Monday, October 29, 2018

VIDEO: THE MOLE

Students:  here is Paul Anderson's video, as shown in Tuesday's class, explaining the concept of the mole with helpful illustrations:



Student should use this video to complete a worksheet given in class, which is also available online HERE.

SYLLABUS, UNIT 3: THE MOLE

OK, Students!  Halloween's right around the corner!  Then Veterans Day!  Then Thanksgiving!

There's going to be plenty of holidays, in fact. 

Which is why WE NEED TO GET OUR WORK IN, NOW.

With that said, this is a shorter Unit, and there's going to be work to do, every day.  (Even Saturday, if you are assigned Saturday School):





Monday, October 15, 2018

STUDY HALL STARTS THIS WEEK


We are now in the second quarter, and a certain percentage of students are not completing their work outside of class, or otherwise struggling to do well in the course.  As the above picture shows, more than half the semester (45 days) have gone by, and it is time to do something about these students, to provide them with academic support.

These students have been assigned Study Hall, at lunch.   Students were given official notice via School Messenger and also received a physical note in class on Monday, October 15th.

These students will be in Study Hall on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday until they have raised their grade in Chemistry to a passing grade. 

NOTE:  This Thursday, October 18th, is the student's next major Unit Test.   Have they completed their Study Guides and used them to make sure their Notes are complete?  Have they read Chapters 5-7 and answered all the Section Assessment questions for extra credit?  Are they completing their homework assignments?

Saturday, October 13, 2018

POWER POINT: ELECTRON CONFIGURATION

Students, here is the Power Point for the second group of notes for Unit 2, on electron configuration, orbitals, models of the atom, and rules for electrons:



Students should use this along with the previous section of Notes to complete the Study Guide for next Thursday's test (10/18), and along the way make sure that everything in the Study Guide does, in fact, appear in their notes.

Thursday, October 4, 2018

VIDEO: FLAME TEST LAB

If students were absent on the day we were guests in Mr. Fischer or Mr. Diaz's classroom, they did not get to see the actual lab where we performed a 'flame test' on various ionic compounds.   

Here is a video that shows much the same sort of observations students made on Wednesday or Thursday.   Unfortunately, it is not practical to 'make up' the lab, due to the work that still needs to be done to bring N-25 'up to speed'.   Watch the video, students, and compare it with observations that students who attended were able to make in order to understand the material: