Secondary Lesson Plan Template

Name of class:
Length of class:
Chemistry (10/11th)
45min (1-2 class periods)
LEARNING GOALS/STANDARDS to be addressed in this lesson (What goals for learning to
you hope to accomplish and/or national or state standards will you address?):
PS1.A: Structure and Properties of Matter
The structure and interactions of matter at the bulk scale are determined by electrical forces within and between
atoms.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES (What will students know or be expected to do in this lesson? Use
verbs from Blooms Taxonomy):
Students will be able to recognize the difference between intra and intermolecular forces.

CONTENT (What specific concepts, SKILLS: (What skills will students practice or apply?)
facts, or vocabulary will be taught
in this lesson?):
- Writing claim, evidence, and reasoning for
observations.
Bonds, forces, inter/intra,
- Collaborating and sharing ideas with peers.
molecules.
- Making connections between tangible model
and molecular level.
RESOURCES/MATERIALS NEEDED (What materials and resources will I need?):
-

Regular and magnetic beads that look alike.

Student white boards.

LEARNING PLAN (How will you organize student learning in this lesson?
LESSON sequence:
1. Begin with student directed investigation of beads.
Make list of class observations. Discuss claims we
could make about the two types of beads.
2. Students draw a pictorial representation of what
they believe is happening between the two types of
beads. (on whiteboards)
3. Students work in pairs to write claim, evidence, and
reasoning based on their observations of beads.
(share out to class)

Instructional Strategies
1. Begin concrete
abstract.
2. Claim, evidence and
reasoning
3. Group collaboration
4. Drawing models
5. Think pair share built
into lesson.
6. Questioning/use
student ideas to
progress conversation.

Management strategies:
4. Now show students a video of molecules of H2O
1. Pick student groups if
interacting with each other. Ask students what they
necessary.
notice and how are they similar to our beads.
2. Demo beads if I think
5. Go through same draw/CER process but with water
students would play
molecules.
with them.
6. Discuss, then through guided class discussion
3. Assign each students a
encourage students to make the connection that
color and tell them I
H2O molecules were attracted to each other
will randomly pick a
similarly to the magnetic beads. (They know what
color to be the group
polar/NP bonds are) Review how this causes dipole,
rep. each time we
then discuss how this affects the way H2O interacts
share. Promotes
engagement because
between molecules.)
they have to listen to
7. Explain that this attraction between molecule is an
group mates and be
example of intermolecular forces. The bonds that
prepared to share
we previously learned about (ionic and covalent)
groups ideas.
are intramolecular forces. (inside)

Evaluate:
- Show students another example of molecule
interacting. Ask them to decide where inter/intra
molecular forces are present.

4. Provide students
enough but not too
much time to discuss
so they do not get
distracted with new
convos.

How did you/How might you differentiate for student READINESS, INTEREST< or LEARNING
PROFILE in this lesson?
I differentiated for student readiness by beginning with a tangible example of something that has
forces between it (magnetic beads) purposefully so that could be used as a visual when discussing
molecules. I also encouraged students to draw what they see happening in case some did not have
the vocabulary to describe it but instead could visually represent it. Finally, I encouraged student
collaboration and student participation so that students had greater opportunities for metal
engagement. When encouraging student participation, I told everyone they may have to share out
their groups ideas and they were aware of this before the group conversation. This encourages all
students the ability to share because they may not have something they feel confident about at first
but after discussing with a group and preparing an answer, they are more ready to share an idea.