1. 2/2/12 A/B Day
LEQ: How can chemicals impact human
health?
1. What is a chemical reaction?
C3H8 + 5 O2  4 H2O + 3 CO2
2. What are the reactants in the above
reaction?
3. What are the products in the above reaction?
4. If there are 15.7 grams of reactants in a
chemical reaction, what is the mass of the
products?
5. What is a precipitate?

2. Track your progress!
-1 = 96 -9 = 64 -17 = 32
-2 = 92 -10 = 60 -18 = 28
-3 = 88 -11 = 56 -19 = 24
-4 = 84 -12 = 52 -20 = 20
-5 = 80 -13 = 48 -21 = 16
-6 = 76 -14 = 44 -22 = 12
-7 = 72 -15 = 40 -23 = 8
-8 = 68 -16 = 36 -24 = 4

3. Agenda:
1.Practice material from
last class
2.Begin new LEQ!

4. Let’s Practice:
Chemical Reactions and
the Law of Conservation
of Matter

5. Today’s LEQ: How can chemicals impact
human health?
By the end of today, you should be able to…
1. Describe how chemicals can harm or help
human health
2. Examine the symptoms of some common
diseases and use symptoms to come up with a
diagnosis

6. Focus Vocabulary
95. Carcinogen
96. FAS

7. Welcome to Medical School!

8. Disease Notes
Cancer
Birth Defects
Heart Disease
Kidney Disease
Diabetes
Autoimmune
Disease
Asthma

9. 1.Diagnosis Justification
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10. 1. You and your partner have 15 minutes to
read the information included in your medical
school curriculum.
2. After you finish reading about each
disease, answer the discussion questions with
your partner!
3. In your notebook, write FOUR KEY FACTS
about each disease!
4. Once you finish, RAISE YOUR HAND!

12. Summarizer:
Number your paper 1-5 (don’t skip lines!)

13. 1. Which chemical has been
identified as a cause of heart
disease?
A. Uric Acid C. Radon
B. Cholesterol D. Glucose

14. 2. What is the cause of FAS?
a) Use of alcohol during pregnancy
b) Too much cholesterol in food
c) An elevated level of calcium in the blood
d) Overexposure to household cleaning
products

15. 3. What name is given to any
chemical that is shown to cause
cancer?
a) Oxidant
b) Contaminant
c) Carcinogen
d) Carbon-based

16. 4. Which disease is associated with insulin
and control of glucose?
a) Asthma
b) Kidney disease
c) Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
d) Diabetes

17. 5. Some of the earliest cases of cancer
were observed in factory workers who
applied a certain kind of paint on watches.
These workers would wet their
paintbrushes with their lips. What would
be evidence that this paint caused the
cancer?
a) The paint contained bacteria that infected the
workers
b) The paint contained chemicals that caused cell
mutations
c) The paint contained viruses that broke down the
workers’ immune systems
d) The paint contained molecules that interfered with
the body’s ability to produce insulin