Practice Quiz: Modeling and Kinetics (Actual Quiz on Wednesday,

September 23)
1. What is one research based advantage of using modeling-based instruction?
Real-life situations connections, takes activity to the student,
Model based learning designed to help students adapt, refine, and modify
many of the concepts they already have, and fine new ideas to apply to a
problem.
2. What are the six principles upon which modeling should be based?

The model construction principle: Does the task put the students in a situation where they
recognize the need to develop a model for interpreting the givens goals and possible solution
processes in a complex problem solving situation?
The reality or meaningfulness principle Could this happen in a real life situation
The self-assessment principle Does the problem statement clearly indicate appropriate criteria
for assessing the usefulness of alternative solutions? Will the students know when they are
finished with the problem? is the purpose clear
The construct documentation principle Will responding to the question require students to reveal
explicitly how they are thinking about the situation by revealing how they took into account the
givens goals and possible solution paths?
The construct shareability/reusability principle Is the model that is developed useful only to the
person who developed it and applicable only to the particular situation presented in the problem,
or does it provide a way of thinking that is shareable, transportable, easily modifiable, and
reusable?
The effective prototype principle: Does the solution provide a useful prototype, metaphor, or
"tool" for interpreting other situations?
3. Circle all way(s) in which a model in science education has been described:
a. A model is a representation of an idea, object, event, process, or
system that concentrates attention on certain aspects of the system.
(True)
b. A model is a mental entity that people construct (True)
c. A model a simplified or idealized description or conception of a
particular system, situation, or process. (True)
d. Models can be physical representations, such as symbols, equations,
graphs, and diagrams or mental representations, such as simulations.
(True)
All are right
4. What are three factors that can affect the rate of a reaction?

Physical State of the Reactants, surface area of a solid reactant,

concentration of reactants, temperature, presence of a catalyst,
5. Briefly explain BOTH PARTS of the Collision Model
In a chemical reaction, bonds are broken (always endothermic) and new
bonds are formed (always exothermic) molecules only react if they collide
with each other
6. Reaction Rate is defined as _______change reactant concentration / change
time____________________________________________.
Reaction Rate is change in concentration of either reactants or products as a
function of time.
Chapter 4 Model Notes
-Model: A simplified or idealized description or conception of a particular system,
situation, or process, often in mathematical terms
Can be in mathematical terms that is put forward as a basis for theoretical or
empirical understanding,
Conceptual or mental representation of something.
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Model can be a verb to devise a model or simplified description of a

phenomenon/system.

-modeling to describe attempts to construct a model of a system.

Model
-Representation of an idea, object, event, process, or system which concentrates
attention on certain aspects of the system
-Mental models represent significant aspects of our physical and social world and
we manipulate elements of these models when we think, plan, and try to explain
events in the world.
- Model relates to a targets system or phenomenon with which we have a
common experience or set of experiences.
- Models are mental entities that people construct with which they reason . all of
our knowledge depends on our ability to construct models.