Week 12: Dec 2-5

Goals:
1. Analyze data
2. Describe procedures clearly.
3. Describe errors and limitations

Click here for a link to a template for the lab report that you can fill in on line and print up. You want the very last item on the page inquiry work sample template.

Activities:

Tuesday: Last Day for Data Collection. Write Procedures, Graph Data. Finish as homework if not done in class.
Thursday: Analyze sample conclusions. Write Conclusions.
Friday: Final touch ups on all parts of lab report. Turn in Notebooks.

Notebook contents:

1. Dissolving Rates Part 1: Introduction
2. Dissolving Rates PArt 2: Design
3. Procedure handout
4. Graph
5. Conclusion
6. Sample Conclusions

Weeks 10 and 11: Nov. 13-21

Goals:
1. Identify variables that can affect the rate that sugar dissolves.
2. Define and be able to correctly apply the terms: variable, independent variable, dependent variable, controlled variable.
3. Develop a procedure to investigate dissolving rates.
4. Develop a theory to explain how dissolving occurs.

Thursday 11/13: Go over test. Dissolving competition.
Friday 11/14: Define variables vocabulary. Work on practice worksheet.
Monday 11/17: Choose Focus question. Write Introduction draft.
Tuesday 11/18: Develop procedure in groups.
Thursday 11/20: Start data collection. Homework: Revise Introduction.
Friday 11/21: Finish data collection start graphs and procedure.

Notebook Contents:
1. Variables Worksheet.
2. Dissolving Rates Part 1 (Hypothesis, Theory, Background)
3. Dissolving Rates Part 2( Designing the Investigation)
4. Data Tables
5. Graphs of data.

Week 9, Nov. 3-7

Goals:

1. Describe how particles are mixed in a solution.

2. Correctly use the terms: solution, solute, solvent, concentration and solubility

3. Interpret solubility curves.



Activities

Monday: Notes on solutions and work on solubility curves worksheets.

Tuesday: Demonstrations about Solutions. Work on practice worksheet.
Thursday: Review
Friday: Unit Test.

Notebook Contents.
1. Notes on Solutions
2. Solubility Curve Worksheet
3. Making your own solubility curve.
4. Practice Test and Review sheets.

Weeks 7 and 8 Oct. 20- 31

Goals:
1. Know the boiling and melting/freezing temperatures of water in Celcius.
2. Know that temperature is an indicator of the speed (kinetic energy) of the particles in a substance.
3. Be able to describe relative particle behavior and spacing during solid, liquid and gas phases.
4. Be able to label sections of a heating curve and describe what the added energy is doing during each section.
5. Be able to classify samples of matter as either pure substance or mixture.
6. Be able to describe on a molecular level what is happening during dissolving and in a solution.
7. Be able to describe several methods for separating mixtures, including filtering and distilling.


Activities
Monday(10/20): Return quizzes. Go over background information about water
Tuesday(10/21): Measure boiling and freezing temperatures.
Block day(10/23): Collect data during freezing and melting of water. Guided lecture and worksheets. Finish as homework.
Friday: No School
Monday(10/27): review and quiz
Tuesday (10/28): Mixtures vs. Pure Substances
Thursday(10/30): Lab - distilling alcohol.
Friday(10/31): catch up and quiz


Anticipated notebook contents:
1. Notes and data table about temerature
2. Sketch of graph of freezing data
3. Worksheet: Phases
4. Worksheet: It's just a passing phase.
5.Notes on mixtures vs. Pure Substances
6. Distillation of a Mixture: Alcohol and Water - worksheet and graph

Weeks 5 and 6 - Oct. 6 to Oct. 16

Goals:
1. Know the density of water: 1g/ml.
2. Know what mass, volume and density are and how to measure them.
3. Know that the density of a pure substance is constant (at a given temperature and pressure).
4. Know that the solid phase is almost always more dense than the liquid phase, but that water is an exception.
5. Know that fresh water is a precious and effectively limited resource.

Activities:
Monday: Go over returned Test. Notes on mass and volume. Introduce density of water lab.
Tuesday: Determine the density of water. Link to handout
Thursday: Finish water lab. Determine the density of ice.
Monday: Discussion - What do we know about water in the world.
Tuesday: Density Review sheet . (This copy is missing some important pictures that are hand drawn on the in-class version.) Link to handout.
Thursday: The Density Challenge and Quiz


This weeks notebook should have.
1. Density of a pure substance part 1.
2. Graph
3. Density of ice worksheet
4. Density review sheet
5. Density Challenge Graph

Weeks 3 and 4 combined Sept. 22- Oct. 3

Goals:
Describe the behavior of particles in gases.
2. Describe how fas pressure, gas temperature and gas volumes are related.
3. Correctly use the vocabulary atom, molecule, compound, and element.
4. Know the meanings of subscript and coefficient.
5. Know that a chemical reaction is the rearranging of atoms into new molecules.

Activities:
Monday 9/22: Go over returned work. Lecture on nature of gases.
Tuesday 9/23: Lecture on volume, temperature and pressure. Work on worksheet: Gas LAw worksheet.
Thursday 9/25: Lab: Electrolysis of water. Also answer questions from a reading. Homework: Write conclusion for the lab.
Friday9/26: Go over reading questions and conclusion.
Monday 9/29: Work on posters showing chemical reactions.
Tuesday 9/30 Show posters. Work on Flashcards.
Thursday10/2: Review
Friday 10/3: Unit Test.

Contents of Notebook:
1. Notes on gases.
2. Gas Laws Worksheet.
3. Taking apart Water
4. Reading and Questions - The Structure of Matter
5. Conclusion
6. Review

Week 2 Sept 15-20

Second Week Goals
1. Describe similarities and differences in chemical reactions.
2. Describe similarities and differences in properties of gases.
3. Know properties of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Hydrogen (H2)
4. Be able to write equations for the reactions that produce CO2 and H2 and know the formulas and names of the chemicals

Second Week Activities
Monday: Videos - The air we Breathe and Oxygen.
Tuesday: Discuss particle model of matter. Take notes on readings about Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide. Study Flashcards for homework. Link to flashcards
Thursday: Lab -- Gases Part 2 - Reactions to make Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Link to lab handout with questionsHomework: Finish the Individual Answer Sheet for Lab, and write a paragraph about what all chemical reactions have in common, citing evidence from our reactions in class.
Friday: Demonstrations with H2 and CO2, Go over answers to Lab questions. Quiz

Notebook Contents:
1. Video Notes on Handout.
2. Readings on Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide
3. T Chart notes on Readings
4. Individual Answer Sheet about Gases Lab
5. Paragraph Reflection on Chemical Reactions