Tuesday, January 4, 2011

January 4, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get a small piece of paper from the front & write your name on the top.  We're having a short pop quiz. 

Agenda:
1. Keynote - Chemical Composition - the mole
2. Mole calculation worksheet - start for homework

Homework:
1. Mole Calculation worksheet due Wed, 5th
2. Late work due Fri, 7th
3. Dimensional Analysis quiz on Friday, 7th
4. Make up Test 3 by Monday, 10th

Quote:
"Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package." ~Unknown

Monday, January 3, 2011

January 3, 2011

Daily Questions:
Please get a piece of paper from the front and write down 1-2 new year's resolutions you would like to achieve.

Agenda:
1. Seating change
2. Hand back work, upcoming late work deadlines...
3. Pearson PP slides 1-15
4. Unit conversions worksheet - finish for hmwk

Homework:
-Bring a sci. calculator if you have one the rest of the semester
-Bring your laptops to class the rest of the semester
-Complete worksheet "Unit Conversions" for Tues, 4th
-QUIZ on Friday, 7th - dimensional analysis
-Deadline for MU work for Test 3 work is Friday, 7th


Quote:
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you were to live forever." ~Mahatma Ghandi

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