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