Due Date Reminders

By Friday, Dec 18th, turn in the Chemical Bonding Lab.
You can turn in the chapter 6 packet, but I extended the due date to after break if you need more time.
Please also turn in late work. There are several people missing the Reactivity of Halides lab and the chapter 5 packet.

Enjoy your break!
Ms. Hall

Ch 5 Test postponed and google classrooms info

You will take our Unit 3/Chapter 5 test on Thursday, Dec 10 - it has been postponed

Today, Dec 4 you will work on the ptable.com assignment on the chromebook lab, and this assignment will be finished up on Dec 8 in computer Lab 300.

Please turn in your ptable.com assignment through google classrooms, the codes to join are as follows:
1st period - 5ahiahr
3rd period - 738aukg
4th period - 2vro5x

powerpoint link for Tues, Dec 2 and review sheet link

Link to Periodic Table Slideshow slides 11 to 35

Link to Review Sheet for Unit 3 Test

Agenda for Tuesday, Nov 24th

1) warm-up: Read Lab
2) Turn in electron configurations packet and magnesium oxide lab report
3) Reactivity of Halides Lab - due Monday, 11/30
4) Homework: keep reading Chapter 5 and continue packet due Dec 8
5) Test on Unit 3: Periodic Table, Tuesday, Dec 8
6) Binder Check: Weds, Dec 2

Agenda for Friday, Nov 20

1) warm-up - study for 10 minutes
2) Unit 2 Test
3) Read chapter 5 - review due Tuesday, Dec 8th

Agenda Weds, Nov 18

1) warm-up: moles to atoms problem
2) Review for test, review sheet given out
3) Went over magnesium lab write-up, due Tuesday, 11/24
4) Electron configuration packet, due Tuesday 11/24

Agenda Monday, November 16

1) warm-up: Do all three types of electron configuration for O, S, and K.
2) Finish Hunting the Elements (see link on previous day's agenda)
3) Review Notes and learn how to do mass number.
Worksheet given out - due Wed, Nov 18
4) Reminder - unit test on Friday, Nov 20

Agenda Thursday, Nov 12

1) warm-up: Write the orbital diagram and the longhand electron configuration for Fluorine.
2) Watch NOVA Hunting the Elements and write 15 facts.
Link to Hunting the Elements
3) I will check the electron configurations homework on Monday.

Agenda, Monday, Nov 9

1) warm-up - Take notes on Crashcourse #5 - Electron Configuration
Link to Crashcourse #5
2) Electron configuration notes
3) 2 electron configuration practice sheets - due Thurs, Nov 12

Agenda Thursday, Nov 5

1) warm-up - Read Flame Test Lab and define excited and ground state electrons.
2) Flame Test Lab
Link to flame test video
3) Electron Configuration Notes

Agenda Tues, Nov 3

1) warm-up:Mole Conversions Video and take notes
2) Go over conversions quiz
3) New Lab Groups
4) Mole Practice Sheet in new groups

Links to sites to practice conversions

Try going to these sites and practicing conversions and checking your answer. As my email indicated we will review this material next week and a re-take will be available to all students who got a C or below.

Mass-mole conversions practice test http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/chemistry/mass_mole_conversions/quiz1122.html

More practice problems 
http://www.algebralab.org/practice/practice.aspx?file=Algebra_MoleProblems2.xml

More practice problems with answer key (don't do 7 or 8)
http://www.chemistry.wustl.edu/~coursedev/Online%20tutorials/Plink/moleskey.htm

Tuesday, Oct 27th and quiz announcement

Conversions Quiz on Thursday, Oct. 29th

1st period - conversions packet

2nd period - see Oct 20th 1st period agenda (Magnesium Oxide lab)

Tuesday, October 20th 3rd and 4th Period

Conversion Packet

Agenda Tuesday, October 20 1st Period Only

1) warm-up: How many atoms are in 57.0 grams of potassium (K)?
2) Empirical Formula of magnsesium oxide lab.
Link to spreadsheet for Group Data
3) Turn in Chalk Lab
4) Homework - Moles & Mass (other side of Gram Formula Mass)

Agenda, Friday, 10/16

Watch Crashcourse Massive Creatures
Link to Crashcourse Massive Creatures
1) Warm-up: How many moles of sodium are in 50.0 g of Na?
2) Stoichiometry Notes
3) Chalk Lab - due Tues, 10/20 Link to chalk lab
4) Pass out grade reports. All late work due Monday, 10/9

Agenda Wednesday, Oct 14

Due to the PSAT, the vast majority of chemistry students were taking the PSAT for the first half of the day.
Period 1 does not have to do the following assignment.

Periods 3, and 4.
1) no warm-up
2) watch NOVA Kaboom and write down 10 facts.
NOVA Kaboom

Agenda Monday, October 12

1) no warm-up
2) Turn in Gram Formula Mass homework
3) Work on Chapter 3: 1 -23 odd, and Chapter 4:  1 -29 odd

Agenda Weds, October 7

1) Warm-up: Watch Video: How big is a mole? and take notes. Link to How big is a mole video
2) Any last dimensional anaylsis questions. Get stamped today.
3) The Mole Concept Powerpoint and Notes, Slides 1 -11,
Please check Synergy for this powerpoint in PDF form.

4) Gram Formula Mass Worksheet  - Due Monday, Oct 12

Agenda Monday, October 5, 2015

1) warm-up: Convert 560 mL to L, 212 cm to m, and 2578 km to m.
2) Go over Dimensional Anaylsis homework. Finish and get stamped on Wed, Oct 7

Agenda Thursday, October 1

1) warm-up: Read Lab
2) Do Conservation of Mass Lab - Due today Safety: GOGGLES
3) Get Chapter 2 Packet stamped today and keep in your binder
4) Reminder: Dimensional Analysis Packet done by Monday, 10/5.
We will go over this packet in class.

Agenda Tuesday, Septmeber 29

1) warm-up: Take notes on Crashcourse unit analysis and sig figs.
Link to Crashcourse unit analysis and sig figs
2) Finish Short History of the Atom powerpoint and notes
3) Practice Unit Analysis Sheet - Due Monday, Oct 5
4) Due Date Reminder - Chapter 2 Packet due Thursday, October 1

Agenda Friday, September 25

1) warm-up: Watch Crashcourse - the History of Atomic Chemistry and take notes in warm-up section
Link to Crashcourse History of Atomic Chemistry
2) Share class data and finish Accuracy and Precision Lab - turn in.
3) Slideshow - The Atom (A Short History) - Take notes on note-taking guide.
Link to The Atom (A Short History) Powerpoint
4) Intro to Dimensional Analysis

Agenda Wednesday, September 23

1) warm-up: Study for 5 minutes
2) Test #1
3) Chapter 2 Review Packet - Due Thursday, Oct 1
4) Turn in Penny Lab

Agenda Monday, September 21

1) warm-up: Get your pennies. Rinse them off and make observations.
2) Go over questions on test review packet and other questions
3) Accuracy and Precision Lab
4) Test #1 Wed, 9/23, penny lab due Wed, 9/23, Binder Check Friday, 9/25, Accuracy and Precsion Lab due Friday, 9/25

Agenda Thursday, Sept 17

1) warm-up: Predict what happened to your pennies after soaking them in HCl
2) Hand out study guide and review packet
3) Reminder - Penny lab due Wed, 9/23, Test, Wed, 9/23

Agenda Tuesday, September 15

1) Warm-up: Read Penny Lab
2) Do Cents-ible/Penny Chemistry Lab
3) Turn in Isotope Packet
4) Penny Lab due Monday, 9/21

Agenda Friday, 9/11

1) Warm-up: Define accuracy and precision
2) Go over scientific notation problems (put in in-class section of binder)
3) Question period
4) Chapter 1 Slideshow and notes
Link to slideshow
5) Accuracy and Precision Packet

Turn in Physical and chemical changes lab, and remember to turn in the Atoms and Their Isotopes Packet on Tuesday, Sept 15.

Your first test will be coming up in about 2 weeks. You will receive a study guide and we will review in class.

Agenda Wednesday, September 9

1) warm-up: Define the terms physical change and chemical change. What is the difference between the two?
2) Physcial and Chemical Changes Lab (cannot be made up, if you have an excused absence, you can get the data from your lab group and answer the questions on your own).
Due Friday, 9/11
3) Homework Check - Chapter 1 packet. DO NOT turn in. This will be checked and stamped and kept in your binder in the homework and hand-outs section.
4) Homework - Atoms and Their Isotopes Packet - due Tuesday, 9/15.

Next class we will go over the Scientific Notation problems, I will take questions on any previous like scientific notation, sig figs, chapter 1 packet, density lab or anything else.

Agenda Friday, Sept 4

1) warm-up: What is the formula for density? Calculate the density of an object with a mass of 20 g and a volume of 5 cm^3.
2) Density Lab - due today.
3) Homework reminder - Read chapter 1 and have chapter 1 packet complete by Wed, 9/9

Agenda Weds, 9/2/15

Turn in your take-home safety quiz. Also turn in lab safety contract and student contract if you haven't already done so.

1) Warm-up: Take notes on Mr Causey video about significant figures (sig figs).
Link to video Mr Causey sig figs video
2) Sig Fig Rule Sheet & Do Practice Problems
3) Read pages 46-50: Do Sample Problem 2-4 (a -e), p.47 and practice 1) a-f and 2) a - c, p.48, and practice 1 - 4, p. 50 in your notes (In-Class Section of Binder).
4) Video: Mr. Causey Scientific Notation. Take notes in warm-up section.
Link to Video Mr. Causey Scientific Notation Video
5) Do Scientific Notation Problems on reverse side of sig fig rules sheet
6) Homework: Chapter 1 Review Packet - due Wednesday, September 9th.

Agenda Monday, 8/31/15

1) Warm-up: Define combustion. Whay didn't the bandana burn when it was dowsed in alcohol and water? (from Thursday's demonstration)
2) Lab: How to Use a Bunsen Burner - lab done on a separate sheet of binder paper. Due in class.
3) Math pre-test. Do as much as possible in class, but due Wed, 9/2
4) Homework: Take Home Safety Quiz, Due Wed, 9/2

Additional Safety Information: Always Add Acid to water. Never add water to acid as this can cause splash back and/or an explosion. To remember this it is AAA for Always Add Acid.