Week 16 · Term Two · One inspectable hall
Find the chemistry inside a museum: how fire turned yellow earth into red paint, why bronze beat copper, what makes old glass weep, how light fades a painting, and how to write a label that only says what the tests show.
Monday sorts physical from chemical changes in making a paint. Tuesday calculates what bronze is made of and why it mattered. Wednesday uses glass recipes to diagnose a failing bead. Thursday plans a display inside a light budget. Friday writes a museum label with evidence and limits.
25 minutes
Chemistry · Making a red paint
Tell a physical change from a chemical change by looking for a new substance with new properties, and account for the mass that left as water vapor.
Make
A paint-making record
Museum handoff: The paint record is filed. Tomorrow the hall turns to metal.
25 minutes
Metals · Bronze is an alloy
Explain that an alloy is a mixture of metals made from natural ores, calculate its percent composition, and connect its new properties to how people used it.
Make
A alloy test card
Museum handoff: The alloy card is filed. Tomorrow a glass bead is in trouble.
25 minutes
Glass · What the recipe does
Explain the job of each ingredient in glass and use composition data to diagnose why one object is breaking down.
Make
A glass condition report
Museum handoff: The condition report is filed. Tomorrow you decide how the hall lights its paintings.
25 minutes
Preservation · Light adds up
Explain that light energy absorbed by pigments causes fading, calculate exposure as brightness × time, and pick a plan that protects the object while keeping it on view.
Make
A display plan
Museum handoff: The display plan is filed. Tomorrow you write the label visitors will read.
30 minutes
Explanatory writing · The museum label
Write a short explanatory text that teaches one accurate science idea, uses evidence, and leaves out claims the evidence cannot support.
Make
A Museum interpretation panel
Museum handoff: The panel is filed. The hall now explains real science in words a visitor can read, without claiming more than the tests show.
The panel uses only work entered here. It is a family record of this week’s work, not a grade, an attendance record, or proof of mastery.
