WEEK 11 AT A GLANCE

STUDENTS:  Here is our latest 'Week At A Glance" for Chemistry.   

Please NOTE:  Due to District Teacher Trainings and proximity to Spring Break, STUDENT SUPPORT is only offered on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. 

WEEK 10 AT A GLANCE

 

VIDEO NOTES: CHEMICAL REACTIONS AND STOICHIOMETRY

In this VIDEO, Mr. Hatfield discusses content from sections 9.1 and 9.2 (chemical reactions, chemical equations) and sections 10.1 and 10.2 (balancing equations and stoichiometry):

Mr. Hatfield wishes to emphasize that a very large number of his students have not mastered important material in these chapters, ideas and skills that are used constantly throughout the rest of the course.

This graphic, also shared through TEAMS, list important recent topics in the course, including when they were covered in class and referencing relevant pages of the text:

VIDEO: THREE STEP PROBLEM

In this VIDEO, Mr. Hatfield demonstrates how to map an equation for a three-step problem (gram to moles, moles to moles, moles to grams) and then produces the setup based on that map to solve for an unknown number of grams:

WEEK 9 AT A GLANCE

 

VIDEOS: RETURNING TO IN-PERSON LEARNING

Students:  in today's Advisory, I provided information about the district's plan to begin a phased-in return to in-person learning following Spring Break, on April 6th.  This information includes a short summary of the district's status and intentions from Superintendent Bob Nelson, which is available HERE.

I also provided a link to a VIDEO that I've made, called 'Red Tape On The Floor', which was made in the summer of 2020.   This video is still quite timely, and outlines the challenges that students and teachers will face when they attempt to return to in-person learning in classrooms like mine, that were designed for class sizes much smaller than those they are presently expected to support.   

My position has always been that high class sizes create problems for classroom safety, long before the global pandemic:

Overall, I believe students and their families should want to learn more about the classroom settings available at their school sites before making decisions about whether to return their child to in-person learning in April.  As your teacher, it is my duty to return and I will work to do everything in my power to promote safety in the classroom.  That's really part of the science teacher's tool kit.

Further clarification and more details on the district's plan on how to return to in-person, simultaneous learning are expected to be released this week and in the following week.   As more details become available, I will share them with students and on this blog.  In the meantime, I have also made a Power Point of slides and links related to this post available to all students through a post in your Teams channel.

WEEK 8 AT A GLANCE