Unit 4 Day 3: Blue 10/25 and Silver 10/26

Agenda:
Warm up
Puzzle activity
Swap and Drop Lecture and worksheet

Homework:
Finish swap and drop worksheet

Warm up:
1.  Define ionic bond.
2.  Why do atoms form bonds?
3.  Why do ionic compounds have higher melting points than covalent compounds?

Unit 4 Day 2: Blue 10/23, Silver 10/24

Agenda:
Essential Skill Quiz
Bonding Investigation
Mole Day Celebration, moles due
Sound of Bronze Video, questions

Homework:  None
Unit 3 RETAKE TEST 10/31

Warm up:
1.  How can you determine the type of bond that will form between two elements?
2.  What is the difference between a non polar covalent bond and a polar covalent bond?

Blue Friday 10/19 and Silver Monday 10/22

Agenda:
Return Tests and Assignments
Review Test
Corrective quiz
Unit 4 Notes and Vocabulary

Homework:
Finish Vocabulary

Warm up:
No warm up today

Blue Wed 10/17 and Silver Thurs 10/18

Agenda:
Unit 3 Test

Homework:
None

Warm up:
No warm up today

Blue Friday 10/12 and Silver Tuesday 10/16

Agenda:
Essential Skill Quiz, insurance
Counting by weighing activity
Study guide

Homework: 
Finish all assignments and study guide
Study for test

Warm up:
Convert 1.2 x 1023 atoms of Na to grams of Na.
Convert 56.2 grams of water to molecules of water.

Blue Wednesday 10/10 and Silver Thursday 10/11

Unit 3 Test:  Blue Day 10/17,  Silver Day 10/18

Honors Unit 2 Retake Test:  Friday 10/19

Agenda:
Review Converting grams to mol
Essential Skill Quiz #3
Lecture:  Converting atoms to grams
Essential Skill #4 Worksheet

Warm up:
1. How many moles are in 6 grams of carbon-12?
2. What was the purpose of counting and weighing the rice and beans?

Homework:
Finish Essential Skill #4 Worksheet

Blue Monday 10/8 and Silver Tuesday 10/9

Day 3
Agenda:
1.  Review atom to mole converstions
2.  Essential Skill #2 quiz
3.  Counting Activity
4.  Mole to gram conversions
5.  Essential Skill #3 Worksheet

Homework:
Finish Essential Skill #3 Worksheet

Warm up:
1.  What is Avagadro's number?
2.  Define mole (not the same answer as #1).
3.  What does 1 mole equal?
4.  You have .5 mol water, how many water molecules are there?

Blue Thurs 10/4 and Silver Friday 10/5

Agenda:
1.  Review "bridge method" of unit conversions
2. Introduce mole equality and conversions
3.  Essential Skill #2 Worsheet
4.  Make a Mol Extra Credit

Homework:  Finish Essential Skill #2 Worksheet
Study for Retake test.  Complete Moodle Form

Warm up:
1. Write the equality between mL and L.
2.  Write the 2 converstion factors from the equality in question 1.
3.  Using the "bridge method", convert 3400 mL to L.

Blue Tues 10/2 and Silver Wed 10/3

Agenda:
Review Unit Notes pages 1-3
Complete Introduction to Conversions Worksheet

Homework:
Finish Introduction to Conversions Worksheet

Warm up:
Which is bigger?
1.  liter or mililiter
2.  miligram or gram
3.  meter or kilometer
4.  centimeter or milimeter
Give an example of an object that it would be appropriate to measure in the following units?
5.  milimeter
6.  Liter
7.  meter
8.  centimeter

Friday September 28th and Monday October 1st

Unit 2 Test Returned
Corrective quiz
Grades are updated on edline. 
If you did not pass your essential skill, come in at plus or lunch. 
The new plus cycle starts Wednesday.

Homework:  None

Wednesday Septermber 26 and Thursday September 27

Test Day!!
All unit assignments turned in.

Homework:  None

Monday September 24 and Tuesday September 25

Warm up:
Get out unit notes, complete all questions in the left hand column of the "cornell notes".

Homework:
Unit 2 Test is NEXT CLASS
Study and complete all assignments

Honors Chemistry:
Watch videos
Complete worksheets
Honors test is Friday 9/28 and Monday 10/1

Thursday September 20 and Friday September 21

Warm up:
Which element is represented by the electron configuration:
1.  1s2 2s2 2p3
2.  1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6
3.  1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s2 3d1
Calculate the molecular mass of
4.  NH3
5.  3CO3

Homework:
Regular chemistry:  none
Honors chemistry: watch video on moodle

Tuesday 9/18 and Wednesday 9/19

Sorry for not updating this blog in a while.  I will work on that.
Warm up:
1.  What is the most electronegative element on the periodic table?
2.  Which side of the periodic table do the elements want to lose electrons?  gain electrons?
3.  How many energy levels does S have?  He have?

Homework:
Regular chemistry:  none
Honors chemistry:  watch video on moodle

Thursday 9/6 and Fight Song Friday 9/7

TEST DAY!!
All Unit 1 Assignments are due today!

Homework:
Finish Coloring the Periodic Table.
These groups need to be colored with a different color.
Be sure to inclue a key.
Use your text book, back cover and pages 129-139
Metalloids
Halogens
Noble Gases
Alkali Metals
Alkaline Earth Metals
Lanthanides
Actinides
Transition Metals

Wednesday 8/29 Blue Day and Thursday 8/30 Silver Day

Warm up:
1.  How does an atom become
      a.  an isotope?
      b.  an ion?
2.  Which subatomic particle can never change?
3.  Define potential energy.

Important Date:  Unit 1 Test Thursday 9/6 for Blue Day,  Friday 9/7 for Silver Day

Homework:
Chemistry:  Finish Half Life Worksheet (only half life side, not nuclear chem side).
Honors Chemistry: 
% Abundance
      Go to Honors Chemistry Moodle Website
      Watch the % Abundance video
      Try to complete the 2-3 problems of the % Abundance worksheet. 
      I will go over this concept next class, it will help if you come with some prior      
              knowledge and questions.
Webquest
     Go to Honors Chemistsry Moodle Website
     Watch the 2 videos about the discovery of the atom
     Complete the moodle quiz
     This assignment is due by the test date.

Friday 8/24 Blue Day and Monday 8/27 Silver Day

Warm up:
For the element:  Carbon, write the
1.  Atomic number
2.  Atomic mass
3.  Mass number
Determine the number of
4. protons
5. electrons
6. neutrons
7.  Draw a representation of this atom

Homework:
Define vocabulary (the list of words is on the assignment sheet)
Honors homework:  Watch the 2 web quest videos and answer take the webquest moodle quiz
                                This needs to be done by the test day.

Wednesday Blue 8/22 and Thursday Silver 8/23

Warm Up: 
1.  What are the 2 regions of the atom?
2.  What 3 subatomic particles make up the atom?
3a.  On the periodic table, what is the symbol for the element copper?
3b.  What 2 numbers are in the box on the periodic table for copper?

Homework:
Go to the moodle site and log in.
     Watch the Flame Test video.
     Complete the Flame Test question link.
On separate sheet of paper, write your own question/purpose of the Flame Test Lab

Tuesday, August 21: Thunder Day

Welcome!
       What choices did you make today?
       What choices will you make tomorrow?
Homework:  Get syllabus signed, due next class
                    Create Moodle account.
                           Go to the website:  rusdscience.com
                           Acess key:  demaria5, for period 5
                                             demaria7, for period 7
                                             demaria4, for period 4
                                             demaria6, for period 6
                                             demaria8, for period 8