Honors+Chem+Daily+Activity+2015-2016

=**Fall Semester 2015-2016**=

**August 10 - August 14**

 * 8/10: Teacher orientation.**
 * 8/11: Student orientation.**
 * 8/12: Handed out syllabus and safety issues and features in the classroom. Tomorrow, present procedure for writing lab reports.**
 * 8/13: Discussed how to write a lab report. Tomorrow, cover LoggerPro software and prelab for "Find the Relationship" lab.**
 * 8/14: Handed out prelab for "Find the Relationship" lab and presented LoggerPro software with analysis of the examples in the hand out.**

**August 17 - August 21**

 * 8/17: Started chapter 1 by discussing observation, hypothesis, law and theory in science. Tomorrow, assign lab partners and stations.**
 * 8/18: Assigned lab partners and stations, covered safety contract and toured the chemical storage room. Tomorrow, back into chapter 1.**
 * 8/19: Discussed classifying matter by state, i.e., solid, liquid or gas, and composition. Continue with this discussion tomorrow.**
 * 8/20: Discussed classification by composition and physical change vs. chemical change. Tomorrow, start "Find the Relationship" lab.**
 * 8/21: Started "Find the Relationship" lab. Finish lab Monday.**

**August 24 - August 28**

 * 8/24: Finished "Find the Relationship" lab. Tomorrow, back into chapter 1.**
 * 8/25: Explained how to use Thaw Space on the lab computers to store data. In chapter 1, covered energy and started a discussion of units of measurement. Assigned problems 1.1 - 1.27, odd, for homework.**
 * 8/26: In chapter 1, discussed units of measurement for temperature and how volume units are derived. Also, presented the concept of extrinsic and intrinsic properties and density.**
 * 8/27: Discussed significant figures and measurement uncertainty. Tomorrow, labs reports are due and there is a lab quiz.**
 * 8/28: Discussed significant figures and exact numbers. Also, presented and explained rules for handling sig. figs. in computations. Chapter 1 test will be next week.**

**August 31 - September 4**

 * 8/31: Discussed accuracy and precision and introduced dimensional analysis. Tomorrow, finish chapter 1. Final homework assignment is : 1.29 - 1.61, odd, due on the day of the chapter quiz.**
 * 9/1: Finished chapter 1 by working examples of problems using dimensional analysis. Tomorrow is review day for the chapter 1 quiz on Thursday.**
 * 9/2: Reviewed for chapter 1 quiz.**
 * 9/3: Chapter 1 quiz.**
 * 9/4: Faculty retreat, no classes.**

**September 7 - September 11**

 * 9/7: Labor Day, no classes.**
 * 9/8: Started chapter 2 by discussing Laws of Conservation of Mass in chemical reactions and Definite Proportions. Tomorrow, cover prelab for "Did Pete Cheat."**
 * 9/9: Discussed prelab for "Did Pete Cheat" lab to start on Friday. Tomorrow, prepare chromatograms and back into chapter 2.**
 * 9/10: Prepared chromatograms for tomorrow's lab. Also, in chapter 2 covered Dalton's Atomic Theory.**
 * 9/11: Started "Did Pete Cheat" lab. Also, handed back lab quiz, chapter 1 quiz, chapter 1 homework and "Find Relationship" lab. Chapter 1 quiz corrections are due Monday.**

**September 14 - September 18**

 * 9/14: Demonstrated how to mount chromatographs in lab notebook and continued in chapter 2, discussing J.J. Thomson's Cathode Ray-Tube and Millikan's Oil-Drop experiments.**
 * 9/15: Discussed starting a research project for Science Fair and in chapter 2, reviewed first two experiments concerning the structure of the atom and discussed radiation.**
 * 9/16: Reviewed chapter 1 quiz and covered Rutherford's Gold-Foil experiment.**
 * 9/17: Discussed use of relative scales for indicating charge and mass of subatomic particles and atoms and the discovery of the neutron by Rutherford and Chadwick and its characteristics. Tomorrow, "Did Pete Cheat" lab report is due and there will be a lab quiz.**
 * 9/18: Lab reports due and there was a lab quiz. In chapter 2, covered concepts on protons determining the type of element an atom is and its location in the periodic table based on atomic number. Talked about atomic mass and how that number for each element represents a weighted average of all naturally occurring isotopes of the element. Also, for Monday, students should indicate what their project topic will be or what chapters in Tro they will use for their PowerPoints.**


 * September 21 - September 25**
 * 9/21: Sophomore retreat; only girls today so covered isotopes and how atoms become charged to form ions.**
 * 9/22: Sophomore retreat; only boys today so yesterday's lecture was repeated. Assigned problems 2.1-2.57 odd for homework. Tomorrow, cover prelab for "Nuclear Pennies."**
 * 9/23: Covered prelab for "Nuclear Pennies" lab, which will begin on Friday. Tomorrow, back into chapter 2.**
 * 9/24: In chapter 2 covered ions and the structure of the periodic table as first developed by Mendeleev.**
 * 9/25: Started"Nuclear Pennies" lab.**

**September 28 - October 2**

 * 9/28: Continued lab.**
 * 9/29: Finished lab, tomorrow back into chapter 2.**
 * 9/30: Finished chapter 2 by discussing weighted average atomic mass calculations and concept of the mole along with factor-label computations converting atoms to moles to grams and vice versa. Tomorrow, review for chapter 2 quiz on Friday.**
 * 10/1: Review for chapter 2 quiz tomorrow.**
 * 10/2: Chapter 2 quiz and chapter 2 homework due. Monday, "Nuclear Pennies" lab report due and there will be a lab quiz. Also, introduce chapter 3.**

**October 5 - October 9**

 * 10/5: "Nuclear Pennies" postlab report was due and there was a lab quiz.**
 * 10/6: Started chapter 3 by covering ionic vs covalent molecules and how the bonding differs between these two types of compounds. Also, assigned the first three powerpoints using the chemistry textbooks: PP#1 is due 10/30; PP#2 is due 11/30 and PP#3 is 12/18.**
 * 10/7: In chapter 3, talked about molecular and empirical formulas as well as structural formulas and models.**
 * 10/8: Teacher meeting at St. Joe, no classes.**
 * 10/9: In chapter 3, covered naming ionic compounds. Also, chapter 2 quiz corrections are due on Monday, 10/12.**

**October 12 - October 16**

 * 10/12: Covered naming molecular compounds and reviewed naming ionic compounds.**
 * 10/13: Covered naming binary acids and oxyacids.**
 * 10/14: PSAT, no classes.**
 * 10/15: Service day, no classes.**
 * 10/16: WUD on naming compounds and presented the rules for naming last category of compounds, i.e., metal hydrates. Also, handed out lists of formulas of compounds to be named and a list of names of compounds for which formulas must be written. Students will work on these practice sheets on Monday.**

**October 19 - October 23**

 * 10/19: Students filled out worksheet on naming compounds.**
 * 10/20: Discussed formula and molar masses of compounds. Also, demonstrated examples of using factor-label technique to determine mass of a compound from number of molecules or formula units.**
 * 10/21: Reviewed naming compounds and introduced percent composition. Tomorrow is the first naming compounds quiz.**
 * 10/22: First naming compounds quiz and discussed using percent composition as a conversion factor.**
 * 10/23: No classes.**

**October 26 - October 30**

 * 10/26: Continued in chapter 3. Homework for chapter 3: 3.1-3.79, odd.**
 * 10/27: Percent composition in chapter 3.**
 * 10/28: Percent composition as a conversion factor and determining empirical formulas.**
 * 10/29: Determining molecular formulas from empirical formulas.**
 * 10/30: Determining empirical formulas from combustion analysis.**

**November 2 - November 6**

 * 11/2: Finished chapter 3 covering balancing chemical equations and differences between inorganic and organic compounds.**
 * 11/3: Worked on next prelab, "Household Acids and Bases," and demonstrated use of a pH electrode.**
 * 11/4: Worked on paperwork for SEFI or next PowerPoint.**
 * 11/5: Reviewed for tomorrow's chapter 3 quiz.**
 * 11/6: Chapter 3 quiz.**

**November 9 - November 13**

 * 11/9: Lab, "Household Acids and Bases."**
 * 11/10: Finished lab.**
 * 11/11: Students worked on powerpoints/SEFI paperwork.**
 * 11/12: Started chapter 4 on Chemical Reactions in Solution by introducing stoichiometry and applying to an example of combustion and climate change.**
 * 11/13: Students worked on their post-labs and/or homework from chapter 4.**

**November 16 - November 20**

 * 11/16: Students worked on post-labs/homework.**
 * 11/17: Lab were due and there was a lab quiz. Reviewed factor label technique for solving stoichiometry problems.**
 * 11/18: Stoichiometry problems and factor label.**
 * 11/19: Introduced molarity and how to make solutions of a specific concentration.**
 * 11/20: Introduced solution stoichiometry.**

**November 23 - November 30**

 * 11/23: Discussed dilutions and worked problems in solution stoichiometry. Assigned problems 4.1-4.37, odd, for homework.**
 * 11/25: Discussed solvent-solute interactions and how ionic compounds disassociate in water to form ions whereas molecular compounds do not. The differences between electrolytes and nonelectrolytes were presented as well as the idea of solubility and the solubility table.**
 * 11/26: Presented prelab for "Alka Seltzer" lab to begin on Monday. Also, worked on predicting the outcome for precipitation reactions using total and net ionic equations.**
 * 11/27: Thanksgiving break, no classes.**
 * 11/28: Thanksgiving break, no classes.**

**November 30 - December 4**

 * 11/30: Started "Alka Seltzer" lab.**
 * 12/1: Finished "Alka Seltzer" lab. Tomorrow, acid/base reactions and pH calculations.**
 * 12/2: reviewed chapter 3 quiz and discussed acid/base or neutralization reactions, including total ionic and net ionic equations. Also, discussed pH and demonstrated how to estimate as well as calculate pH for a given concentration of acid.**
 * 12/3: Continued discussion of pH and worked additional problems. Also, demonstrated how to calculate hydrogen ion concentration from pH.**
 * 12/4: Naming compounds quiz and review for Monday's chapter 4 quiz.**

**December 7 - December 11**
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 * 12/7: Because of fog, there was a delayed schedule so quiz for today cancelled. Instead, chapters 4 and 15 material will be on the final exam and will constitute 50% of the exam. There will also be a naming compounds portion. Started chapter 15 by discussing properties of acids and bases, including the Arrhenius definition of acids and bases. Also, below are links for students wanting to download LoggerPro to their personal computers.**
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 * 12/8: Discussed Bronsted-Lowery theory of acids and bases. Also, presented the autoionization constant for water and its relationship to the pH scale.**
 * 12/9: Presented ICE tables for calculating pH of weak acids.**
 * 12/10: Presented use of ICE table for calculating pH and pOH for weak bases.**
 * 12/11: Demonstrated use of ICE table with two examples. Students also allowed to work oon their next powerpoint of project paperwork.**

December 14 - December 18

 * 12/14: Started review game. Also, decided to make powerpoint and project paperwork grades part of the third quarter. Continue review game tomorrow.**
 * 12/15: Finished review game. SEFI paperwork due this week. PP#3 is due by Friday,**
 * 12/16: Final exams.**
 * 12/17: Final exams.**
 * 12/18: Final exams.**

=**Spring Semester 2015-2016**=

**January 4 - January 8**

 * 1/4: Started Gas Laws in chapter 5.**
 * 1/5: Continued with gas laws.**
 * 1/6: Gas laws.**
 * 1/7: Gas laws.**
 * 1/8: Gas Laws and Naming Compounds quiz.**

**January 11 - January 15**

 * 1/11: Continued with gas laws and assigned homework problems, 5.1-5.47, odd.**
 * 1/12: Gas laws.**
 * 1/13: Gas laws and handed out prelab "Pressure-Temperature Relationship in Gases."**
 * 1/14: Finished chapter 5 on gas laws and worked on prelab.**
 * 1/15: Started lab. Also, chapter 5 quiz is next Wednesday, 1/20. Postlab reports due Friday, 1/22.**

**January 18 - January 22**

 * 1/18: MLK Day, no classes.**
 * 1/19: Plumbing issues, no classes.**
 * 1/20: Finish lab, postlab reports now due Monday, 1/25. Chapter 5 test rescheduled for Friday, 1/22.**
 * 1/21: Reviewed for tomorrow's chapter 5 quiz. Also, changed the schedule, so on Monday Mr. A will talk to the class about next year's choices for science classes and on Tuesday, lab reports are due and there will be a lab quiz. On Wednesday, Mr. A will return to discuss class choices and recommendation with each student individually.**
 * 1/22: Chapter 5 quiz.**

**January 25 - January 29**

 * 1/25: Mr. A talked with students about possible science course selections for next year. Tomorrow, lab reports due, lab quiz, and start chapter 6.**
 * 1/26: Cancelled lab quiz and started chapter 6 by discussing energy, forms and units of energy, state functions and the first law of thermodynamics. Assigned problems 6.1-6.11, odd as homework. Tomorrow, Mr. A with discuss next year's science class choices with each student.**
 * 1/27: Mr. A talked with students individually about science course choice for next year. Also, handed back quizzes from chapter 5; corrections are due Friday, 1/29.**
 * 1/28: Discussed change in internal energy of a system as a function of heat transfer and work. Also, introduced the concept of heat capacity. Naming compounds quiz tomorrow.**
 * 1/29: Naming compounds quiz and discussed heat capacity, specific heat capacity and calculating heat from mass, specific heat capacity and temperature change. Quiz corrections are due Monday, 2/1.**

**February 1 - February 5**

 * 2/1: Discussed specific heat computations.**
 * 2/2: Discussed a bomb calorimeter and how its used to determine the change in internal energy at constant pressure. Also, handed out prelab for "Heat of**
 * 2/3: Students worked on either homework, prelab and prepared for Naming Compounds quiz on Friday.**
 * 2/4: Same as yesterday.**
 * 2/5: Naming Compounds quiz.**

**February 8 - February 12**

 * 2/8: Started "Heat of Fusion" lab.**
 * 2/9: Finished lab.**
 * 2/10: Started Chapter 6 on Thermochemistry, introduced concept of energy and units. Assigned as homework, problems 6.1-6.51, odd.**
 * 2/11: Discussed internal energy of a system, system vs. surroundings.**
 * 2/12: Discussed work and heat, introduced the equations for both. Also, naming compounds quiz.**

**February 15 - February 19**

 * 2/15: Presidents' Day, no classes.**
 * 2/16: Discussed enthalpy and how it is determined, i.e., via measurement, indirect computation (Hess'Law) or direct computation (standard heats of formation). Worked example of computing enthalpy using Hess' Law. Also, "Heat of Fusion" post-****lab report due and a lab quiz.**
 * 2/17: Worked several examples of using Hess' Law to compute enthalpy of a chemical reaction.**
 * 2/18: Discussed direct method of calculating heat of reaction using standard enthalpies of formation.**
 * 2/19: Worked examples of calculating enthalpies of reaction using heats of formation. Also, naming compounds quiz.**

**February 22 - February 26**

 * 2/22: Discussed the thermochemistry of global warming.**
 * 2/23: Reviewed for chapter 6 quiz tomorrow.**
 * 2/24: Chapter 6 quiz.**
 * 2/25: Snow day, no classes.**
 * 2/26: Introduced new software, Atomsmith, for use in chapters 7-10.**

**February 29 - March 4**

 * 2/29: Started chapter 7 on Quantum Mechanics, discussing properties of waves.**
 * 3/1: Discussed the duality of electrons. i.e., particle and wave and viewed the Dr. Quantum video on the "Two-Slit" experiment.**
 * 3/2: Reviewed lab quiz and handed back chapter 6 quiz for corrections due Monday, 3/7.**
 * 3/3: Reviewed last naming compounds quiz in preparation for tomorrow's rendition. In chapter 7, covered the photoelectric effect and Einstein's explanation.**
 * 3/4: Naming compounds quiz 17e and continued in chapter 7 covering emission spectra.**

**March 7 - March 11**

 * 3/7: Discussed emission spectra and explanation by Bohr. Tomorrow is homework day.**
 * 3/8: ISTEP testing for sophomores and homework day, three problems due at the end of the period.**
 * 3/9: Performed lab activity "Bohr Peers Inside the Atom," using the new Atomsmith software.**
 * 3/10: Finished lab activity and discussed complementary, indeterminacy vs indeterminacy, uncertainty, and the first three quantum numbers.**
 * 3/11: Discussed quantum numbers n, l, and ml and illustrated how these quantum numbers explain the organization of the periodic table.**

March 14 - March 18

 * 3/14: In chapter 7, reviewed quantum numbers and their use in explaining the organization of the periodic table.**
 * 3/15: Finished chapter 7 by discussing radial probability functions, nodes and electron densities. Also, examined the shapes of the s, p, d, and f orbitals and phases of the wave function that represents the orbitals as an introduction to bonding. Tomorrow, we will be doing a lab activity over the Schrodinger model (quantum mechanical) of the atom.**
 * 3/16: Carried out lab activity "Schrodinger Peers Inside the Atom."**
 * 3/17: Introduced electron configuration and matched it with orbital diagrams and quantum numbers.**
 * 3/18: Teacher professional development, no classes.**

**March 21 - March 25**

 * 3/21: Continued in chapter 8, covering electron interactions, shielding, and penetration while discussion energy splitting of the principal energy levels.**
 * 3/22: Atomsmith lab activity, "Electron Configuration and the Periodic Table." Chapters 7 & 8 quiz is scheduled for next Wednesday, 3/30.**
 * 3/23: Atomsmith experiments 0-4 from unit on Periodic Trends, will count as chapter 8 homework.**
 * 3/24: Continued with experiments from Periodic Trends unit. Changed the test scheduled for next Wednesday to cover only chapter 7, not 7 & 8 combined. Homework from chapter 7 will be due then as well.**
 * 3/25: Good Friday, no classes.**

**March 28 - April 1**

 * 3/28: Easter Monday, no classes.**
 * 3/29: reviewed for chapter 7 quiz tomorrow.**
 * 3/30: Chapter 7 quiz.**
 * 3/31: Continue working on Atomsmith experiments 0-4, then through 7.**
 * 4/1: Continued working on Atomsmith experiment 0-7. These will count as the homework assignment for chapter 8. The chapter 8 quiz is tentatively scheduled for Monday, April 18.**

**April 11 - April 15**

 * 4/11: Continued work on the trend experiments on Atomsmith.**
 * 4/12: Handed out prelab on "Flame Testing" and students worked on preparing their prelabs.**
 * 4/13: Discussed trends in the periodic table and demonstrated electron configuration for the transition metals in row 4. Tomorrow, "Flame Test" lab.**
 * 4/14: "Flame Test" lab. Also, chapter 7 quiz corrections are due tomorrow and review for chapter 8 quiz, which is Monday.**
 * 4/15: Reviewed for chapter 8 quiz on Monday.**

**April 18 - April 22**

 * 4/18: Chapter 8 quiz.**
 * 4/19: Started chapter 9 by introducing Lewis Theory.**
 * 4/20: Continued with Lewis theory by discussing Lewis electron dot formulas and 3 types of bonds. Tomorrow, lab report on "Flame Test" due.**
 * 4/21: Handed back chapter 8 quiz for corrections, lab reports were due and there was a lab quiz.**
 * 4/22: Students worked on quiz over chapter 8 corrections, which are due on Monday.**

**April 25 - April 29**

 * 4/25: Chapter 9 discussed covalent bonding.**
 * 4/26: Discussed polar covalent bonds and how to use electronegativity values to determine polarity of bonds.**
 * 4/27: Presented rules for drawing Lewis structures of molecules and practiced drawing molecules and common bonding patterns.**
 * 4/28: Started Atomsmith lab: "Lewis Structures."**
 * 4/29: Introduced formal charges and resonance structures, the concept of delocalization and stability of a molecule with charge dispersal. Finished chapter 9. Homework assignment from chapter 9: 9.1-9.33, odd.**

**May 2 - May 6**

 * 5/2: Started chapter 10 by introducing the concept of molecular geometry. Presented the five perfect geometric groups with examples and introduced the ABE designations.**
 * 5/3: Continued in chapter 10 by presenting VSEPR theory and how is explains the basic geometric groups, through octahedral geometry.**
 * 5/4: Discussed the effects of non-bonding electrons on the central on the overall geometry of the molecule. Covered the derivative geometries for classes AB2 - AB6.**
 * 5/5: Discussed determination of polarity of molecules using molecular geometry and vector addition.**
 * 5/6: Introduced orbital hybridization and explanation of how hybrid orbitals demonstrate correct bond angles and multiple bonds. On Monday, finish chapter 10, and hand out "Molecular Geometry" prelab. Also, problems 10.1-10.37, odd, added to the homework list.**

**May 9 - May 13**

 * 5/9: Handed out "Molecular Geometry" prelab and continued discussion of orbital hybridization. Starte lab tomorrow.**
 * 5/10: Started "Molecular Geometry" lab.**
 * 5/11: Molecular Geometry lab.**
 * 5/12: Review for chapters 9 & 10 quiz tomorrow.**
 * 5/13: Chapters 9 & 10 quiz.**

**May 16 - May 20**

 * 5/16: Started chapter 20 on organic chemistry.**
 * 5/17: Organic chemistry.**
 * 5/18: Organic chemistry.**
 * 5/19: Organic chemistry.**
 * 5/20: Finished organic chemistry.**

**May 23 - 27**

 * 5/23: Review game for final exam.**
 * 5/24: Finished review game.**
 * 5/25: Final exams.**
 * 5/26: final exams.**
 * 5/27: Final exams.**

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