Do Now!On your handout, please write some observations from this painting from 17th century Europe. What attitudes do you think society had about “scientists”? How do you know?

--After Do Now, place HW in the HW folder.

UNIT 1: Introduction to MatterLecture 1: MONEY, MONEY, MONEY!

AIM and OBJECTIVESAIM: Can humans make gold out of thin air?

OBJECTIVES:• KIPPsters will be able to

explain the historical origins of modern chemistry.

• KIPPsters will be able to compare and contrast alchemy and modern chemistry.

AGENDA• Silent Do Now [3 mins.]• Aim/ Objectives/ Agenda [1

min.]• Share-out Do Now [2 mins.]• Review procedures [8 mins.]• Burning money demonstration [8

mins.]• Historical understanding of

chemistry [8 mins.]• Mini-Lab making gold? [20 mins.]• Close-out [1]

SHARE-OUTWhat attitudes do you think society had about “scientists”? How do you know?

SHARE-OUT EXPECTATIONS:- Track the speaker- One mic

“I can make a dollar bill come back to life after lighting it on fire.”

• PARTNER DISCUSSION: In 30 SECONDS discuss whether or not this statement is true or false and EXPLAIN WHY!

• WRITE A PREDICTION: Write a prediction as to what will happen when the dollar bill is lit on fire.

• Now, OBSERVE: Write observations in the space provided!

WRITE (2 minutes)• FORM A HYPOTHESIS: Why do you think this

happened?

Share your hypothesis with a partner!

(3 minutes)

Mini-Lab: can metals be made from thin air?

What is chemistry?

In order to understand chemistry, you must understand alchemy (LISTENING)

• Turning everyday objects into gold• Obsession in Europe in the 16th and

17th century• A lot of literature was written about

how metals formed in Earth• Artistic representation of alchemists

portray the futility of their quest• Many alchemists were funded by the

royal families• People believed that alchemy could

present the cure to the bubonic plague

WRITE (2 minutes)

In your own words:• What was alchemy?• When was alchemy practiced?• What was the motivation for alchemy?• What were people’s attitude towards

alchemy?• Was alchemy successful?

What is chemistry?

What is chemistry?

• Study of the changes in matter• Really exploring how to change the properties of

a substance• FIRE!• Started as a philosophical debate about the basic

“elements” that made up the natural world– Earth, wind, water, fire

• Experimental discovery of the elements

CW: WRITE (2 minutes)

• What are the similarities and differences between alchemy and chemistry?

• How did the study of alchemy lead to the understanding of modern chemistry?

Share your theory with a partner!

(2 minutes)SHARE-OUT

Back to the Lab!• Directions: Answer the following questions based on your activity.

Please answer in COMPLETE SENTENCES. 1. Compare the materials before and after you put them together.

2. If you think about the “old stuff” as the aluminum foil and copper chloride, do you think “new stuff” was made when you put them together? Explain your ideas.

3. How would an alchemist explain the results differently than a chemist?

Close-out quote of the day

“A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.” ~Max Gluckman, Politics, Law and Ritual, 1965

HW

• Some pre-reading from your textbook!