LARN 029 C8D1
Start the following in class:
Concept Mapping Instructions:
The purpose of constructing a concept map is to challenge you to think about the relationships between the various listed terms, not to grade you on what you write.
Do not give term definitions; we are making a concept map showing some of the relationships between the chemistry terms, not a vocabulary sheet.
- Be sure to draw a circle, oval, or box figure around each of the given terms.
- Connect related terms with arrows that have an arrow head.
- Express the relationship between the two terms in a sentence.
- Think of a verb or verb phrase that relates each subject word at the tail of the arrow to the object or predicate nominative word at the head of the arrow..
- Draw the arrow from the subject word to the object word to which it is related such that a sentence relating the two terms reads in the direction of the arrow.
- Check that the subject of each sentence explaining the relationship is shown at the tail of the arrow.
- Check that the arrow head is touching the geometrical figure drawn around the term which is the object or predicate nominative of the verb that you have chosen.
- Write the verb or verb phrase that describes the relationship of the subject to the predicate next to the middle of each arrow that connects the two terms.
- Repeat this process until all the given terms have been connected to at least one other term in a single web of connected sentences. You may add one or more extra terms if that would make relating terms easier for you to do. That is, you may add an extra word to your concept map if adding that word allows you to write a sentence showing a relationship between a given word and the word that you added.
1. For journal entry J29 you are to construct a concept map in your journal notebook. Please turn to page 95 in your text and construct a concept map relating at least the eight terms listed at the bottom of the page as today’s journal reflection according to the instructions given above.
2. Do all the pages in the chapter 3 Formative Test on Scientific Measurement as a formative assessment to find out some of the things that you do and do not know, and not as a research project.
- If you did not obtain a section review packet for the chapter in class, either click on the link Formative Tests or go to MNSD Google Drive > Student Resources > Formative Tests and print off a copy of the test for the chapter you are studying. Each chapter test is identified by a name whose last two digits is the chapter number. When you open the chapter formative test the first page will have the words “Chapter Test A” in the title.
- For each question or problem challenge, either answer the question to the best of your ability using one or more full sentences, or answer the problem to the best of your ability by recording any numbers and units together with the mathematical operations performed in symbolic terms, along with the solution to the problem which should be circled.
- This is an important assignment. Each formative test is a real chapter test that some teachers in other schools might use as a chapter test, so after taking the test, make sure that you understand each unfamiliar word, idea, concept,and problem. Be sure to finish this packet in its entirety.
- After doing the formative test, but before you demonstrate your understanding on our class’ chapter test, you will check all your responses using green ink check marks √ for each correct response, and by lining out (striking trough) and inserting improved text in green ink when you think the suggested response expresses your present understanding in a better way. In that way make sure that you understand each idea that you originally did not have a complete understanding of. Then you will be able to study more efficiently by studying that which you corrected in green ink.
3. Log onto Google Classroom and follow the instructions for LARN 029 C8D1 on the meanings of SI prefixes.
Recommended for those who have time left in their 45 minute study period, but not required of all:
1. Review for your chapter 3 test. Open the flipchart entitled Measurement in Science in the ActivInspire software program. Study and review the ActivInspire flipchart entitled Measurement in Science until you are sure that you understand all the concepts listed. Study the class notes you have taken, chapter vocabulary, the corrected journal responses that you have made, and this chapter’s documents and flipcharts.
2. Study the Key Concepts given on pages 33, 57, and 95 of the text.