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
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
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
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
Thursday, November 18, 2010
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
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
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
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
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
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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
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
Monday, November 15, 2010
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
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
Friday, November 12, 2010
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
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
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
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
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
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
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
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
Friday, November 5, 2010
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
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
Thursday, November 4, 2010
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
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
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
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
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
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
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
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
Monday, November 1, 2010
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
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
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