Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Acids and Bases in Solutions

Today: We are pH testing a variety of substances using litmus paper and cabbage juice indicator solution.

Finish taking your notes on the properties of acids and bases in your notebook.  Turn in your note taking guide from textbook p.268-279.

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Mixtures!

Due Today: Messin' with Mixtures lab

Use your Cornell Notes on Solutions and Solubility (text p.256-267) to help you identify the solutes and solvents in the lab and check with your table partner. 

Today, we will review the properties of mixtures and identify various household items as colloids, suspensions, or solutions.  Be prepared to defend your claim with observable evidence! 

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Elements, Compounds, Mixtures, Solutions, and Molecules

EQ: How are the properties of matter used to separate different substances in mixtures and solutions?

Log in to Google Classroom.  After examining the jar. Draw a diagram on IAN p.128.

Make a table and list of each of the materials it contains.  Describe the properties of each and the technique you would use to separate each unique substance.  Organize your notes on IAN p.129

Summarize by answering the Essential Question.

We are learning about the difference between mixtures and solutions.  Take notes on the illustrated sheet.

Next, we are reviewing how to read chemical formulas and counting atoms in molecules.  Illustrate the atoms that make up each molecule in on p.130.  Reading the formulas and balancing chemical equations will be next on p.131.

Friday, December 18, 2015

Periodic Table of Elements and Bonding

Today, our Periodic Table Basics Project is due and we are taking an open note quiz.
We'll correct and review before we leave.
Notebooks are due after the break!

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Periodic Table of Elements

We have watched a great video, Hunting the Elements and taken notes on the radioactive elements and synthetic elements.

We have color coded the family groups of elements on the table and reviewed the properties they have in common.

So now, we are working in groups to get to know a few elements that are representative of their family groups.

Once your group has finished the research, you will present this information to your peers.
 They will take the notes on their copies of the element "trading cards."

These will be used for you and your table partner to build a basic version of the periodic table to use for your partner quiz on Friday.

Go to Google Classroom to get more details...

Friday, December 11, 2015

Radioactive Dating

No, it's not about socializing...
We're watching a short video about Marie Curie and the elements she discovered.  Then we are doing a little discovery activity about half-life.  Finally, do your reading on radioactive elements and complete the notetaking guide to explain what exactly is coming out of radioactive elements and we use them.

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Atomic Structure

We watched movies and finished our notes.
We watched Bill Nye on Atoms.
Then we moved into this Century.
See atoms
See a boy and his atom.