TABLE OF CONTENTS - Lindbergh School District

Strand 1: Properties and Principles of Matter and Energy
1. Changes in the properties and states of matter provide evidence of the atomic theory
Major Objectives IS Suggested Activities
These samples activities offer ideas and are not
meant to limit teacher or student
Concept A: Objects, and the materials they are
made of, have properties that can be used to
describe and classify them
resourcefulness.
Grade 6 & 8
Suggested Assessments
These samples assessments offer ideas and
are not meant to limit teacher or student
resourcefulness
Concept B: Properties of mixtures depend upon
the concentrations, properties and interactions
of particles
Concept C: Properties of matter can be
explained in terms of moving particles too small
to be seen without tremendous magnification
Concept D: Physical changes in the state of
matter that result from thermal changes can be
explained by the Kinetic Theory of Matter
Scope and Sequence – Weather & Climate
a. Describe the relationship between temperature
and the movement of atmospheric gases (i.e.,
warm air rises due to expansion of the volume
of gas, cool air sinks due to contraction of the
volume of gas)
Concept E: The atomic model describes the
electrically neutral atom
Concept F: The periodic table organizes the
elements according to their atomic structure and
chemical reactivity
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Grade 6
Grade 6 & 8
Grades 6, 7, 8
a. Teacher will use a convection cell
demonstrator to show the rise of hot air,
the sinking of cooler air, and the resulting
winds between. Students will construct a
working model of a hot air balloon. (1.1;
1.4; 1.6; 3.1)
Grade 8
Not assessed at this level
a. Students will explain, through a diagram,
the workings of a convection cell.
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