice
Significant figures, percent error, unit conversion, density.
Show units, setup, calculation or graph reasoning, then write what the quantitative evidence can and cannot establish about: How do chemists protect people and evidence while measuring matter?
Open thursday Deep Lesson · Model, Worked Example & Practice
Safety/SDS literacy; balance/volume simulation or supervised measurement; never mix household chemicals.
Use the course safety charter. If supervision, facilities, materials, or conditions are not appropriate, use the supplied-data/simulation alternative rather than improvising hazardous procedures.
Record variables or design constraints, procedure/model, observations/data, and one revision you would make after reviewing the evidence.
Open friday Deep Lesson · Model, Worked Example & Practice
Answer the essential question: How do chemists protect people and evidence while measuring matter?
Submit a claim, at least two specific pieces of evidence, reasoning that connects them, one limitation/counterclaim, and a correction note for any essential concept below 80%.
Select one artifact from this week and explain why it is trustworthy evidence of growth.