High
School Unit
Purpose: To enhance the information
presented in the middle school unit and to introduce students to basic
methods of crystallography.
b)Classification
of minerals
c)Basic
structures and repeating units
d)Tessellations
e)Terms
2.Growth
factors
3.GrowingcrystalsGrowing
Crystals Examples
of Crystals Grown by Students
4.View
and qualitatively identify crystal structuresUnit
Cell Lesson
5.Quantitatively
solve structures from sample data Using
X-Shell
6.Confirm
crystal structures with modern bonding theories Bonding
Lesson
7.Possible
Integration Integration
Ideas
a)Biology-natural
symmetry
b)English-poetry
c)Music-rhythm
and patterns
d)Art
lessons Snowflake
Lesson
8.Unit
Exam
National Science Content
Standards
Grades 9-12: Addressed
by Unit
A.
Science as Inquiry
1. Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
2. Understandings about scientific inquiry
B.
Physical Science
1. Structure of atoms
2. Structure and properties of matter
3. Motions and forces
4. Conservation of energy and increase in disorder
5. Interactions of energy and matter
C.
Science and Technology
1. Abilities of technological design
2. Understandings about science and technology
D.
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
1. Natural resources
E.
History and Nature of Science
1. Nature of scientific knowledge