1. Transition Metals Unit Portfolio Presentation Chemistry team

2. Unit Summary Exploring physical and chemical properties of transition metals and relate them to the uses of these metals in daily life.

3. Curriculum-Framing Questions Essential Question How do you describe a metal? Unit Questions How can you categorize these metals? Where are these metals used? Content Questions By referring to the periodic table, what is the name of metals found between group 2 & 13? Why some transition metals have more than one oxidation number?

4. Transition Metals Project This project will help my students explore the physical and chemical properties of transition metals and their applications by: Collaborating with peers. Collecting data about physical and chemical properties Finding where transition are applied. Communicating with others in a broshure.

5. Gauging Student Needs Assessment Purpose of the Assessment To gather information about what students already know and what they wonder about transition metals. What I want to learn from my students? I want to find out what they already know about the Unit Questions and what they know about setting up experiments. How I have tried to promote higher-order thinking? I ask students to find relationships and draw conclusions about transition metals How the assessment information helps me and my students plan for upcoming activities in the unit? If students have misconceptions about how to set up experiments, I can provide scaffolds. If students have different levels of understanding about the importance of transition metals, I can provide various resources. We will revisit this assessment throughout the unit for students to add their knowledge. What feedback or additional ideas I ’ d like? I would like help on my assessment. I think I need to elicit more higher- order thinking, but I ’ m not sure how.

6. Find ways to get my students more interested in learning science Learn about different kinds of technology my students and I can use Share ideas with other teachers My Goals for the Course

7. Goals for My Students To learn how scientists collect and think about data To become more independent learners

8. Request for Feedback Places I could find a classroom in a different climate for my students to work with Ideas for helping students take more responsibility for their own learning