What is matter?
What are the four states of matter? (be sure to include information on their volume and shape) Give examples of each. Draw /find pictures that represent each and label.
http://www.dmturner.org/Teacher/Library/4thText/MatPart4.html
What are the parts of an atom? Talk about protons neutrons and electrons – where they are located and their charge.
How are elements organized in the periodic table? How do you find the number of protons, electrons and neutrons an element possesses?
What is an isotope?
**Print or draw some diagrams to help explain your information.
http://education.jlab.org/atomtour/listofparticles.html
http://www.chem4kids.com/files/atom_intro.html
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/textbook/atoms.html
What is a chemical compound?
How do covalent bonds form? How do ionic bonds form? What is a hydrogen bond? Give examples of each type of compound with labeled pictures/drawings.
http://staff.jccc.net/PDECELL/chemistry/bonds.html
What makes water a unique molecule?
What are mixtures? What is a solution? Include and explanation of a solute and solvent. What is a suspension?
What does pH measure?
**Print or draw some diagrams to help explain your information.
http://www.chem4kids.com/files/matter_mixture.html
What are carbohydrates and lipids. Include their structure, their monomers (what they are made of), examples and why they are needed by living things.
http://faculty.clintoncc.suny.edu/faculty/michael.gregory/files/Bio%20101/Bio%20101%20Lectures/Biochemistry/biochemi.htm
What are Nucleic Acids and Proteins. Include their structure, their monomers (what they are made of), examples and why they are needed by living things.
http://faculty.clintoncc.suny.edu/faculty/michael.gregory/files/Bio%20101/Bio%20101%20Lectures/Biochemistry/biochemi.htm
What are enzymes?
How do they work? (Lock and key model; discuss active site, substrates and products)
Discuss their effect on the activation energy of a reaction.
**Print or draw some diagrams to help explain your information.
http://www.lewport.wnyric.org/JWANAMAKER/animations/Enzyme%20activity.html