Day Forty Eight Overview
- the class took a unit test on the various topics that we covered in unit 2
- after the test the students watched the Planet Earth documentary "Ice Worlds" as a reward for their previous hard work
Ice Worlds
Homework
- get in your Facebook projects by Friday 12/21
- have a great break!
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Day Forty Seven Overview
Day Forty Seven Overview
- we began class by going over the review packet and answering any relevant questions
- after going over the packer we played a review football game on the Smartboard
- the winning team received bonus points on their upcoming test
Homework
- study for test!!!!!
- Facebook Project due Friday 12/21
Science News
Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Thoughts
- we began class by going over the review packet and answering any relevant questions
- after going over the packer we played a review football game on the Smartboard
- the winning team received bonus points on their upcoming test
Homework
- study for test!!!!!
- Facebook Project due Friday 12/21
Science News
Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Thoughts
Day Forty Six Overview
Day Forty Six Overview
- we began class with a warmup activity that asked the students to fill in the blanks of a review diagram
- after the warmup activity we spent class doing more practice balancing equations
- the practice involved using candy pieces to help visually demonstrate what it is like to balance an equation
Sweetly Balanced Equations
- once the activity was done the students were assigned review sheets for their upcoming test
- we also watched two short movie clips to help review some earlier concepts
Study Jams - Elements and Compounds
Study James - Mixtures
Unit 2 Review Sheet
Homework
- finish review sheet for next class
- Alka Seltzer Labs are due and should be turned in!
- Facebook Projects due Friday 12/21
Science News
Engineering Organs
- we began class with a warmup activity that asked the students to fill in the blanks of a review diagram
- after the warmup activity we spent class doing more practice balancing equations
- the practice involved using candy pieces to help visually demonstrate what it is like to balance an equation
Sweetly Balanced Equations
- once the activity was done the students were assigned review sheets for their upcoming test
- we also watched two short movie clips to help review some earlier concepts
Study Jams - Elements and Compounds
Study James - Mixtures
Unit 2 Review Sheet
Homework
- finish review sheet for next class
- Alka Seltzer Labs are due and should be turned in!
- Facebook Projects due Friday 12/21
Science News
Engineering Organs
Day Forty Five Overview
Day Forty Five Overview
- we started class by going over the Balancing Equations Worksheet
- after we went over the worksheet the students had the rest of the class as a work day for their Facebook projects
- most students used their time wisely and got quite a bit of work done in the period
Homework
- Alka Seltzer Lab due Friday 12/14
- Facebook Project 12/21
Science News
A Scrapbook of the Universe
- we started class by going over the Balancing Equations Worksheet
- after we went over the worksheet the students had the rest of the class as a work day for their Facebook projects
- most students used their time wisely and got quite a bit of work done in the period
Homework
- Alka Seltzer Lab due Friday 12/14
- Facebook Project 12/21
Science News
A Scrapbook of the Universe
Day Forty Four Overview
Day Forty Four Overview
- in this class the students learned both how to count atoms in compounds as well as how to balance equations
- the students were introduced to the Law of Conservation of Mass
- the Law of Conservation of Mass basically states that matter is never created or destroyed, atoms are just rearranged
- this was used as the basis for explaining to the students why they even need to balance equations
- the students were assigned a worksheet to help them practice balancing equations
Balancing Equations Worksheet
- we had some time at the end of class for the students to begin their homework and ask me questions if need be
- I also invited any students to come in and see me for extra help if they were confused
Homework
- Balancing Equations Sheet due next class
- Alka Seltzer Lab due Friday 12/14
- Facebook Project due Friday 12/21
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- in this class the students learned both how to count atoms in compounds as well as how to balance equations
- the students were introduced to the Law of Conservation of Mass
- the Law of Conservation of Mass basically states that matter is never created or destroyed, atoms are just rearranged
- this was used as the basis for explaining to the students why they even need to balance equations
- the students were assigned a worksheet to help them practice balancing equations
Balancing Equations Worksheet
- we had some time at the end of class for the students to begin their homework and ask me questions if need be
- I also invited any students to come in and see me for extra help if they were confused
Homework
- Balancing Equations Sheet due next class
- Alka Seltzer Lab due Friday 12/14
- Facebook Project due Friday 12/21
Science News
Mistletoe Helps Feed Forests
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Day Forty Three Overview
Day Forty Three Overview
- for a warm up the class looked over the steps for the experiment that the class had completed at the end of the previous period
- the class then completed their Alka Seltzer Labs
- the lab involved testing whether or not stirring or water temperature has an impact on the solubility of an Alka Seltzer tablet in water
- the students then answered questions involving what steps of the scientific method were used in the experiment
- when the students had completed the lab they were asked to complete 5 other experiments of their choosing based on the knowledge they has just acquired
Solubility Challenge
Homework
- Alka Seltzer Lab due Friday 12/14
- Facebook project due Friday 12/21
Science News
Turning Pull Into Push
- for a warm up the class looked over the steps for the experiment that the class had completed at the end of the previous period
- the class then completed their Alka Seltzer Labs
- the lab involved testing whether or not stirring or water temperature has an impact on the solubility of an Alka Seltzer tablet in water
- the students then answered questions involving what steps of the scientific method were used in the experiment
- when the students had completed the lab they were asked to complete 5 other experiments of their choosing based on the knowledge they has just acquired
Solubility Challenge
Homework
- Alka Seltzer Lab due Friday 12/14
- Facebook project due Friday 12/21
Science News
Turning Pull Into Push
Monday, December 10, 2012
Day Forty Two Overview
Day Forty Two Overview
- as a class we went over the homework assignment that dealt with using the solubility curves
- as a class we went over the homework assignment that dealt with using the solubility curves
- there was some initial confusion because there is quite a bit to read and be familiar with in one of these graphs but after going over each problem the students seemed much more comfortable
- after going over the homework we started working on a lab that dealt with the concept of solubility, something we had taken notes on the class period prior
- in class we started the lab and wrote up a procedure for what the students would work on the next day in class
- after the early stages of the lab the students took notes on the last two kinds of mixtures, suspensions and colloids
Homework
- Alka Seltzer Lab is due Friday 12/14
- Facebook project is due Friday 12/21
Science News
Thursday, December 6, 2012
New Gizmo Sign On
Ms. Krueger has graciously signed us up for another gizmo trial, that those of you who are still late with your labs can use.
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password: krueger
id: victorjuniorhighschool
password: krueger
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Day Forty One
Day Forty One
- warmed up with the question "If you were at home, how would you make something dissolve quicker than normal? What would you do?"
- students came up with great answers including ...
- heat the liquid
- break up pieces of what you dissolving
- add pressure
- we took notes on the specifics of solutions and also solubility
- introduced some new vocabulary
- solute
- solvent
- solubility
- saturated
- unsaturated
- showed the students solubility curves and how to use them to predict how much of a solute will dissolve in water (the solvent) at various temperatures
HW
- finish solubility graph worksheet (it will be checked next class)
Solubility Graph HW
Science News!
HYDROglyphics - Messages in Water
- warmed up with the question "If you were at home, how would you make something dissolve quicker than normal? What would you do?"
- students came up with great answers including ...
- heat the liquid
- break up pieces of what you dissolving
- add pressure
- we took notes on the specifics of solutions and also solubility
- introduced some new vocabulary
- solute
- solvent
- solubility
- saturated
- unsaturated
- showed the students solubility curves and how to use them to predict how much of a solute will dissolve in water (the solvent) at various temperatures
HW
- finish solubility graph worksheet (it will be checked next class)
Solubility Graph HW
Science News!
HYDROglyphics - Messages in Water
Day Forty Overview
Day Forty Overview
- warmed up with the question "Why do we not just have elements everywhere? Isn't everything we need made of elements? Why would we need anything else?"
- students gave great answers, mostly dealing with the concept that even though everything is made of elements we mostly use those elements as "building blocks" for the molecules that are used in life
- we then took notes on what a compound is and why they are important
- we listed some important compounds
- compounds must ...
- be chemically combined
- can only be separated chemically
- have unique properties from the elements that form them
Compounds Video
HW
- make up any late work
- begin thinking about your favorite element, start to do some research that you would use in a future project about that favorite element
Science News
Quantum Thermodynamics - How Atoms Soak Up Their Surroundings
- warmed up with the question "Why do we not just have elements everywhere? Isn't everything we need made of elements? Why would we need anything else?"
- students gave great answers, mostly dealing with the concept that even though everything is made of elements we mostly use those elements as "building blocks" for the molecules that are used in life
- we then took notes on what a compound is and why they are important
- we listed some important compounds
- compounds must ...
- be chemically combined
- can only be separated chemically
- have unique properties from the elements that form them
Compounds Video
HW
- make up any late work
- begin thinking about your favorite element, start to do some research that you would use in a future project about that favorite element
Science News
Quantum Thermodynamics - How Atoms Soak Up Their Surroundings
Day Thirty Nine Overview
Day Thirty Nine Overview
- worked on a marshmallow atom activity
- reinforced how to find protons, neutrons, and electrons
- students had to interpret a model marshmallow atom and make their own model
Marshmallow Atoms
- after making their atoms the students worked on transferring their notes from the first day of the unit into their note packets
HW
- make up any late work
Science News
Visualizing the Structures of Molecules
- worked on a marshmallow atom activity
- reinforced how to find protons, neutrons, and electrons
- students had to interpret a model marshmallow atom and make their own model
Marshmallow Atoms
- after making their atoms the students worked on transferring their notes from the first day of the unit into their note packets
HW
- make up any late work
Science News
Visualizing the Structures of Molecules
Day Thirty Eight Overview
Day Thirty Eight Overview
- warmed up with a challenge to the student where I asked "how many atoms are in one grain of salt?"
- students were amazed by the number, 120,000,000,000,000,000!
- the students watched a TedTalk video which explained just how small an atom is through the use of analogies
Just How Small is an Atom?
- students took notes on what the information in a periodic table square actually means
Element Atomic Info Notes
- students were then able to take a square on the periodic table and figure out exactly how many protons, neutrons, and electrons are in one atom of that elements
- they were able to do this by using the atomic number and the atomic mass
- students practiced this skill with a few elements on the periodic table
- the students then used the information they had determined, and applied it to drawing pictures of atoms of specific elements
HW
- draw a picture of one atom of an element with an atomic number greater than 10
- it will be checked the next day in class
Science News
Oil-Dispersing Chemicals Had Little Effect on Gulf Oil Spill
- warmed up with a challenge to the student where I asked "how many atoms are in one grain of salt?"
- students were amazed by the number, 120,000,000,000,000,000!
- the students watched a TedTalk video which explained just how small an atom is through the use of analogies
Just How Small is an Atom?
- students took notes on what the information in a periodic table square actually means
Element Atomic Info Notes
- students were then able to take a square on the periodic table and figure out exactly how many protons, neutrons, and electrons are in one atom of that elements
- they were able to do this by using the atomic number and the atomic mass
- students practiced this skill with a few elements on the periodic table
- the students then used the information they had determined, and applied it to drawing pictures of atoms of specific elements
HW
- draw a picture of one atom of an element with an atomic number greater than 10
- it will be checked the next day in class
Science News
Oil-Dispersing Chemicals Had Little Effect on Gulf Oil Spill
Day Thirty Seven Overview
Day Thirty Seven Overview
- took 10 minutes or so to clean out binders
- we kept both previous note packets and our vocab sheet in our binders
- began taking notes on the Introduction to Elements
Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures Note Packet
- we did not have note packets in yet so we took notes on a separate sheet of paper
- what is a metal, non-metal, and metalloid
- gave the students some examples of each
HW
- make up any late work (gizmos, stories, tests/quizzes)
Science News
New Way to Protect Historic Limestone Buildings
- took 10 minutes or so to clean out binders
- we kept both previous note packets and our vocab sheet in our binders
- began taking notes on the Introduction to Elements
Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures Note Packet
- we did not have note packets in yet so we took notes on a separate sheet of paper
- what is a metal, non-metal, and metalloid
- gave the students some examples of each
HW
- make up any late work (gizmos, stories, tests/quizzes)
Science News
New Way to Protect Historic Limestone Buildings
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