Chemistry, it's SCIENCE!

Planning for my science unit has been slow going because I want to make it more interesting and to move away from the textbook, but that's difficult.

I found an interesting website, Mr. Watt's Foundation of Knowledge but I'm not sure I'm going to use too much of it.

I think we're going to start with some vocabulary and reading from the text book, but then we're going to work on looking at substances under a microscope.

Our first lesson is just a introduction to classifying matter based on whether it is a pure substance or a mixture.

We will probably do some vocabulary sheets but that's boring. But we're also going to do some observations of our own.  This website looks interesting.

These slides look useful for later in the unit, too.   And I'll probably use part of this too, but have to adapt for Grade 7, although the iron filings in flour separation with magnets looks interesting.