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UNIT: Wastewater Context for Matter and Its Interactions

LESSON: Molecular Structure of Water.

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Part of a series of lessons in a unit called Wastewater Context for Matter and its interactions. Designed for middle school physical science, students will come to understand the uniqueness of water through the properties that emerge from its polarity.

Lesson Specs

Suitable for Grades

8th Grade
7th Grade
6th Grade

Satisfies Academic Standards: 

MS-PS1-1 - Atomic Composition

Sustainable System Focus:

Water

Academic Subjects

Science

Submitted by:

Jeffrey Burgard

Last Updated:

November 23, 2020, 10:15:29 PM

Content Connection

Once students are familiar with molecules and compounds this lesson focuses on the unique properties of water that are the result of it molecular structure.

 

Scientific Principle(s)

  1. Matter is composed of elements and molecules whose properties are determined by their structure

Application

  1. Water’s properties are determined by its molecular structure: water is polar

Community Relevance

None

Lesson Plan

Materials

Teacher

  1. Powerpoint slides

 

Student

  1. Notebooks

 

The Plan

Time needed: .5 class period

  1. After the lesson activities are show the Powerpoint slides to explain polarity and how it affects the properties of water

  2. It may also be a good time to re-show the properties of water video. Students will see it with a whole different perspective now

  3. I have students draw the water molecule in their notebooks with the positive an negative charges on the appropriate ends of the molecule