Flat Bag! Cold Bag! Puffy Bag!
Experience these “cool” heat producing, cold producing, and gas producing reactions that are safely contained within nested plastic bags.
Standards
Idea Sheets are cross-referenced to subjects listed in the Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, and California Content Standards.
Science and Engineering Practices: 1. Asking Questions and Defining Problems 2. Developing and Using Models 3. Planning and Carrying Out Investigations 4. Analyzing and Interpreting Data 5. Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking 6. Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions 7. Engaging in Argument from Evidence 8. Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information ||Next Generation Science Standards||Grade 4||Science and Engineering Practices|||Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen. [ Examples: adding air to expand a basketball, compressing air in a syringe, dissolving sugar in water, & evaporating salt water.]||Next Generation Science Standards||Grade 5||Physical Science||Matter and its Interactions|||Make observations & measurements to identify materials based on their properties. [Examples of properties: color, hardness, reflectivity, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, response to magnetic forces, & solubility; density is not intended as an identifiable property.]||Next Generation Science Standards||Grade 5||Physical Science||Matter and its Interactions|||Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances. ||Next Generation Science Standards||Grade 5||Physical Science||Matter and its Interactions|||Science and Engineering Practices: 1. Asking Questions and Defining Problems 2. Developing and Using Models 3. Planning and Carrying Out Investigations 4. Analyzing and Interpreting Data 5. Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking 6. Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions 7. Engaging in Argument from Evidence 8. Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information ||Next Generation Science Standards||Grade 5||Science and Engineering Practices|||Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred. [Examples:burrning sugar or steel wool, fat reacting with sodium hydroxide, mixing zinc with HCl.]||Next Generation Science Standards||Middle School||Physical Science||Matter and Its Interactions |||Undertake a design project to construct, test, and modify a device that either releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes.||Next Generation Science Standards||Middle School||Physical Science||Matter and Its Interactions |||Science and Engineering Practices: 1. Asking Questions and Defining Problems 2. Developing and Using Models 3. Planning and Carrying Out Investigations 4. Analyzing and Interpreting Data 5. Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking 6. Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions 7. Engaging in Argument from Evidence 8. Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information ||Next Generation Science Standards||Middle School||Science and Engineering Practices|||Construct & revise an explanation for the outcome of a simple chemical reaction based on the outermost electron states of atoms, trends in the periodic table, & knowledge of the patterns of chemical properties. ||Next Generation Science Standards||High School||Physical Science||Matter and Its Interactions|||Apply scientific principles & evidence to provide an explanation about the effects of changing the temperature or concentration of the reacting particles on the rate at which a reaction occurs. ||Next Generation Science Standards||High School||Physical Science||Matter and Its Interactions|||Refine the design of a chemical system by specifying a change in conditions that would produce increased amounts of products at equilibrium.||Next Generation Science Standards||High School||Physical Science||Matter and Its Interactions|||Science and Engineering Practices: 1. Asking Questions and Defining Problems 2. Developing and Using Models 3. Planning and Carrying Out Investigations 4. Analyzing and Interpreting Data 5. Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking 6. Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions 7. Engaging in Argument from Evidence 8. Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information ||Next Generation Science Standards||High School||Science and Engineering Practices
1.a. During chemical reactions, the atoms in the reactants rearrange to form products with different properties.||CA Science||Grade 5||01. Physical Sciences||1. Elements and their combinations account for all the varied types of matter in the world.|||5.a. Reactant atoms and molecules interact to form products with different chemical properties.||Grade 8||01. Physical Sciences||5. Reactions||5. Chemical reactions are processes in which atoms are rearranged into different combinations of molecules.|||5.b. The idea of atoms explains the conservation of matter: in chemical reactions the number of atoms stays the same no matter how they are arranged, so their total mass stays the same.||Grade 8||01. Physical Sciences||5. Reactions||5. Chemical reactions are processes in which atoms are rearranged into different combinations of molecules.|||5.c. Chemical reactions usually liberate heat or absorb heat.||Grade 8||01. Physical Sciences||5. Reactions||5. Chemical reactions are processes in which atoms are rearranged into different combinations of molecules.|||5.e. How to determine whether a solution is acidic, basic or neutral.||Grade 8||01. Physical Sciences||5. Reactions||5. Chemical reactions are processes in which atoms are rearranged into different combinations of molecules.|||5.a. The observable properties of acids, bases and salt solutions.||Grade 9-12||02. Chemistry||5. Acids and Bases||5. Acids, bases, and salts are three classes of compounds that form ions in water solutions.|||5.b. Acids are hydrogen-ion-donating and bases are hydrogen-ion-accepting substances.||Grade 9-12||02. Chemistry||5. Acids and Bases||5. Acids, bases, and salts are three classes of compounds that form ions in water solutions.|||5.c. Strong acids and bases fully dissociate and weak acids and bases partially dissociate.||Grade 9-12||02. Chemistry||5. Acids and Bases||5. Acids, bases, and salts are three classes of compounds that form ions in water solutions.|||5.d. How to use the pH scale to characterize acid and base solutions.||Grade 9-12||02. Chemistry||5. Acids and Bases||5. Acids, bases, and salts are three classes of compounds that form ions in water solutions.|||5.e.* The Arrhenius, Bronsted-Lowry, and Lewis acid-base definitions. (achievement is optional)||Grade 9-12||02. Chemistry||5. Acids and Bases||5. Acids, bases, and salts are three classes of compounds that form ions in water solutions.|||5.f.* How to calculate pH from the hydrogen ion concentration. (achievement is optional)||Grade 9-12||02. Chemistry||5. Acids and Bases||5. Acids, bases, and salts are three classes of compounds that form ions in water solutions.
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