5/21-5/25
Students will define bias.
Students will relate bias to scientific experiments.
Students will describe sampling bias and measurement bias.
Students will look at different experiments and determine the type and cause of bias involved.
Students will design an experiment that contains the lest amount of bias.
Students will define the food chain.
Students will discuss the relationship between living things in the food chain.
Students will define DDT.
5/14-5/18
Boyles/Charles Law PHET Lab.
Students will complete and online lab using the gas laws.
5/7-5/11
Students will solve solve for pressure (pressure conversions).
Students will watch a short video clip on Boyle's Law.
Students will determine the relationship of volume and pressure of gases as it relates to Boyle's Law.
Students will discuss the direct relationship between volume and temperature of a gas when pressure is kept constant.
Students will define and discuss Charles' Law
Students will define the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature using the combined gas law.
Students will practice solving for pressure, volume and temperature using the combined gas law.
4/30-5/4
Students will finish watching National Geographic video.
Students will present State of Matter Projects.
Students will watch a short educational streaming video clip on the Earth's atmosphere.
Students will begin a graphing activity comparing the temperature and altitude of the 4 layers of our atmosphere.
Students will discuss and answer questions relating to their graph.
Students will define pressure and discuss the kinetic theory aspect.
Students will draw a barometer and analyze how it works.
Students will relate pressure to blood pressure and the heart chambers.
4/23-4/27
Students will work on group projects relating states of matter to how certain items work.
Students will research comets, freeze drying, fluorescent lamps, LCDs, plasma cutters and aerosol cans.
4/16-4/20
Vocab WS
Study for Ch. 10 Vocab Quiz
Vocabulary Quiz
Introduction to Chapter 10 Lab Centers
Chapter 10 Lab Centers:
4/9-4/13
Students will complete paperclip/straw competition.
Students will watch a short video clip on glass blowing and discuss why it is an amorphous solid.
Students will define and discuss kinetic energy as it relates to temperature.
Students will define absolute zero and its implications
Students will compare/contrast freezing and melting point.
Students will compare/contrast heat of fusion and heat of vaporization.
Students will discuss diffusion as it relates to blood gas analysis.
3/26-3/30
Introduction to Chapter 10: The Kinetic Theory of Matter
Students will view an educational streaming video: Phases of Matter in order to build background knowledge.
Students will answer questions to a video quiz as well as discussing questions related to the video.
Students will relate the properties of a liquid, solid and gas to the kinetic theory of matter.
Students will distinguish among an amorphous material, liquid crystal and plasma.
Students will read as a class about glass sculptures, page 346, of the the text and answer questions.
3/19-3/23
Students will begin the Mole Lab.
Students will solve pre-lab mole, gram and molecule problems.
3/12-3/16
How big is a mole of atoms activity.
Students will begin to learn how to perform dimensional analysis.
S tudents will learn how to determine the amount of moles needed as a reactant or product in a balanced chemical equation.
Students will practice determining the mole to mole relationship with a worksheet.
3/5-3/9
Begin mole packet.
Students will participate in activity to describe how large one mole is.
2/27-3/2
Chapter 6 Lab Centers:
2/20-2/24
Students will describe chemical reactions.
Students will describe the effect of concentration limiting reagent, catalyst and inhibitor on a chemical reaction.
Students will write definitions and sentences for Chapter 6 vocabulary
Chapter 6 Vocabulary WS
Study for Chapter 6 Vocab Quiz
Chapter 6 Vocabulary Quiz
Students will read about the production of ammonia and answer questions.
2/13-2/17
Students will learn how to balance chemical equations.
Teacher will model balancing chemical equations.
Students will practice balancing chemical equations using a WS.
Chemical Equation WS
Must show all work.
Students will describe the 5 types of chemical reactions: Synthesis, Decomposition, Single Displacement, Double Displacement and Combustion.
2/6-2/10
Introduction to Chemical Reactions:
Students will fill in an ABC activity on the smart board to determine their background knowledge about chemical reactions.
Students will watch a short video on educational streaming to observe different types of chemical reactions
1/30-2/3
Study for Chapter 5 Vocab Quiz
Chapter 5 Vocab Quiz
Students will be introduced to Chapter 5 Lab Centers
Chapter 5 Lab Centers:
1/23-1/27
Hydrate Magic Demonstration
Students will define hydrates as well as naming them and writing their chemical formulas
Ionic Compound Lab (periods 5 & 8)
Students will practice making formulas for ionic compounds
Students will discuss covalent compounds.
Students will practice naming covalent compounds as well as writing formulas from names.
Students will discuss acids, bases and hydrocarbons.
Students will define allotropes.
Students will observe the ozone hole in our atmosphere and discuss why it has occured as well as how the ozone layer was created.
1/9-1/13
Students will review ions with an ion 2 worksheet.
Students will complete Chapter 4 Lab Centers
Due today: Chapter 4 Lab Centers
Ion 2 Worksheet
Students will discuss binary ionic compounds.
Students will practice naming and writing binary compounds.
Students will define polyatomic ions and transition elements as ions.
Students will practice writing formulas and naming compounds with the associated ions.
1/2-1/6
Students will review ionic and covalent compounds by completing a vocabulary sheet.
Introduction to Chapter 4 Lab Centers:
12/19-12/23
The Formation of Ionic Compounds Lab
Students will use manipulatives to determine compounds of specific ions.
Students will define covalent bonds.
Students will describe properties of covalent compounds.
12/12-12/16
Students will analyze the properties of hydrogen and oxygen.
Students will watch a video: Simply Science: Water the Highway of Life and complete a video quiz.
Begin Chapter 4
Students will identify properties of elements and properties of the compounds they form.
Students will discover that sodium chloride and carbon dioxide properties are different from the elements that form them.
Students will identify the properties of water and it's component elements: oxygen and hydrogen.
Students will compare/contrast carbon dioxide and water.
Students will be introduced to the formation of compounds.
Students will describe how compounds are formed.
Students will compare/contrast elements and the respective ions.
Students will learn how to determine and solve for oxidation numbers.
Students will analyze how ionic compounds are formed.
Students will solve for ionic compuonds using the ions used to form them.
Begin Ionic Compound WS.
12/5-12/9
Chapter 3 Lab Centers
Chapter 3 Bingo Review
11/28-12/2
Thanksgiving Break
Students will learn about the development of the periodic table beginning with triads.
Students will compare/contrast today's periodic table with Mendelev's periodic table
Students will work on vocabulary worksheet in class.
Students will learn how to use the periodic table by periods and groups.
Students will classify types of elements by groups.
Class will begin to label their own periodic table.
Finish Vocab Packet
Vocabulary quiz Friday
Vocabulary quiz
Students will begin a periodic table activity in pairs.
11/21-11/25
11/14-11/18
Element quiz on Discovery streaming
Students will access their prior knowledge of elements on the periodic table
.Students will begin an activity which will help them become familiar with the elements on the periodic table.
Begin working on periodic table packet.
Periodic Table Lab
In order to understand how the periodic table was designed, students will use food to design the most "compact" periodic table.
Students will answer questions regarding the difficulty of their task.
11/7-11/11
Students will be introduced to the Bohr Model and Lewis dot diagram of an atom using the periodic table.
Students will practice draw diagrams and models.
Students will watch an electromagnetic spectrum video clip: Electrons in Motion".
Students will work on a group project on the Electromagnetic Spectrum.
10/31-11/4
Students will be introduced to atomic mass, atomic number, # of protons, neutrons and electrons.
Students will work in pairs to determine the number of electrons, protons, neutrons, atomic number and atomic mass of an element.
Atomic PHET Lab
Students will complete an online lab on the characteristics of an atom
Students will define isotopes and discuss how atomic mass changes when the number of neutrons change.
Isotope WS
10/24-10/28
Students will begin thier study of atomic theory by relating the historic experiments of Proust, Lovoiser and Dalton to the development of the modern atom.
Class will read and discuss Politics and Chemistry - Elemental Differences on page 58 in the textbook.
Students will explain the Law of Conservation of matter as it relates to Green Technology.
Students will watch Green Bathroom video on Education Streaming.
Class will discuss why or why not it is important to make your home green.
Students will discuss, define and compare/contrast hypotheses, laws and theories.
Students will practice the Scientific Method with an online interactive: http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org
10/17-10/21
Launch Lab Demonstration: What's Inside?
Teacher will introduce the Newspaper Article Report on the Development of the Atomic Model.
Students will read nonfiction material on the scientists and summarize thier readings by creating a newspaper article on the discoveries of the scientists.
Students will complete the Newspaper Article Report.
10/10-10/14
Begin Chapter 1 Lab Centers
10/3-10/7
Students will review the parts of a solution- solvent and solute.
Students will work in pairs to complete a solute/solvent activity.
Students will define and describe physical properties of matter.
Students will define and solve for the density of materials.
Students will view a density clip from Discovery Streaming.
Students will define and describe chemical properties of matter.
Students will interpret the Law of Conservation of Matter.
Students will define Exothermic and Endothermic reactions.
Students will determine the method(s) to separation of homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures.
Physical separation of Mixtures Activity
Vocab Quiz
Introduction to Chapter 1 Lab Centers
9/26-9/30
Students will define and observe quantitative and qualitative measurements with examples.
Students will discuss types of pure matter by comparing and contrasting compounds and elements.
Students will compare and contrast heterogeneous and homogeneous mixtures.
Students will practice determining the types of different substances with an online activity.
Observation of a Candle Lab
Students will observe a candle and perform several tests.
Students will interpret observations and results of the tests.
Students will define the solute and solvent of a solution.
Students will work in cooperative learning groups to determine the solute and solvent in specific solutions.
Kitchen Chemical Lab
Students will observe the chemical and physical properties of 4 common kitchen materials with 3 test reagents.
Students will compare, interpret and infer the components in 2 unknown mixtures.
Students will complete Kitchen Lab
9/19-9/23
Begin Unit 2: The Science of Matter
Students will discuss and define properties, matter and mass.
Students will compare/ contrast microscopic, submicroscopic and macroscopic views of matter.
Students will complete a weight/mass activity
9/12-9/16
Students will determine the number of significant figures a number has.
Students will solve mathematical problems using rules for significant figures.
Students will practice on the Smart Board using the interactive website: http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/applist/sigfig/sig.htm
Students will continue to practice adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing with significant figures using a worksheet.
Students will practice measuring with a metric ruler and a graduated cylinder using the last digit estimation method.
Period 1: 4 Sight Testing
Period 5&7: Students will review and then discuss a united streaming video on measurement. Students will complete a worksheet on optical illusions and explain why accurate measurement is important.
Begin Science Skills Lab Centers:\
9/5-9/9
Students will complete If the World Were a Village graphing activity.
Period 5: BMI PHET Lab
Students will receive their chemistry journals to be completed at the beginning of each period.
What is Chemistry? (Smart Board Activity)
Begin unit 1 graphic organizer. Students will discuss key points of graphing.
Students will discuss different types of bias in graphing.
Students will discuss and solve for numbers using scientific notation.
Students will practice on the Smart Board using an interactive website
Students will learn how to use the correct metric system units and prefixes.
Students will review Metric Measures with Cells on the internet.
8/29-9/2
Hurricane day?
Introduction to chemistry activity
Students will beging to review classroom rules
Students will review laboratory procedures and safety precautions.
Laboratory procedure activity
Students will receive instructions on how to complete a multiple intelligence survey.
Students will begin If the World Were a Village graphing activity.
Signed classroom rules due TODAY!
Complete multiple intelligence survey.