Friday, January 23, 2009

Week 16 and 17 Jan 20-29

Goals:
1. Describe trends on the periodic table.
2. Define valence electron and describe how to determine how many an atom has.
3. Explain how atoms form covalent bonds.
4. Explain how atoms for ionic bonds.

Activities:
Tues: Lecture and practie about valence electrons.
Thursday: Video: The periodic Table and lecture and practice with covalent bonds.
Friday: Lecture and practice with ionic bonds.
Monday: Review for Final
Thursday: Semester Final

Notebook:
1. Notes on Valence Electrons.
2. Valence Electron Practice
3. Structured notes on bonding
4. Practice with valence electrons and bonding.
5 Video notes.
6 Final Review.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

week 15: Jan 12-16

Sorry for the missed weeks. The snow days caused me not to add extra assignments for the first week of JAnuary. This week I'm just slow getting to.

Goals:

1. Know that all atoms are made of the same three pieces: protons, electrons and neutrons.
2. Be able to describe the relative masses, charges and locations of the sub atomic particles.
3. Be able to describe how the periodic table is organized inregard to metals/non-metals, reactivity, protons, neutrons, electrons, and families' physical and chemical properties.

Activities:
Monday: Go over quiz, reading on models of the atom
Tuesday: Metal or Non Metal Lab
Thursday: Finish workshet, Lab-Flame Tests, Lecture
Friday: Finish periodic trends notes, review, quiz

Notebook TOC
1. Model of atom reading
2. Model of atom chart
3 Metal or Nonmetal
4. periodic table
5. Flame test data table
6. Lecture notes

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Weeks 12 and 13: Dec. 8-19 Metals

Goals

1. Be able to list general properties of metals: shiny, malleable, conduct electricity, reactive with oxygen and acid, solid at room temperature.
2. Be able to rank common metals in terms of their reactivity with acid.
3. Be able to write, draw and balance simple reactions.
4. Know that atoms and mass are conserved in a reaction.
5. Use the reactivity series to predict which reactions will occur.
6. Describe the processes through which metals are refined.

Activities:
Mon 12/8: Reading about metals.
Tuesday 12/9: (Substitute) Video, Reading and worksheet about metals.
Thursday12/11: Lab: Reacting Metals with Acid. Balance reactions as Homework.
Friday, 12/12: Go over lab and demonstrations.
Monday, 12/15: Start reaction with Copper. Chemical Reactions Video and Worksheet.
Tuesday12/16: Finish Copper ExperimentFinish questions as homework.
Thursday, 12/18: Silver Reaction and Poster Project
Friday, 12/19: Review and Quiz

Notebook:
1. Metals (2 pages)
2. Reading and questions about Metals
3. Reacting Metals with Acids
4. Notes on Sodium reaction.
5. Lab worksheet: Copper Reaction
6. Lab Conclusion

Thursday, December 4, 2008

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

Sunday, November 16, 2008

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.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

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.

Monday, October 20, 2008

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