YOU CAN HAVE ADVENTURES

Students and Parents:

Looking ahead to the coming academic year, what should you expect from science coursework?  What's the point of taking science, anyway?  Where could studying Biology, Chemistry or Physics ultimately take you?

Back in 2016, I was the subject of a profile by local news station KSEE 24.   They had learned some things about my career as a science teacher, and they were intrigued by how I answered questions like that.  

It may seem corny, but the truth is that learning can be an intellectual adventure---a 'voyage of the mind'----and the results of that learning can lead to actual physical adventures!

HOW?

POWER POINT NOTES: CARBON, THE 'SHAPE OF LIFE'

Students:

You are now beginning your Final Unit of the year, on Organic Chemistry.  This is the branch of chemistry based on the element carbon.  This is not only essential for living things, but heavily-involved in many important concerns of modern life, including the use of fossil fuels and patterns of climate change, all topics in Volume 2 of your text.

To help students prepare for their Final, please find these Power Point Notes HERE, along with a PDF of the Study Guide based on those notes HERE.

Students should also have a copy of the Organic Compounds Guide (three-hole punched) as part of their materials in to be prepared to answer questions on their FINAL.

POWER POINT NOTES: ELECTROCHEMISTRY

Students:  HERE are Power Point Notes on Redox Reactions and Electrochemistry.

        HERE is the STUDY GUIDE based on these Notes.

VIDEO: ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM

Students should have been given the worksheet based on this video prior to Spring Break.  In the video, Paul Andersen demonstrates the centrality of water to most acid-base chemistry, and explains how to calculate equilibrium constants for acids (Ka) and bases (Kb), and how to express those as pKa's or pKb's:

POWER POINT NOTES: ACIDS, BASES AND SALTS

Mr.Hatfield's Chemistry students should have completed their Notes on material related to pg. 146-171 (volume 2) of their textbook.   They can download a copy of the Power Point containing those Notes HERE:

Students received a Study Guide based upon this section of Notes on March 22.  This Study Guide will be completed before Spring Break.  After Spring Break, Mr. Hatfield's classes will complete their titration labs and have a Unit Test on equilibrium, solutions, acids, bases and salts. 

POWER POINT NOTES: CHEMICAL KINETICS

Students, here are the Power Point Notes on Chemical Kinetics, which covers the concept of equilibrium and the rates of reaction.


The Study Guide has been made available in class since Friday, March 17th.  If you need to get another copy, you can download a PDF version of the Study Guide HERE.

UNIT 6 is now over, and all Unit 6 work is PAST DUE, and will NOT be accepted after Friday,  March 24th  

VIDEO: EQUILIBRIUM

In this video, Paul Anderson does a great job of providing a demonstration that suggests how chemical systems reach equilibrium.




Mr. Anderson also models how to equilibrium setups and solve for the value of the equilibrium constant, 'K'.  Students were given a worksheet based on this video in Friday's class, along with a set of problems in which they will practice setting up equilibrium expressions.

This is a short topic, and the notes on Chemical Kinetics should be finished within the same day as viewing the video.  Both items should be treated as homework, and completed as soon as possible.

POWER POINT NOTES: THERMOCHEMISTRY

Students, you can download the Power Point Notes for next weeks's Unit Test on Thermochemistry by either clicking HERE or on the graphic below:

Students should use this to complete their Study Guide, which is due this week, in order to prepare for next week's UNIT TEST!

VIDEO: ENTHALPY OF REACTION

The following video by Paul Anderson was introduced in class on Thursday, May 2nd.   It helpfully reviews some of the information already given in lecture regarding heat and the enthalpy of reactions. It also features a very handy, step-by-step demonstration of how to apply Hess's Law (a SUBTLE and advanced topic) to calculate enthalpies.




Students have an assignment based on that video, which is available HERE as a PDF file.

VIDEO: TEMPERATURE

As we transition from our 'Kinetic Theory of Gases' to our unit on Thermochemistry, it is still important to consider that the random, dynamic motion of a very large set of tiny (sub-MICROSCOPIC) particles produces the phenomena we can observe at our own, relatively large (MACROSCOPIC) scale, like pressure and temperature.

Paul Anderson demonstrates this in the following video.  Students will receive an accompanying worksheet based upon it!

UNIT 6 SYLLABUS

 

POWER POINT NOTES: KINETIC THEORY OF GASES

Here are the second set of Power Point Notes from our current unit.  Use them to prepare your personalized, detailed notes in your Composition Book for Friday's Test.

VIDEO: GASES

Paul Anderson helps us out again.   This video has a great set of demonstrations using a set of interactive animations.   Students are expected to complete a worksheet based on this video:







 The simulation that Mr. Anderson uses in the video can be accessed online, at the University of Colorado, HERE:

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POWER POINT: STOICHIOMETRY OF FLUIDS

Students: HERE are the Power Point Notes on 'Stoichiometry of Fluids' given in the first two weeks of Unit 5, the first unit of the Spring 2023 Semester in Mr. Hatfield's Chemistry classes.   

This section of notes covers problems having to do with molar volumes of gases, limiting reactants and percent yield, molar concentrations and other properties of solutions.   A Study Guide based on these notes is available HERE in PDF form.

VIDEO: SOLUTIONS

Students can watch Paul Andersen's discussion of solutions and their properties as many times as needed here, on-line, in the video embedded below:




Students can also access the PDF version of the worksheet given in class, based on this video, HERE.

UNIT 5 SYLLABUS: STOICHIOMETRY OF FLUIDS

Students: here is the current Syllabus for Unit 5, beginning the Spring Semester.  Please note that all students are expected to review and demonstrate competency in the math routines rehearsed in the Fall Semester, and that students may be expected to attend Saturday School on Saturday, January 21st, if they are deficient.