VIDEO: THE BUNSEN BURNER

Mr. Hatfield has made a video to demonstrate the correct way to use the Bunsen burner.  Make sure you review this before you come to class on Monday, as we will be using the Bunsen burners in class to perform the flame test lab.

VIDEO: BRIGHT LINE SIMULATION DEMO

In this video, Mr. Hatfield models how to use the on-line simulation that is part of our 'Bright Line Spectra' introduced in Friday's class.

The simulation itself can be found HERE.

 

POWER POINT NOTES: The Elemental Pattern

STUDENTS: This Power Point supports the notes on the periodic table, focusing especially on periodic trends related to the electron configuration of the different elements.  

Use this information to complete your Study Guide, which will form PART of the basis of your Unit 3 Notes.  (There will be a SECOND Study Guide in this Unit).

POWER POINT NOTES: THE FLAVORS OF MATTER

Students:  HERE are the revised Power Point Notes for Unit 2, 'The Flavors of Matter'.

The Unit 2 Test is

Tuesday, October 4th!

You should be using these slides to complete your Unit 2 Study Guide of the same title.   

That Study Guide should be handed in before the beginning of Thursday's class in order to ensure that you have plenty of time to create your personalized, detailed copy of the notes in your Composition Book.

UPDATE: UNIT 2 SYLLABUS

STUDENTS: due to the disruption of classes caused by both alarms and attendance, Mr. Hatfield is revising the present Unit Syllabus.  

Four items have been removed, and about half of the remaining assignments have been reordered.  

Please notice, however, that you are STILL expected to hand in your completed Unit 2 Study Guide this week, and you are STILL expected to take your Unit 2 exam on Tuesday, October 4th.

VIDEO: 'THE LIVES OF THE STARS'

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The following episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos, 'The Lives of the Stars', forms the basis of a student homework assignment given in class on Friday, September 23rd.

 

  It can be viewed on-line currently HERE.

VIDEO: 'DRAWING ATOMS, HATFIELD STYLE'

In this VIDEO, Mr. Hatfield demonstrates his flat, two-dimensional, cartoony and unrealistic way to draw atoms. But that's not a bad thing.

Atoms don't 'look like' anything in the real world, so every attempt to draw them is going to be unrealistic in some sense: they're smaller than visibile light, after all!

But, Mr. Hatfield's way of drawing atoms does allow you to distinguish at a glance between the internal structure of a standard neutral atom, an ion or an isotope---and that can make all the difference in understanding the way that different substances (elements and compounds) actually behave.