Chemistry Unit Bundle - for Introductory Chemistry in Secondary Grades

This bundle contains fifteen unique resources for teaching your Matter/Chemistry Unit. It includes resources that will help you teach everything usually covered in an introductory level chemistry unit while saving money you'd spend buying resources separately.

Here are descriptions of each of the included products:

Atomic Structure Flip Book

This five-page flip book provides information on the parts of the atom, electron shells, atomic number, atomic mass, ions, and isotopes. It is formatted to fit an interactive notebook. It's a great study guide to use before an assessment of learning about atomic structure.

Atomic Structure Task Cards

A set of 28 task cards that require students to apply what they learned by completing the atomic structure flip book, or from your own lessons on atomic structure.

Balancing Chemical Equations PowerPoint

This 106-slide PowerPoint is richly illustrated and has student tasks embedded in it, to keep your students on task. You’ll also receive student notes that accompany the PowerPoint and require student interaction. I’m really confident that by using this PowerPoint you will help students get a firm understanding of the process of balancing equations, and help them to avoid common mistakes.

Chemical Equations Task Cards

This is a set of 32 task cards. The tasks include recognizing products, reactants, coefficients and subscripts, identifying and counting molecules and atoms, determining whether an equation is balanced or unbalanced, selecting the balanced equation from choices, balancing equations with help, and balancing equations without help. The cards are differentiated - gradually increasing in difficulty from cards 1-32. This task card set would be perfect to use after students have seen the PowerPoint on balancing equations and have done the practice tasks embedded in the PowerPoint.

Chemistry Card Game

Combine FUN with practice on basic chemistry vocabulary including identifying examples of atoms, elements, compounds, molecules, chemical formulas, chemical symbols, and chemical equations by using this chemistry card game. It’s a variation on Old Maid, called “Turkey”.

Chemical Symbols Color By Number

I have received so many great reviews on this activity! There's no better way to do repeated practice of chemical symbols! It allows you to easily assess how well your students have learned the 20 commonly used chemical symbols.

Density Problem Solving

Keep your students engaged while practicing problems for determining density! Sounds too good to be true but students stay engaged when the problems are based on a mystery story about museum artifacts! And better yet – after students calculate the density of the objects, their “answer sheet” is a color-by-number picture of a cat statue that is part of this story-based practice activity and that your students will love!

The Elements Nonfiction Reading Passages

Science teachers face increasing pressure to support English/Language Arts standards for teaching students to read informational text. And really, it’s important that we do that. But it’s not easy to find SHORT non-fiction reading materials that support your chemistry unit and that are written specifically for middle school/junior high students. This resource makes a great substitute teacher activity!

Matter Unit Pre-Assessment

The American Academy for the Advancement of Science conducted assessments with students from grades 6-12 to determine what misconceptions they have about matter. This short assessment, based on the AAAS findings will help you to learn which of the common misconceptions are held by YOUR students so that you can plan to address them during your instruction.

Properties of Matter Flip Book

This 5-page flip book provides students with guided notes (use the teacher key to help with planning your lesson) covering the definition of matter (including the difference between weight and mass), physical properties, chemical properties, physical changes, and chemical changes. It also includes four optional pages that you can choose from to add additional content to the flip book. It's formatted for use in interactive notebooks.

Properties Of Matter Guided Graphic Notes

Four pages of illustrated guided notes enhance retention of new material by connecting text with visual images. They help keep students engaged by allowing them to personalize their notes with color, doodles, or their own insights. There are two pages on physical properties and two pages on chemical properties and four versions of each page (fill-in-the-blank, blank, handout, and mini-poster).

Response Cards for Easy Formative Assessment in Chemistry

Speaking of assessment… When you ask students questions and call on several of them - you really only find out what those few students know. And if you ask for volunteers to answer - you find out what the volunteers know. But if you use these response cards, you’ll immediately find out what EVERY student knows (or doesn’t). You’ll be able to correct misconceptions on the spot. And you won’t have any quizzes to grade. (Woot!)

States of Matter Spinner Wheel

Kids can’t resist playing with models that move. And the more they play with this one, the more review they’re doing about the states of matter. It’s differentiated, so you can adjust it as necessary for different students. Give it as an assignment with a textbook reading passage, use it in place of note-taking during your lesson, or even use it as a homework assignment if your students have access at home to simple things like tape and scissors. It’s even simple enough to leave as a substitute teacher activity.

States/Phase of Matter

Four pages of illustrated guided notes enhance retention of new material by connecting text with visual images. They help keep students engaged by allowing them to personalize their notes with color, doodles, or their own insights. There are two pages on the definition of matter (volume and mass) and two pages on the states of matter and changes of state. The resource includes four versions of each page (fill-in-the-blank, blank, handout, and mini-poster).

Warm Ups For Middle School Chemistry

Those first few minutes of class are critical for class management, student engagement, and getting students geared up for learning. But it’s hard to come up with a different 5-10 min. activity for EVERY class during your matter/chemistry lesson. This set of 20 warm-up tasks (enough for a month of chemistry) will do the trick!

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