MS-PS1-3

SCUSD NGSS Curriculum Guide ====**MS-PS1-3:** ** Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society. ** [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on natural resources that undergo a chemical process to form the synthetic material. Examples of new materials could include new medicine, foods, and alternative fuels.] [//Assessment Boundary: Assessment is limited to qualitative information.//] ====

Science Background for the Teacher:
Refining and purifying are different from making a synthetic product.

Key Vocabulary:

 * [key vocab term for this performance expectation] || [key vocab term for this performance expectation] || [key vocab term for this performance expectation] || [key vocab term for this performance expectation] ||
 * synthetic || alternative fuels || natural resources || bias ||

Possible Assessments (formative and/or summative):
Read 2 articles about making polymers. Describe the pros and cons to the polymer industry.

Key Student Activity:
Reading articles and arguing a side in a debate or in a persuasive essay. Models can be included in the final product.

Key Teacher Demo/Activity:
Teachers will need to discuss bias in articles and media. Teachers will need to demonstrate how to analyze the articles and media and write an analysis from a scientific point of view.

Common Student Misconceptions:
Students think everything on the TV and internet is true.

Things to Avoid/Correct:
Wikipedia should not be used for research in the classroom. Use .edu sites. Try to avoid for profit sites.

====Other Resources (text, video, simulations, activities, models, etc..): ====

Tree octopus article or articles from The Onion to exemplify that not everything on the internet is true.