Chemistry of Everyday Things

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 11.05.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Goals & Objectives
  3. Background Research
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Annotated Bibliography
  7. Student Reading List
  8. End Notes
  9. Appendix 1: Implementing State Standards
  10. Appendix 2: Bubble Formulas
  11. Appendix 3: Marble Lather Picture
  12. Appendix 4: How Soap Removes Dirt
  13. Appendix 5: How to Make Soap

Soap: Clean for the Environment or Just Us?

Arlene Burns-Moguel

Published September 2011

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Teaching Strategies

For this curriculum unit, students will demonstrate the properties of soaps and detergents with a surfactant activity, polarity demonstration, and pH testing. Students will focus on balancing the chemical components/equations, in order to construct a chemical framework illustrating how soap cleans. The students will research to compare and contrast cleaning product labels and use their green knowledge to draw conclusions based on research findings. They will then create their own soap and personal care package with emphasis on creating eco-friendly products. These teaching strategies are aligned with Marzano et al.'s nonlinguistic representations, which encourage creating graphic representations, making physical models, and generating mental pictures, drawing pictures and pictographs, and engaging in kinesthetic activity. 2 These teaching strategies will also utilize differentiated learning and grouping as well as thinking maps, which are practices adapted by the school's professional learning community.

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