Balancing Equations and Naming Products - Alternative Assessment

This is meant to be an alternative form of assessment to MCQ problems. Includes all necessary student materials, a grading rubric, and an answer key.

Students work with a PhET lab to balance chemical equations and then must name the types of equations (two portions). Students then provide either the name or the formula for compounds given the alternative, state whether the compound is ionic or covalent, and determine the number of atoms in the balanced equation. Finally, students address a culturally relevant relation to the information by creating a naming system for future generations based upon their family heritage.