1. Natural and Synthetic Products

2. Where do the resources come from to make the products?
trees
petroleum

3. What changes need to be made to the materials to make the final product?
Cut and sand
Connect pieces
Get needed material from petroleum (monomer)
Attach parts with a chemical reaction (polymer)

4. Which changes are physical and which are chemical?
Physical Change
Chemical Change

5. True Quiz Time: True or False Both natural and synthetic products come
from natural resources.
True

6. Quiz Time:
How can you decide if something should be classified as natural or synthetic?
Find out if the processes used to make the product require physical or chemical changes.

7. Will Synthetic Vitamins Make Me Explode?
Video Time:
Will Synthetic Vitamins Make Me Explode?
Professor
Dave
Explains

8. Follow up questions… Is vitamin D, the “sunshine vitamin,”
natural or synthetic?
What are some reasons it might be useful for scientists to
synthesize a compound that can be found in nature?

9. Your job:
You will be choosing and researching a synthetic product to answer the question…
“Is it worthwhile to make this synthetic product?”

10. Research Focus Questions:
What natural resources are used to make the
synthetic product?
What basic chemical processes are used to make the
synthetic product?
What are the negative and positive impacts on society
of making and using the synthetic product compared
to making and using a more natural product with a
similar function?

11. But first we’ll practice it together…