Grade 11 · Week 21 · U5
Essential question: How can a multi-step pathway control overall reaction rate?
A catalyst changes reaction rate without changing overall reactants/products.
Build an initial model and explanation for: How can a multi-step pathway control overall reaction rate?
Record observations, questions, an initial model, and one claim that could be tested. Use these concepts where relevant: mechanism; elementary step; intermediate; catalyst; transition state.
Study and explain the week's core ideas: mechanism; elementary step; intermediate; catalyst; transition state
Open kinetics mechanisms overview.
Revise Monday's model. Add two evidence-backed annotations and explain one limitation or uncertainty.
Read multistep energy profiles.
Show units, setup, calculation or graph reasoning, then write what the quantitative evidence can and cannot establish about: How can a multi-step pathway control overall reaction rate?
Energy-profile/model analysis.
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.
Answer the essential question: How can a multi-step pathway control overall reaction rate?
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.