December 20, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please open up your netbooks to the webspiration homepage, log in, and open up your concept map.  Once here, mostly close your netbook so I can quickly show you what to do!

Agenda:
1. Sharing concept maps
2. Ionic Jeopardy - need yellow sheets & PT

Homework:
-Test 3 tomorrow, the 21st
-ALL LATE work due before the start of the test!

Quote:
"Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back." ~Unknown

December 16, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get out your regular notebooks.  Without using your notes or classmates, answer the following question as THOROUGHLY as possible!  This is a practice question for the test, please no talking during this daily question.
1. If you were given 2 unknown liquids & asked to determine which of the liquids was MORE POLAR, what are 3 simple tests you could do to help you with answering this question.  Be sure to name the supplies you would need, and how to perform each of the 3 tests.
*HINT* start by brainstorming a list of supplies, in addition to the liquids, make diagrams if necessary!

Agenda:
1. Concept mapping for a conclusion
2. Handing in sub work

Homework:
-Lab report & concept map/conclusion due Monday, 20th
-Test 3 on Tues, 21st
-Any/all late work due by Tues, 21st

Quote:
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" ~Abe Lincoln

December 10, 2010

Daily Questions:
Look through your lab notebook & procedures handout and on a small crap piece of paper (up front on desk) brainstorm a list of important vocabulary from the experiment.

Agenda:
1. Finishing lab procedures/ molecular models

2. Post-lab questions
3. Concept Mapping
4. Conclusion input

Homework:
-Word search for compounds worksheet due Monday, 13th
-Lab report due Tuesday, 14th
-Test 3 on Wed, 15th

Quote:
"Courage doesn't always roar.  Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." ~Mary Anne Radmacher

December 9, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get out your homework worksheet due tomorrow (IMF worksheet) and on the back side rank the following compounds from lowest to highest boiling point:  Carbon disulfide CS2, Fluoromethane CH3F, and Methane CH4.  Consider what types of IMF forces exist between the molecules, and which of these intermolecular forces is the strongest.  The strongest IMF = highest boiling point.


Agenda:
1. Completing lab procedures
2. Key to using molecular models kits
3. Starting post-lab questions

Homework:
-IMF worksheet due Friday, 10th
-IMF lab report due Tuesday, 14th
-Test 3 Wednesday, 15th

Quote:
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." ~Charles R. Swindoll

December 8, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get a data table from the front counter & a pair of scissors from the back/side counter in the top right drawer.  Trim down your data table BUT DO NOT tape it into your notebooks yet!

Agenda:
1. Purpose & hypothesis for IMF lab
2. Complete lab

Homework:
-IMF worksheet due Friday, 10th
-Lab reports due Tuesday, 14th
-Test 3 on Wednesday, 15th

Quote:
 "You are educated.  Your certification is in your degree.  You may think of it as a ticket to the good life.  Let me ask you to think of an alternative.  Think of it as your ticket to change the world." ~Tom Brokaw

December 7, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get out your VSEPR Shapes handout, your PT with Electronegativity values, your lab notebooks and the handout describing the IMF lab we're starting today in class.   PLEASE have a pencil to use in your notebooks!

Agenda:
1. Finish Pre-lab questions
2. Addressing purpose & hypothesis
3. Tape data table into notebooks
4. Demo flask technique & soap situation

Homework:
-Chemical Formula writing worksheet due Wednesday, 8th


Quote:
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." ~Maya Angelou

December 6, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get a scrap piece of paper from the front table and answer the following questions:
1. Why did "salt water" conduct electricity (turn the light bulb on)?  Or rather, what did the salt have to do in order to conduct electricity?  (Think about what the parts are in a salt compound...)
2. Why don't substances made purely of molecules conduct electricity?

Agenda:
1. Going over IMF notes
2. Pre-lab questions
3. Cutting out & taping data tables into notebooks
4. Building molecules (if time permits)


Homework:
-Compound naming worksheet due TODAY
-Pre-lab questions due before starting lab on Tuesday, 7th

Quote:
"I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure." ~Unknown

December 3, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get a small scrap piece of paper from the front desk.  Reflecting on the reading & notes you took yesterday, try to recall and write down the 3 types of intermolecular forces.  Write down as much description as you can about each of the 3 types of forces.

Agenda:
1. Going over homework- building compounds
2. More compounds practice


Homework:
-Compound practice worksheet due Monday, 6th

Quote:
"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." ~Robert McCloskey

December 2, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get out your Molecular Models worksheet and continue working through your 15 problems due Friday.  If you have questions, please try to get help from your class mates, and then me!  We'll have ~20 min at the start of today's class to work through more of your homework.  REMINDER: Turn in your Naming Compounds worksheet to the homework folder!

Agenda:
1. Reading & taking notes about Intermolecular Forces
2. Starting pre-lab questions

Homework:
-Molecular Models wkst - 15 problems, due Fri, 3rd
-Come dressed for a lab experiment on Fri, 3rd

Quote:
"If you wait to do anything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything." ~Win Borden

December 1, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please pick up the handout "Predicting Molecular Polarity" at the front table and quietly read though the tips and steps for solving at your desk.  Make sure you put your name on the top of the handout & today's date.  When finished reading through the steps, turn your paper over and try solving the problems on the board on the back side of your paper - USE the handout to help you!

Agenda:
-Review keynote: Bond polarity
-Working though "molecular models" worksheet
-Portaportal practice

Homework:
-Formula writing I worksheet due Thurs, 2nd
-Molecular models (15 problems total) due Friday, 3rd

Quote:
"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know." ~Daniel L. Boorstin

November 30, 2010

Daily Questions:
Get a scrap piece of paper from the front table and divide it into 4's with a "T" Do NOT write your name on it!  In each box, write ONLY an example of a heterogenous mixture, a homogenous mixture, a pure element & a compound (one for each square).

Agenda:
1. Ionic Compounds & Chemical Formulas Fill-in notes
2. Practice with Formula writing
3. Naming race

Homework:
-Formula-writing I due Thurs, 2, 2010
-Make up Test 2 by Friday, 3rd

Quote:
"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts." ~Jim Morrison

November 29, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get the handout up front AND a ruler from the side counter out back and make a data table like the one of the board on the back page of the handout.  Make your data table nearly as big as the back side of the paper.

Agenda:
1. PowerPoint notes over Elements, Compounds, & Mixtures
2. In groups w/flash cards
3. Mini-lab activity
4. Create a flowchart for E,C, M

Homework:
-Deadline to make up Test 2 is Friday, Dec 3rd

Quote:
"Don't wait until everything is just right.  It will never be perfect.  There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions.  So what.  Get started now.  With each step you take, you will grow strong and stronger, and more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful." ~Mark Victor Hansen

November 18, 2010

Daily Questions:
In your notebooks, please write down the following questions AND your answers:
1. Which of the 3 subatomic particles play the greatest role in determining the physical & chemical properties of an element?
2. True or false: In a chemical reaction, the mass of the reactants equals the mass of the products?
3. What are four indicators that a chemical change may be occurring?
4. Draw a change of state diagram for water and label where the material is a solid, liquid, and a gas, AND where the changes of state are occurring.  Be sure to include the boiling and melting point of water in your diagram. (You don't need to write this question in your notebooks, just the answer!)

Agenda:
1. Finishing up "physical vs chemical changes" worksheet
2. Class time to study/complete homework: Molecular Models wkst 10 ONLY

Homework:
-Molecular models worksheet due Fri, 19th
-Test 2 on Fri, 19th

Quote:
"The true art of memory is the art of attention." ~Samuel Johnson

November 17, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please pick up the worksheet "Atomic Structure" on the desk and complete it at your desk.  Reminder - homework needs to go into the homework folder!

Agenda:
1. Fine-tuning the review list
2. Chemical & Physical Changes worksheet
3. Molecular Models worksheet

Homework:
-Molecular Models worksheet due Fri, 19th
-Test 2 on Friday, 19th

Quote:
"We want people who hate to lose, like myself.  Now marinate on that." ~Snoop Dogg

November 16, 2010

Daily Questions:
Take out your homework from yesterday and find a partner in class to check over your answers.  I'll be circulating around the room to see how you've done.

Agenda:
1. Compound Names & Formulas worksheet
2. Compound Naming Race!
3. Elaborating test review

Homework:
-Complete ion worksheet for Wed, 19th

Quote:
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." ~Dorothy Nevill

November 15, 2010

Daily Questions:
Take a few minutes to go through your notes & handouts.  Try to create a list of 4-6 BIG topics we've covered in the last few weeks since finishing our first exam.  Put this list on a new sheet of notebook paper.. we'll come back to it a little later in class.

Agenda:
1. Prediciting ions, notes & a worksheet
2. Naming compounds flowchart & key
3. Test review

Homework:
-Naming Covalent Compounds worksheet due Tues, 16th
-Extra credit progress report reflections due Tues, 16th
-Unit 2 test on Friday, 19th

Quote:
"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." ~Maureen Dowd

November 12, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please pick up the Progress Report reflection with you NAME on it & read over the directions.  Your responses can earn you 5 bonus points on a lab report!  These responses need to go into your lab notebook.


Agenda:
1. Hand back Lewis Dot quizzes
2. Finish problems from Wed's class on board
3. Start Ionic Compounds notes
4. Exit slip....

Homework:
-Continue extra credit progress report reflections - due Tues 16th

Quote:
"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.  The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach." ~Benjamin Mays

November 10, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please clear your desk for the Lewis Dot Quiz.  When you are finished with the quiz, please pick up the handout (B1 only) and read through it.  In your regular notebooks, answer the questions (7 total) on the back page of "Lewis Dot Structures & Shapes of Molecules."

Agenda:
1. Block 2 only - Review handout VSEPR shapes
2. VSEPR handouts, clarification for everyone
3. Ionic Compounds Fill-In notes

Homework:
NONE!

Quote:
"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences." ~Robert G. Ingersoll

November 9, 2010

Daily Questions:  Turn with a partner & answer these 2 questions: What is true of any of the elements WITHIN any GROUP?  Or rather, what information are you given about the elements when you are given the group #? 
AND: What type of bonding are you showing with Lewis Dot structures?  Recall there are 3 types of bonds we've learned about (they are listed in your notes from Friday).

Agenda:
1. Discussing comic strip
2. Finish Polarity notes from Friday
3. Handout VSEPR model diagrams
4. Quick notes covering VSEPR
5. Start worksheet : Lewis Structures & VSEPR

Homework:
-Lewis dot structures QUIZ on Wed, Nov 10th

Quote:
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.  Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -every day begin the task anew." ~St. Francis de Sales

November 5, 2010

Daily Questions:
In your notebooks, draw Lewis Dot diagrams for the following compounds:
1. F
2. CH4
3. H2
4. CO2
While you are completing this, I'll walk around & check your Lewis diagrams from the worksheet.

Agenda:
1. Working with a partner to answer comic strip questions
2. Polarity keynotes

Homework:
-Finish comic strip questions for Monday, 8th

Quote:
"One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself." ~Sara Jeannette Duncan  

November 4, 2010

Daily Questions:
Get a scrap piece of paper from the front, and copy down the 4 steps to drawing Lewis Dot structures (these are in your notes).  Then try to draw a lewis dot structure for the compound on the board.

Agenda:
1. Continue working through worksheet from yesterday
2. Demo: Water's polarity
3. Cartoon time: Polar bears & penguins
4. Partner work answering questions about electronegativity

Homework:
-Have 10 lewis dot structures completed from the worksheet for Fri, 5th

Quote:
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." ~Gary Larson

November 3, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get out the worksheet from yesterday "Parts of an Atom" so that I can check for completion.  I will walk around the room and look for it on your desk.  While I am checking these, in your notebooks, please complete Lewis Dot structures for the elements Rubidium, Iodine, Radon, & Barium.  Refer to your notes from yesterday for help.

Agenda:
1. Finish notes on the board from yesterday : Lewis Dots for compounds
2. Practicing on your own - worksheet & discussing lab reports...
3. Demo: water polarity
4. Cartoon time: Polar bears & penguins
5. Pairing to answer questions about the cartoon

Homework:
-Have 10 Lewis Dot structures completed on the worksheet handed out in class

Quote:
"The highest result of education is tolerance." ~Helen Keller

November 2, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please pick up the handout "Parts of an Atom" and quietly begin completing the worksheet.  Think of this as a practice quiz!  You can use your periodic table, but all of the information you need is provided on the worksheet itself.  IF you do not finish this with class time provided, it is homework.

Agenda:
1. Finishing up notes from yesterday
2. Starting notes Ch 7.1 Valence electrons & bonding
3. Lewis Dot Module on big screen

Homework:

-Finish "Parts of an Atom" worksheet

Quote:
"New roads; new ruts." ~G.K. Chesterton

November 1, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get out your periodic table and find the element Bismuth.  In your notebooks, write down the symbol for Bismuth, and then tell me how many of each of the 3 subatomic particles there are in a single atom of Bismuth (subatomic particles =  protons, electrons & neutrons).  Use your notes from last week to help you.

Agenda:
1. Getting acquainted with Ms. Chessey's portaportal
2. Taking notes & reading about the periodic table
3. Worksheet: The structure of the PT

Homework:
-Finish worksheet for Tues, 2nd

Quote:
"If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?" ~Rabbi Nashman of Bratslav

October 29, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get out your lab notebooks and make a neat stack on the table near the homework folder.  Then clear your desk for the quiz!

Agenda:
1. Continue Atoms notes from yesterday
2. Get online at: http://www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse/chemistry.html to read about atoms, and take the Multiple Choice questions quiz
3. Start homework: "Matter is Made of Atoms" reading & questions

Homework:
-Answer questions #1-6 from handout: "Matter is Made of Atoms"


Quote:
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way." ~Marvin Minsky

October 28, 2010

Daily Questions:
When you get your "physical & chemical changes" worksheet returned, find a partner in class to go over your responses with that person.  You will be having a quiz tomorrow, use your time wisely & efficiently.  If you have questions, first ask your partner, then another classmate.  Come to me only after asking 2 other people!

Agenda:
1. Finish data tables for lab
2. Resource for online quiz: http://www.teacherbridge.org/public/bhs/teachers/Dana/chemphys.html
3. Notes about Atoms
4. Peer review for lab report

Homework:
-Physical & Chemical changes lab report due Fri, 29th
-Quiz over Physical & Chemical changes on Fri, 29th

Quote:
"Why not go out on a limb?  Isn't that where the fruit is?" ~Frank Scully

October 26, 2010

Daily Questions: 
In your regular notebooks, answer the following questions.  You will need your data table from the lab.
1. What happens in a physical change?  Describe using an example from the lab experiment from last week.
2. Explain what happens in a chemical change.  List 4 types of evidence that a chemical change may be occurring.  Describe an example of each from the lab.

Agenda:
1. Working through lab questions at stations
2. Intrinsic vs extrinsic
3. Hand out lab conclusion template

Homework:
-Physical & Chemicals Changes" lab report due Fri, 29th

Quote:
"I've always been well-liked.  I was so popular in school, everybody hated me." ~Anonymous

October 25, 2010

Daily Questions:
Get a small piece of scrap paper from the front desk, and locate in your notes the definition for the Law of Conservation of Matter.  In your OWN WORDS, rewrite or draw images for this definition.  Make sure your own description does not alter or change the definition itself, just rewords it.  We'll vote on the top 3 BEST in the class, for prizes.  When you're finished, write your name on the back of the paper and tape it onto the white board somewhere.

Agenda:
1. Finish note taking on "Physical & Chemical Changes of Matter"
2. Groups to write word equations for lab data table
3. Start working on lab questions in stations

Homework:
-Block 4 only - last day to make up Test 1 is TODAY!!!
-Physical & Chemical Changes lab report due Friday, 29th

Quote:
"Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it." ~Colonel Michael Friedman

October 22, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get out your regular notebook and a pencil to take notes with.  We're watching 2 video's about the structure of an atom & the periodic table.  Put the title "THE ATOM" at the top of your notes with today's date. 

Agenda:
1. "The Atom" video - you are responsible for writing down at least 5 new pieces of information from the movie.  5 = 70%, 8 = 85%, 10 - 100%
2. "The Periodic Table" video - same expectations as the first video.

Homework:
-Word problems worksheet of physical vs chemical properties due Monday, 25th
-Make up Test 1 by Monday, 25th - BLOCK 4 ONLY

Quote:

“For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down.  From this day on I’d like to be known as ‘The Big Aristotle’ because Aristotle once said, ‘Excellence is not a singular act; it’s a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.’” ~Shaquille O'Neal

October 21, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get a piece of paper from the front desk (small, square scrap paper) and quickly write down
3 observations from yesterday's lab that surprised you
2 types of changes you think you observed, please describe these briefly (1 physical, 1 chemical)
1 question you have regarding yesterday's experiments
You will be sharing these with someone else in the class.  When finished, please get out your data table & the procedures in order to finish the lab in class today.

Agenda:
1. Finish procedures for "Physical & Chemical Changes Lab"
2. Making word equations
3. Pass back lab notebooks
4. Start word problems

Homework:
-Finish word problems for Monday, 25th
-Today is the last day for B2 to make up Test 1
-Deadline for B4 to make up Test 1 is Mon, 25th

Quote:
"I don't design clothes, I design dreams." ~Ralph Lauren

October 20, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please pick up the handout at the front of the room and carefully read through the directions quietly to yourself. 

Agenda:
1. (Block 2 only) continue notes from yesterday for just a bit...
2. Start Physical & Chemical Changes Lab

Homework:
-Deadline for making up Test 1 is Thurs, 21st for Block 2 & Mon, 25th for Block 4.

Quote:
"People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat.  They want you miserable, just like them.  They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall." ~Leonardo DiCaprio

October 19, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get out the water problem handout from yesterday, and with a partner make a list of all the physical properties & all the chemical properties that you can identify.  There are 10 total!

Agenda:
1. Physical & Chemical Changes Demo's & notes
2. Worksheet/Notes for P & C Changes of Matter

Homework:
-WEAR COVERED SHOES to class Wed, 20th (lab day)

Quote:
"You can turn painful situations around through laughter.  If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it." ~Bill Cosby

October 18, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get out the reading handout "Chemists Study Matter."  Turn & talk with a neighbor about your answers to questions #3, 7, & 1 (homework from last week).  Make sure you both discuss HOW you can solve problem #1 specifically!  Please ALSO stack your lab notebooks in a neat pile on the table near the fume hood & window.


Agenda:
1. Reviewing old homework problems
2. Making observations about "stuff"
3. Handout descriptor words & water problem

Homework:
-"How to Boil Water" lab due TODAY
-Reading questions from sections 2.4-2.6 due TODAY

Quote:
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." ~Auguste Rodin

October 14 & 15, 2010

Daily Questions:
On Tuesday, I demonstrated how we chemically changed water to produce hydrogen gas and oxygen gas.  If sugar is composed of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, what products can you predict will be made if we heat up sugar?

Agenda:
1. Demonstrate sugar reaction
2. Finish notes from Atoms, Elements, Compounds PP
3. Gas reactions demo
4. Hand back homework & tests, go over questions...
5. Time to start homework & work on lab reports

Homework:
-Finish reading handout sections 2.4-2.6  & answer in R&P #s 6, 11, 12, 13 - due Monday, 18th
-How to Boil water lab report due Monday, 18th

Quote:
"To reach a port, we must sail--Sail, not tie at anchor--Sail, not drift." ~Franklin Roosevelt

October 12, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get the handout up front and take out your notes from last Friday.  Reminder, homework into the folder please!

Agenda:
1. Finish Matter PP
2. Fill-in notes for Atoms, Elements & Compounds
3. Demo electrolysis
4. Hand back lab reports, tests, old assignments

Homework:
-Read up to section 2.4 of handout, answer R&P questions #1a&e, 2, 3 (pg 35) - due Thurs, 14th
-How to Boil Water lab report due Monday, 18th

Quote:
"We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~Aristotle

October 8, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get the handout at the front and a textbook out back, then begin reading pages 25-26 & answering the questions on the guided reading sheet.

Agenda:
1. Notes for KMT & graphing phase changes
2. What is Matter?  Power Point
3. Connecting content to How to Boil Water Lab questions/conclusion

Homework:
-Read handout "Chemists Study Matter" and answer question #3 on page 8, question 7 on page 22, and problem #1 at the end of the packet - due Tues, 12th

Quote:
"I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries." ~Stephen King

October 6, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please pick up the handout at the front table, and quietly read through the questions for the movie "A Civil Action"

Agenda:
1. Watching A Civil Action

Homework:
-Today is the last day to make up the water quiz for block 2, block 4 has until Thursday, 7th

Quote:
"A positive attitude may not solve all of your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." ~Herm Albright

October 5, 2010

Daily Questions:
Any late work MUST be turned before you take the test today if you want to receive any partial credit!  Please clear your desks for the test.

Agenda:
1. Unit 1 test
***When you are finished, please get out the "How to Boil Water" lab and start answering the lab questions listed on the back of the directions.

Homework:
-Enjoy your night off!
-Last day to make up water quiz is Wed, 6th (block 2) or Thurs, 7th (block 4).


Quote:
"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it." ~Frank Howard Clark

October 4, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please stack your lab notebooks on the front table near the window, then get a textbook from the back shelf and answer questions #12 & 14 on page 21 in your notebooks.

Agenda:
1. Review for Unit 1 test


Homework:
-Study for Unit 1 test on Tues, Oct 5th

Quote:
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." ~Jean Paul

October 1, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get a textbook from the back shelf and open to page 179 in your books.  Figure 3 at the top of the page needs to be an added diagram to your Foul Water lab report!  Please copy this figure into your notebooks, making sure to label it!  If you already have a diagram of this apparatus in your notebooks, you can use the time to work on the lab report conclusion.

Agenda:
1. Continue working on conclusion for Foul Water lab report
2. Graphing states of matter change
3. Answering Boiling water lab questions
4. Hand out study guide for unit test

Homework:
-Foul Water lab report due Monday, Oct 4th
-Unit test Tues, Oct 5th

Quote:
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.  The world owes you nothing.  It was here first." ~Mark Twain

September 30, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get a textbook from the back shelf.  If you did not finish taking notes from yesterday (B.2 & B.3) please continue with note-taking.   If you are finished with note-taking, you need to create a vocab list with definitions of all bold terms listed on pages 23-26.

Agenda:
1. Finishing "How to Boil Water" lab
2. Graphing data & answering questions
3. Conclusions for the Foul Water Lab

Homework:
-Foul water lab report due Monday, Sept 4th
-Unit test Tues, Sept 5th

Quote:
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" ~Satchel Paige

September 29, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get a book from the back shelf and quietly read sections B.2 & B.3, pages 25-26, and take notes on these sections in your notebooks.

Agenda:
1. Handback Story of Drinking Water quizzes
2. Lighting a bunsen burner safety videos
3. How to Boil Water Lab

Homework:
-Last day to make up metrics quiz is Friday, 1st
-Foul Water lab report due Monday, 4th
-Unit test on Tues, 5th
-Last day to make up Story of Drinking Water quiz is Wed, 6th

Quote:
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time.  Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it." ~M. Scott Peck

September 28, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get a book from the back shelf and quietly read pages 23-24, taking notes like we did together in class last week.  When finished reading & taking notes, answer the building skills questions 1-3 on page 24 in your notebooks.

Agenda:
1. Simulation of density
2. Calculating water use per person per day
3. Defining & using vocabulary in our lab reports


Homework:
-Lab reports due Monday, Oct 4th
-Unit test on Tues, Oct 5th

Quote:
"Common sense is not so common." ~Voltaire

September 27, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get the handout up front and read through the procedures for Part A & Part B, "How many drops of water can fit on a penny?"


Agenda:
1. Handback work
2. PP notes to fill in for Penny lab (properties of water)
3. Demo: paperclips in a cup of water
4. Penny Mini Lab

Homework:
-Complete penny lab questions to turn in for Tues, Sept 28th

Quote:
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." ~Lily Tomlin

September 24, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please clear your desk for the Story of Drinking Water Quiz.  After you have finished the quiz, please get a textbook from the back shelf and in your regular notebooks answer question #13 on page 21. 


Agenda:
1. Continue with lab reports (30min)
2. Drops of water on a penny lab & notes

Homework:
-For Monday, have ALL lab questions completed for Foul Water Lab

Quote:
"Always forgive your enemies- nothing annoys them so much." ~Oscar Wilde

September 23, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please clear your desk for the metric conversions quiz!  When you are finished with the quiz, QUIETLY get a textbook from the back shelf and answer problems #6, 7, 9, 11 on pages 20-21.

Agenda:
1. Finish "The Story of Drinking Water" activity
2. Work on lab report in stations


Homework:
-Study for quiz- "The Story of Drinking Water"on Fri, 24th

Quote:
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." ~George Burns

September 22, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get a textbook from the back shelf and in your regular notebooks answer the following problems on pages 20-21: # 1 & 4.


Agenda:
1. Practice metric conversions
2. Activity: The Story of Drinking Water
3. Lab Reports


Homework:
-The Coming Water Crisis questions due TODAY!
-Metric conversions quiz Thurs, 23rd
-Story of Drinking Water activity quiz on Friday, 24th

Quote:
"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satsifaction." ~Anne Frank

September 21, 2010

Daily Questions:
In your notebooks, respond to the following question:  If you let the water run while brushing your teeth, explain how you are using water
a. directly
b. indirectly
Please put your responses in your regular notebooks.

Agenda:
1. Watch PWD movie
2. Review metrics worksheet
3. Work on lab reports

Homework:
-Questions from "The Coming Water Crisis" due Wed, 22nd
-QUIZ converting with metrics on Thurs, 23rd

Quote:
"Are you a dreamer or are you merely a part of someone's dream?" ~Alice in Wonderland

September 20, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please pick up the handout "Clean, Pure Water" from the front and read through it quietly at your seat.  When finished, get a piece of small scrap paper from me and record:

• 3 new things you learned in this article

• 2 questions you have about this article

• 1 thing that surprised you (the most)

We will get together in pairs to discuss the paper when everyone has finished.

Agenda:
1. Calculating water use totals
2. Watch PWD movie & answer questions
3. Use textbooks to help with answering lab report questions

Homework:
-"Water Supply & Demand" questions due today!!!!
-Read handout "The Coming Water Crisis" & answer questions - due Wed, 22nd

Quote: 
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." ~John Dewey

September 17, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get a textbook from the shelf in the back AND a half-piece of graph paper from the blue drawers on the side counter AND a ruler!  At your desks, begin creating a histogram like the one in your books on page 11.  Do NOT shade in any data, just make the outline of the data table, add labels on the axis, and a title.

Agenda:
**Block 2 - demo's of distillation & tyndall effect
1. Histograms for the lab report
2. Hand out description of the lab report, go over rubric
3. Read "Water Supply & Demand" paper & answer questions
4. Begin working on lab report
5. Hand back quizzes & recollect

Homework:
-Finish questions from "Water Supply & Demand" handout for Monday, 20th
- Continue answering lab questions in your notebooks
-Make up Safety/Expectations quiz by Friday, Sept 24

Quote:
"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine." ~ Robert C. Gallagher

September 16, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please pick up a textbook from the back shelf and quietly read pages 14-15 (section A.4) to yourself.  When you have finished, copy the questions  #1-3 from "Building Skills 1" in your regular notebooks (NOT the bound lab notebooks), then try answering these on your own in your notebooks.

Agenda:
1. Reading & taking notes from the book sections A.4 & A.5
2. Water distillation & the Tyndall effect demo's
3. Class data compilation - creating a histogram by calculating percent yield
4. Completing a lab report - answering some questions

Homework:
-Water logs due today (block 4 only)
-Turn in any parent forms

Quote:
"A person without a sense of humore is like a wagon without springs.  It's jolted by every pebble on the road." ~Henry Ward Beecher

September 15, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please pick up the handouts at the front near the door and read these quietly at your seats.

Agenda:
1. Purifying foul water lab
2. What is a lab report?

Homework:
-Get a comp notebook from me if you need it
-Bring in all parent signature forms ASAP
-Block 4 only - water log due Thurs, 16th

Quote:
"The time I kill is killing me." ~Mason Cooley

September 14, 2010

Daily Questions:
Block 2 - please get into your groups from yesterday and continue answering the questions from the Fish Kill scenerio.  Be ready to present your decisions to the class in ~20min.
Block 4 - Please pick up the handout on the desk by the door and quietly read the memo at your desk.  I will assign groups to work with shortly.

Agenda:
1. Prepare & present Fish Kill scenerio decisions.
2. Prep for Foul Water Lab experiment tomorrow

Homework:
-Poem due today!
-Water log due today (block 2)
-Water log due Thursday (block 4)
-Composition Notebooks ASAP!!!

Quote:
"A man who dares to waste an hour of time has not discovered the value of life." ~Charles Darwin

September 13, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please pick up the handout "Water, water everywhere" at the front of the room, return to your seat and quietly start creating a list at the bottom of the page of the direct and indirect uses of water to produce a can of fruit juice and a boiled egg.  First you will make your OWN list, then we will get into assigned groups and share ideas.

Agenda:
1. Assign stations & clean equipment (30min MAX)
2. Water clip from keynote video
3. Fish Kill scenerio handout & group work
4. Start presentations?

Homework:
-"I am From" Poem due Tues, 14th
-Water table use due Tues, 14th
-Have a lab notebook for class Tues, 14th

Quote:
"Excellence is not a skill.  It is an attitude." ~Ralph Marston

September 10, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please clear your desks for the quiz.  Turn in any homework or signed forms to the box.  Make sure your CELL PHONES are turned off & in backpacks.

Agenda:
1. Safety Quiz - when finished with it, turn it in to the homework box.
(BLOCK 2) Continue working on the metric conversion worksheet from yesterday after the quiz.  It needs to be turned in before the end of class TODAY.
(BLOCK 4) Pick up the metric conversion worksheet & begin working on conversions - use notes from yesterday's class.
2. Completing Gummy Bear Lab
3. Checking out lab stations & cleaning equipment
4. Introduce water unit (slideshow & handouts)

Homework:
-Turn in parent signature forms ASAP
-Metric conversion worksheet due before end of class today
-Poem due Tues, 14th
-Water use table due Tues, 14th
-COMPOSITION NOTEBOOKS for lab reports by Tues, 14th!!!!!  Come see me if this is a problem.

Quote:
"Weather forecast for tonight: dark." ~ George Carlin

September 9, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please copy the data table from the board onto a sheet of notepaper.  Rulers are on the lab counters, ALL data tables must be made with a straight-edge or ruler.

Agenda:
1. Homework folders location
2. (Block 4 only) Hand out parent- guardian consent form.
3. Handout Metric length notes to fill-in & watch slideshow
4. Handout metric volume notes to fill-in & watch slideshow
5. Assign lab stations & go over lab safety agreement form.
6. Set-up "Gummy Bear" mini-lab
7. Start homework: Metric conversion worksheet

Homework:
1. "About Me" due TODAY!
2. Any parent signature forms can be turned in
3. Safety & Expectations quiz on Friday, Sept 10th
4. Metric conversion worksheet due Friday, Sept 10th ??
5. Poem due Tuesday, Sept 14th

Quote:
"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week." ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr

September 8, 2010

Daily Questions:
WELCOME!  Posted here you will see the first expectations of the class when you arrive.

Agenda:
This will be a list of our planned activities/expectations for the day, for example:
1. Handout ChemCom Newsletter - follow on board
2. Handout Parent consent for course to be signed -- bonus points if returned before quiz on Friday!
3. Watch safety video & tour important classroom features
4. Handout "About Me"
5. Handout "I am From" poem & go over

Homework:
1. "About Me" due Thurs, Sept 9th (both front & back)
2. Safety Quiz on Friday, Sept 10th
3. "I am From" poem due Monday, Sept 13th
4. Have a BOUND composition lab notebook for Tues, Sept 14th

Quote:
"Respect yourself and others will respect you." ~Confucius