Monday, December 20, 2010

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

Thursday, December 16, 2010

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

Friday, December 10, 2010

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

Thursday, December 9, 2010

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


Wednesday, December 8, 2010

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

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

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

Monday, December 6, 2010

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

Friday, December 3, 2010

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

Thursday, December 2, 2010

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

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

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