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S.Y. 2022-2023

Subject: SCIENCE Grade Level: 7

Unit Topic: DIVERSITY OF MATERIALS IN THE ENVIRONMENT Quarter: 1

UNIT STANDARDS AND COMPETENCIES DIAGRAM

LEARNING PLAN
EXPLORE

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 This unit is about exploring the different roles that Matter plays in our everyday
lives.

Consider these questions: Why is it important to consider the properties of

solutions, substances and mixture of a material in making a product?

Map of conceptual change: KWHL Chart

Instruction: Before you begin this lesson, fill in the first three columns of the KWHL
Chart below. It will help you check your understanding of the lesson. You will be
asked to fill in the information in different sections of this module. Write your
answers in your activity sheet.
Matter
(Diversity of materials)
What you What you HOW will you What I have
KNOW WANT to know find out LEARNED

LEARNING
COMPETENCY FIRM-UP (ACQUISITION)
LC1 ELTS7MT-Ij-18 Activity 1: Web Surfing
Instruction: Open the website below to understand the characteristics/properties
Identify the
of solution. The web page will give you a complete overview on the characteristics,
components of a
properties and kinds of solution.
solution.
http://www.chem4kids.com/files/matter_solution.html also open your book
(Exploring Life Through Science 7 Second Edition) on page 70-72 and read the
information provided. The picture below is what you should see when opening the
Learning Target: link.
I can identify that
solutions are seen and
used every day.

After reading, answer these questions in your activity sheet:

1. Can anything be made into solution?
2. Can anything change a solution?

Exercise No.1: Comprehension Check

To check your understanding on the articles that you have read about the
solution, answer the following questions briefly in your activity sheet.

1. What are the two components of solution? Differentiate one from the other.
2. Are all solutions in liquid form? Is it possible to have a solution in solid or
gaseous form? Give examples.
3. How do you make solutions? How are solutions formed?
4. What is solubility?

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LC2 Added Activity 2: Concepts Reading
competency Instruction: Read Concentration of Solutions on page 76-77 of your book (Exploring
Life Through Science 7 Second Edition) then answer the questions below in your
Classify the activity sheet.
concentration of
solutions. 1. Can a saturated solution be made into supersaturated one?
2. Can an unsaturated solution be converted to saturated one?

Here are some of the materials which we could classify as saturated, unsaturated
and supersaturated solution. Hot cake syrup and honey are saturated solutions of
Learning Target: sugar. Soak solution used in making “itlog na pula” is an example of saturated salt
I can determine the solution. Nestea Juice, Zesto, Tang and other tetra packed beverages are examples
different of unsaturated solutions. Pineapple jam used as sandwich spread is an example of
concentrations of a supersaturated solution that it melts when heated but crystallized when
refrigerated.
solution.

Aqueous solutions are unsaturated if more solute can be dissolved at

the existing temperature and pressure. If the maximum amount of
solute is in equilibrium with undissolved solid, the solution is
saturated. If a hot, saturated solution is prepared and allowed to cool
without losing any solute, the solution is supersaturated.

You may also open these video links for additional references:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdedxfhcpWo&feature=endscreen&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0nNvsB_fOw&NR=1&feature=fvwp

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Exercise No.2: Comprehension Check
Read the statements below and choose your answer to the given choices. Write
only the letter of your answer in your activity sheet.

A. Saturated B. Supersaturated C. Unsaturated

___ 1. This solution can still dissolve additional solvent.

___ 2. Solute dissolved.
___ 3. No more solute can be dissolve.
___ 4. The added crystal started the crystallization.
___ 5. Crystals slowly appear.

Scaffold 1
Activity 3: Oil and Water Do Not Mix

Introduction:
Lipids are substances found in plant and animal tissues that are soluble in
organic solvents (contains carbon and hydrogen), but are insoluble in water. Fats
and oils are subclasses of lipids and the most abundant in nature. Fats are solid at
room temperature, while oil is liquid at room temperature.
Your diet should make up less than 30% of edible lipids for health reasons.
Recently, the role of lipids in the diet has received a great deal of attention due to
the apparent connection of saturated fats and blood cholesterol to arterial and
other heart diseases. The National Cancer Institute has recommended that
consumption of fats should be reduced since a correlation between high fat intake
and some forms of cancer has been established.
If two liquids form one homogeneous layer when mixed, the resulting solution
is described as miscible. Usually, the word “dissolve” applies to a solid being
dissolved in a liquid, thus, turning it into a one-phase liquid solution. If two layers
form, the resulting solution is described as immiscible. In this activity, you will test
the solubility of fats and oils in a variety of solvents.

Objective:
Determine which solvents can dissolve cooking oil and butter

Materials Needed:
Cooking oil, butter, water, vinegar, soap water (5 drops of dishwashing detergent in
5tsp water), teaspoon, 2 glasses, small towel.

Procedure:
1. Place 1 tsp of cooking oil in the first glass, and 1 tsp of butter in the second.
Add 5tsp of water to each glass and swirl each mixture.
2. Observe if substances mix homogeneously with water. Record your
observation on the activity sheet.
3. Wash the glass thoroughly with soap and water. Dry them well with a clean
towel.
4. Repeat step 1, but instead of water, use other solvents. These solvents are
vinegar and soap water. Observe whether the substances form a
homogeneous solution with the given solvents. Report it as miscible or
immiscible.

Observations:
Substance Water Vinegar Soap Water

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 Oil
Butter

POST-LABORATORY QUESTIONS:
1. What is a solvent?
2. Are fats and oils miscible in similar solvents?
3. What is the role of soap in the water-oil mixture?

Conclusion:
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

Rubric
10 points Demonstrates complete understanding of the problem and
provided a comprehensive explanation.
7 points Demonstrates considerable understanding of the problem and
provided an explanation.
5 points Demonstrates partial understanding of the problem and
provided an explanation.
0 No response was stated.

LC3 S7MT-Ie-f-4 Activity 4: Mixtures vs Pure Substances

Distinguish mixtures This lesson will help you encounter and study many of the properties of matter and
from substances how matter can change from one form to another. You will refine your
based on a set of understanding of matter, and explore and develop an appreciation of how various
properties. types of matter are important in your daily lives.

Instruction: Open your book (Exploring Life Through Science 7 Second Edition) on
page 48-54 and read all the necessary information about Pure Substances and
Learning Target: Mixtures. If you have an internet connection, you may access these links
I can distinguish pure http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lUHd9vc5es
substances from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWZlICXw3Ng. The pictures below are what
mixtures. you should see when opening the links.

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 Exercise No.3: Check for Understanding
In this check for understanding you will identify the condition of a given statement
either physical change or chemical change. This will enhance your comprehension
about the nature of the diversity of matter in the environment. Write your answer
in your activity sheet.

Physical Chemical
Change
Change Change
Sugar dissolves in ethanol.
Hydrochloric acid reacts with magnesium to
produce hydrogen gas.
A pile of leaves is burned.
Water boils to form steam.
Water is heated and changed to steam.
A car fender gets rusts.
Ethyl alcohol evaporates.
Ice cube melting.
Lemon juice converts milk to curds and whey.
A female mosquito uses your blood as food from
which she produces her eggs.
LC4 S7MT-Ig-h-5 Activity 5: Webpage reading: Elements and Compounds
Recognize that Instruction: Open these links
substances are http://www.chemteam.info/Matter/ElementsAndCompounds.html and
classified into http://www.ivyroses.com/Chemistry/GCSE/Elements-Mixtures-Compounds.php.
elements and This will lead into discussing elements and compounds as a general classification
compounds. scheme for all matter. The pictures below are what you should see upon opening
the links.

Learning Target:
I can recognize the
difference between an
element and a
compound.

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 1. What is your idea about “an element is to a compound as bricks are to a
house”
2. What are your insights about the analogy between mixture and compounds?
3. How do elements and compounds affect life and nonlife in the environment?
4. Do you have similar characteristics of the compound or element in the
community?
5. Why there are different forms of matter and what causes these changes?

Exercise No. 4: Comprehension Check

Let’s do a comprehension check on what you just read. Write the letter of your
answer in your activity sheet.
1. All living things contain the element ______
A. helium C. copper
B. sodium D. carbon
2. The chemical element that is most abundant in the human body is ______
A. nitrogen C. carbon
B. iron D. oxygen
3. The chemical formula for water, H2O, means that each water molecule

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 contains _______
A. two hydrogen atoms and two oxygen atoms.
B. two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
C. two hydrogen atoms and zero oxygen atoms.
D. one hydrogen atom and two oxygen atoms.
4. A group of atoms that acts as a unit is called a(n) _______
A. mixture C. element.
B. molecule D. compound.
5. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Elements are the only kind of matter that can be properly
classified as pure substances.
B. Only pure matter is classified as a substance, which
includes only elements and compounds.
C. All mixtures can easily be identified as impure, since the
components are always easily recognizable.
D. All solutions consist of a solid dissolved in a liquid.

Scaffold 2
Activity 6: Visualizing Matter

Introduction:
Elements are substances that are made up of only one type of atom and cannot
be further separated into simpler substances. Compounds are substances that are
made up of more than one type of atom and can be separated into two or more
simpler substances by chemical reactions. Mixtures are made up of two or more
substances that are physically combined. In this activity, you will visualize the
chemical concepts of pure substances and mixtures, and understand some of the
specialized language that chemists use. You will also visualize the reason for and
the process of writing formulas.

Objectives:
1. Create models of pure substances and mixtures
2. Differentiate a pure substance from a mixture, and an element from a
compound in terms of structure and composition

Materials Needed:
Clay or Beads (different colors) (choose which is available to you)
Strings (yarn or tie wire)
Clear plastic cellophane

Procedure:
1. Assemble the clay or beads of different colors using a string to connect
them. For example, X is a red bead and Y is a blue bead. Each color
represents one atom of an element. If the color is only one, then it is an
element. One X means a monoatomic element and X 2 means a diatomic
element. Two or more colors in a set means it is a compound, while two
different sets together means it is a mixture. Place the sets into a plastic
cellophane.
2. Create eight sample of beads per set. Label the sample cellophane only with
letters A to H. Follow the pattern shown in the table below.
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 Sample Bag Set Pattern
A X X
B X2 X-X
C XY X-Y
D X2Y X-Y-X
E X2Y2 X-X-Y-Y
F Y2 and X Y-Y and X
G X2Y2 X-Y-X-Y and X-X-Y-Y
H X2Y and XY X-Y-X and X-Y
3. For each cellophane, determine first whether the contents represent a pure
substance or a mixture.
4. If the contents of the bag represent a mixture, determine what the mixture
is made of. For example, a mixture of elements and compounds. For the
pure substances, determine whether the contents represent an element or
a compound.
5. Take a picture of your final output and attach it in your activity sheet upon
submission.

Results:
Sample Bag Pure Substance or Mixture Element(s) or Compound(s)
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H

POST-LABORATORY QUESTIONS:
1. How does the physical and chemical properties of sample A to H differ?
2. Based from the patterns/models of pure substances and mixtures that you
have assembled, how do mixtures and pure substances differ? How do
elements and compounds differ?
3. Why are pure substances homogeneous while mixtures are heterogeneous?

Conclusion:
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________

Rubric
10 points Demonstrates complete understanding of the problem and
provided a comprehensive explanation.
7 points Demonstrates considerable understanding of the problem and
provided an explanation.
5 points Demonstrates partial understanding of the problem and
provided an explanation.
0 No response was stated.
LEARNING DEEPEN (MAKE MEANING)
COMPETENCY
LC5 S7MT-ID-2 Activity 7: Video Analysis

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Investigate properties Instruction: To have a deeper understanding about the concentration of solutions,
of unsaturated or watch the videos below then answer the questions in your activity sheet.
saturated solutions
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hfd6KwZLPM

Learning Targets:
I can determine that
change is inevitable.

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTIzMaSDZ3k&feature=related

1. Can a saturated solution reproduce its solute?

2. What kind of solution has the ability to crystallize and form again
the solid solute?

REMEMBER!!
Water is considered universal solvent.

LC6 Analyze mixtures Activity 8: Pure Substances or Mixture?

from pure substances Instruction: Open the link below https://www.youtube.com/watch?
based on a set of v=kPRPU1OioDE. Stop it every now and then so you can take down notes. When
properties. done, answer the following questions in your activity sheet. Below is the
screenshot of the link.

Learning Targets:
I can determine that
some elements in
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their pure form are
not useful to humans
but become beneficial
when combined with
other elements.

A. As you review the video, classify the following as pure substances or as

mixtures:
Material Pure Substances Mixtures
air
gasoline
grain alcohol
water
sugar
gold
mercury
oxygen
salt water

B. Direction: Fill in the Venn diagram to compare and contrast pure substances
and mixtures.

Pure Substances Mixtures

Process Questions:
1. Based on your understanding, how will you categorize substances as pure
or mixture?
2. How is the term “pure” used in everyday life? How is this different from
how it is used in science?
3. What are the most important mixtures and pure substances you come in
contact with each day? Why do you think they are important?

LC7 Explain that pure Activity 9: Net Surfing

substances are Instruction: Open this link https://www.chemistrytutorials.org/content/matters-
classified into and-properties-of-matters/1-classification-of-matters this website offers an
elements and explanation about the classification of matter according to its composition.
compounds.

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Learning Targets:
I can explain that
understanding the
properties of
elements and
compounds is
beneficial in day to
day activities, can
save lives, and can
create new
products/materials.

Process Questions: Write down your answers in your activity sheet.

1. Can elements and compounds affect society?
2. What are the relationship between a mixture, pure substance, element, and
compound?
3. How are the classification of matter related to one another?

Scaffold 3: Writing a Plan

Activity 10: Waste-Reduction Plan
In this activity the learner will apply and demonstrates understanding of changes in
properties of matter and their benefits to one’s health and the environment.

Instruction: You are tasked to formulate a Segregation Plan or Recycling Plan that
will help address the litter problem that might be used to help reduce the waste in
your community. Your plan must be written in a paragraph form and must contain
a brief summary of the plan, how it will work, and how it will reduce/help address
the litter problem. Encode your plan in a short bond paper. You will be graded
based on the rubric below.

Commendable Promising Developing Beginning

Criteria
4 3 2 1
Purposes The report explains The report The report The report does
the key purposes of explains all of the explains some not refer to the
the plan and key purposes of key of the purposes of the
carryout schemes the plan. purposes of the plan.
that will help plan but not
address the litter quite complete.
and student’s
reflects deep
understanding.
Content Demonstrate Demonstrate Demonstrate Demonstrate
thorough knowledge considerable some knowledge limited
of content. knowledge of of content. knowledge of
content content.

Organization Presentation is Presentation Presentation has Presentation has

carefully organized provides some lapses on no evident
and provides evidence which the coherence of organization to
convincing evidence support the evidence to support
to support conclusions. support conclusion.
conclusions. conclusions.
.

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 Map of Conceptual Change: KWHL Chart
Instruction: After completing all the activities necessary in understanding this
lesson, you are now equipped with the knowledge about the diversity of the
materials in the environment. In this section, complete the KWHL chart below by
filling in the last column of the chart. You do not need to rewrite your previous
answers in the first three columns. Just fill in the last column. Write your answer in
your activity sheet.

Matter
(Diversity of materials)

What you What you HOW will you What I have

KNOW WANT to know find out LEARNED

Learning Competency TRANSFER

PERFORMANCE Transfer Goal: Students on their own and in the long run will be able to make a
STANDARD: The project proposal on how to prepare different concentrations of mixtures to
learners should be improve the quality of life.
able to prepare
different
concentrations of Performance Task
mixtures according to In your barangay, you observe that malnourished cases have been increasing due
uses and availability of to unknown causes. As the SK chairman, together with health barangay nutritionist,
materials. chairman, together with health barangay nutritionist, you were asked to make a
feeding program for the barangay officials. The program plan includes preparation
of mixture of different known concentrations in most efficient way without
sacrificing its quality to sustain quality life. Your program plan contains identifying
Learning Targets: the causes of malnourishment, formulating an output of the study by presenting
I can conclude that the findings/data results and recommending precautionary and health measures.
matter is wasted if it is The program will be evaluated according to its content, practicality, and
not used to its full organization.
capacity.

Analytic Rubric:
NEEDS
CRITERIA EXEMPLARY SATISFACTORY DEVELOPING
IMPROVEMENT
4 3 2
1
Demonstrate Demonstrate Demonstrate Does not have
s full knowledge of partial grasp of
knowledge required knowledge information
(more than content. of required and cannot
Content required) content and answer
with is able to questions
explanations answer only about subject.
and basic
elaboration. questions.

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 Materials list Materials list is Materials list Materials list is
is reasonable reasonable is not not reasonable.
Practicality and creative given reasonable
given resources. given
resources. resources.
Information Information in Difficult to No sequence
in logical, logical follow the and evidence of
interesting sequence presentation information.
Organization sequence which because the
which audience can sequence is
audience can follow. not well
follow. organized.

Self-Assessment: Synthesis Journal

Note: Write your answer in your activity sheet.

Synthesis Journal
This lesson was about
__________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
__________________. This is important because
____________________________
___________________________________________________________________.

Values Integration: Let’s Reflect!

How did you find the activities? How did the activities help you further understand
the changes in properties of matter become beneficial in human, and in
environment? What are your insights and values learned? Write down your
reflections on your activity sheet.
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________

EVALUATION
Instruction: Read each statement below and choose your answer from the choices.
Write only the letter of your answers in your activity sheet.
1. Sugar dissolves easily in water. Sugar is a __________
a. Solute c. solution
b. Solvent d. suspension
2. Water is a polar compound. Which of the following
will readily dissolve in water?
a. Starch c. fats
b. Salt d. aluminum

3. What is most likely to happen if more solute is added to an

unsaturated solution?
a. Added solute will no longer dissolve
b. Crystals will form
c. Added solute will readily dissolve
d. Added solute will just float at the top of the solution.

4. If the addition of a crystal to an aqueous solution causes the

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 dissolved solute to come out of the solution, the original solution is
________
a. saturated
b. unsaturated
c. super saturated
d. concentrated

5. A heterogeneous mixture differs from a solution because ________

a. a heterogeneous mixture is always solid.
b. a heterogeneous mixture consists of solids and liquids.
c. the different components can be easily identified in a
heterogeneous mixture.
d. a heterogeneous mixture can be separated by physical means
(changes), whereas a solution can only be separated by
chemical means (changes).

6. Which of the following contains three elements?

a. Argon, Magnesium, Phosphorus
b. Brass, Phosphorus, Potassium
c. Chlorine. Air, Nitrogen
d. Petrol, Alcohol, water

7. Rei is investigating the properties of several substances. He

prepared a beaker containing substances J, K, and L and filtered the
contents through a funnel into a flask. What term best describes
substances J, K, and L inside the beaker before Rei poured them
through the filter paper?
a. Mixture c. Solution
b. Compound d. Pure Substance

8. Which of the following statements is true of a compound?

a. Its constituents can be separated by physical methods.
b. Its constituents are present in fixed proportions.
c. Its properties are similar to those of its constituents.
d. It contains two or more elements.

9. Which one of the following sets contains an

element, a mixture and a compound?
a. Air, pure water, sodium chloride
b. Copper, air, copper (II) sulfate
c. Magnesium, lead, sulfate
d. Pure water, sulfate, magnesium

10. A homogeneous liquid which cannot be separated into components

by distillation but can be decomposed by electrolysis is classified as
a/an __________.
a. element C. solution
b. mixture D. substance

11. A sample of a salt and water solution is homogeneous throughout.

Is this sample a mixture or a pure substance?
a. a pure substance, since it is the same throughout
b. a mixture, because it can have a variable composition
c. a pure substance, because it has a definite composition
d. a mixture, because it has a fixed, definite composition

12. It is often difficult to decide if a change is physical or chemical, so

a certain clues will help you decide if a chemical change has
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 occurred. Which of the following statements below does NOT
possess a chemical change?
a. A change in color and/or odor
b. The release or absorption of energy
c. A change can be reversed easily
d. The formation of a solid in a liquid

13. How does a physical change differ from a chemical change?

a. New volumes are created in a physical change.
b. New materials are produced in a physical change.
c. The composition is unchanged in a physical change.
d. The change is reversible in a physical change.

14. Which of the following does not involve a chemical change?

a. cube of sugar in hot coffee C. exploding dynamite
b. tarnishing silver D. burning fire

15. Which of the following statements is true?

a. Elements are the only kind of matter that can be properly
classified as pure substances.
b. Only pure matter is classified as a substance, which includes
only elements and compounds.
c. All mixtures can easily be identified as impure, since the
components are always easily recognizable.
d. All solutions consist of a solid dissolved in a liquid.

16. A pure substance that cannot be decomposed into anything

simpler by chemical or physical means is called a (an)
__________________.
a. element C. compound
b. mixture D. isotope

17. Why is tap water or salt water classified as a

mixture, even though it is clear and colorless?
a. If you hold it very close to your eyes, you can see the different
particles moving around inside the water.
b. Any kind of matter that contains more than one element is a
mixture.
c. It contains at least two different substances or particles, and
can be separated by physical means.
d. The particles all combine in such a way that the only way they
can be separated is by a chemical reaction.

18. Substances composed of two or more atoms are:

a. element C. compound
b. mixture D. pure substance

19. Which substance in the following list is a compound?

a. salt B. carbon C. coffee D. paint

20. You are a sales representative of a new vitamin. You were invited
by the branch manager of a certain drugstore to explain to them
the composition and effects to the body of the said vitamin before
they purchase, how will you know that you have a good
presentation?
a. vocabulary, use of scientific terms, visual aids
b. purpose, content, and organization
c. mechanics, use of references, speaking voice
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