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  • College week presentations
  • Begin Chemical Reactions unit; Investigative Phenomena question: Why do gems have different properties than metals?
  • Video: Tool of the Trade; take notes about what you observed
  • Brainstorm (pair share): What did you observe? How do the gems in the bowl differ from one another? Which properties are determined by the kinds of atoms in the gems’ molecules?
  • CER; brainstorm questions about the phenomenon
  • Read pages 155-160