Grade 4
Science
Standards
1.
A.4.1 When conducting science investigations, ask and answer questions that
will help decide the general areas of science being addressed.
2.
C.4.5 Use data they have collected to develop explanations and answer generated
by investigations.
3.
C.4.6 Communicate the results of their investigations in ways their audiences
will understand by using charts, graphs, drawings, written descriptions, and
various other means, to display their answers.
Literacy
Standards
1.
C.4.1 Orally
communicate information, opinions, and ideas effectively to different audiences
for a variety of purposes.
2.
C.4.2
Listen to and comprehend oral communications.
Directions:
- 1. Go through each molecule and put together the
correct number of atoms to create the molecule. http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/build-a-molecule
- go through at least three collections.
- After each collection draw a picture of the
molecule created.
- 2. Choose one molecule from each collection and
do some research to find what that molecule is a part of.
- 3. Once the three collections are finished go to
the Large Molecules tab and create three different molecules that you remember
putting together in the previous collections
- 4. The final step to the project, explain one of
the molecules you created on your own and what atoms they contain.
- 5. When each of the classmates presents their
findings, write down at least three different molecules that you didn’t create.
The worksheet I created for this activity below.
Build a
Molecule
1. Name
the molecule and put the information into the chart.
Collection 1
|
Name
Of Molecule
|
Name
Atoms in the molecule
|
Drawing
of the molecule
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collection 2
|
Name
Of Molecule
|
Name
Atoms in the molecule
|
Drawing
of the molecule
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collection 3
|
Name
Of Molecule
|
Name
atoms in the molecule.
|
Drawing
of the molecule.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2. Choose
1 molecule from each collection, search the internet and find what the molecule
is used for.
|
Name
of molecule
|
Use
of molecule
|
|
Collection 1:
|
|
|
Collection 2:
|
|
|
Collection 3:
|
|
3. Write
down in the chart the three molecules you’ve created from the large molecule
part on the simulation.
Molecule 1:______________________________________________________
Molecule 2:______________________________________________________
Molecule 3:______________________________________________________
4. Explain
one of the molecules you created on your own and what atoms they contain.___________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
5. Write down three molecules that you did not
create, that your classmates created.
Molecule
1:_____________________________________________________
Molecule
2:_____________________________________________________
Molecule 3:___________________________________________________________
Notation:
Autoionization:
