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NYSSLS Chemistry Materials

Click here for OLD year 1 materials!
​This is a link to my rough planning notes for this year. 
They will be updated periodically :)

Unit 1: Is it Phlogiston? (Measurement & Gases) Updated 10/2025 
Analyze data to support a claim that the combines gas law describes the relationship among volume, pressure, and temperature for a sample of an ideal gas.  [HS-PS1-9]


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Notes about my instructional practices:

  • I am a NYS teacher who has been studying NGSS and NYSSLS for almost ten years via online classes through STANYS, San Diego State University, and other Professional Development including the NYS Master Teacher Program and workshops with Paul Anderson. But I have no direct insight to the test writing at the NYS level and just taking my best shot at this as anyone else :)
  • NYSSLS Chemistry is a year long course designed to introduce students to concepts in chemistry. I follow the New York State Standards. 
  • I also utilized AMTA, POGIL, inquiry labs, and simulations. 
  • Most packets have a blend of my own introductory questions, old Regents Questions to test content knowledge, and new cluster practice titled "Assessment Task". 
    • ​The "Think Tank Questions" are essentially team do now questions to get the students to start thinking about the topic. My students are always seated in teams of 3-4 (excepts for formal assessments). I like to have these do-now questions to have multiple minds to help them solve the new thinking concepts. 
    • We then move onto activities, POGIL, labs, and discussions to help sense-making. 
    • The "Check Your Understanding" questions are usually regents questions selected to see how the students are progressing. I often have students complete it in class, in their teams. 
  • The Chemistry Interactive Learning Log (chill log) is used as a way to help students identify important sub topics to take notes about . They take notes during class discussions, labs, activities etc.  I don't provide formal notes because I believe the students should create their own notes (check out the book "Building Thinking Classrooms" -it changed my world!) I collect these logs throughout the unit critique their work. I add the grade to our school district's participation grade.  In unit 1 I model what I expect from good note keeping with the chill log 1. After that, students are often reminded to take notes for their "future self" in class after we learn new information and perform labs and activities.
  • I assess students consistently with small quizzes almost weekly and larger exams twice a quarter. I give one "mock" Regents exam in early June and I count it towards their class grade. We review it and use other recent exams to review before the Regents Exam.
  • Please read more about my philosophies on the "About Ms. Drury" section and drop down pages. 

Unit 2: Is Heat a Fluid? (Heat) Updated 10/2025 
Create a computational model to calculate the change in the energy of one component in a system when the change in energy of the other component(s) and energy flows in and out of the system are known. [HS-PS3-1]​


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Unit 3: What Makes Things Stick? (Matter, Attractive Forces, & Redox) Updated 11/19/2025
Use evidence to illustrate  that some chemical reactions involve the transfer of electrons  as an energy conversion occurs within a system. [HS-PS1-12] 
Develop and use a model of two objects interacting through electric or magnetic fields to illustrate the forces between objects and the changes in energy of the objects due to the interaction. [HS-PS3-5]


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Unit 4: Where Does EMR Come From? (Atomic Theory & Periodicity) Updated 12/5/25
Construct and revise an explanation for the outcome of a simple chemical reaction based on the outermost electron states of atoms, trends in the periodic table, and knowledge of the patterns of chemical properties. [HS-PS1-2]
Use the periodic table as a model to predict the relative properties of elements based on the patterns of electrons in the outermost energy level of atoms. [HS-PS1-1]
Evaluate the validity and reliability of claims in published materials of the effects that different frequencies of electromagnetic radiation have when absorbed by matter.  [HS-PS4-4]
Develop and use a model of two objects interacting through electric or magnetic fields to illustrate the forces between objects and the changes in energy of the objects due to the interaction. [HS-PS3-5]


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Here is a link to the other periodic tables for the comparison task
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My honors class will complete the "H e- configurations packet"
​in addition to the H Unit 4 class packet
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Unit 5: How Do We Fight Stains? (Bonding, Forces, & Solutions) Updated 11/20/2025
Plan and conduct an investigation to gather evidence to compare the structure of substances at the bulk scale to infer the strength of electrical forces between particles. [HS-PS1-3]
Develop a model to illustrate that the release or absorption of energy from a chemical reaction system depends upon the changes in total bond energy. [HS-PS1-4]
Use evidence to support claims regarding  the formation, properties and behaviors of solutions at bulk scales. [HS-PS1-10]


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I use this in class without sound for the "Liquid Demo" showing why "Like Dissolves Like" and what "like" actually refers to.

Unit 6: How Do We Ensure Proper Medicinal Prescriptions? (Moles & Reactions) Updated 11/21/25
Use mathematical representations to support the claim that atoms, and therefore mass, are conserved during a chemical reaction.  [HS-PS1-7]
Apply scientific principles and evidence to provide an explanation about the effects of changing the temperature or concentration of the reacting particles on the rate at which a reaction occurs. [HS-PS1-5]
Use a model to illustrate how photosynthesis transforms light energy into stored chemical energy. [HS-LS1-5]


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Unit 7: Body Systems (Acid Base Equilibrium)
Apply scientific principles and evidence to provide an explanation about the effects of changing the temperature or concentration of the reacting particles on the rate at which a reaction occurs. [HS-PS1-5]
Refine the design of a chemical system by specifying a change in conditions that would produce increased amounts of products at equilibrium. [HS-PS1-6]
Create a computational model to calculate the change in the energy of one component in a system when the change in energy of the other component(s) and energy flows in and out of the system are known. [HS-PS3-1]
Plan and conduct an investigation  to compare properties and behaviors of acids and bases. [HS-PS1-11]


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Unit 8: Alternative Energy (Redox & Nuclear)
Use evidence to illustrate that some chemical reactions involve the transfer of electrons as an energy conversion occurs within a system. [HS-PS1-12]
Develop models to illustrate the changes in the composition of the nucleus of the atom and the energy released during the processes of fission, fusion, and radioactive decay. [HS-PS1-8]
Communicate scientific and technical information about why the molecular-level structure is important in the functioning of designed materials. [HS-PS2-6]


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