ACP+Chem+Daily+Activity+2014-2015

Fall Semester 2014

August 11-August 15
8/11: Teacher orientation. 8/12: Student orientation. 8/13: Handed out textbooks and covered syllabus and safety features of the classroom. 8/14: Covered how to write a lab report for ACP Chem using I.U. guidelines. Reviewed material from chapters 1-3 of the text for the review exam on Monday. 8/15: Practiced writing an abstract of an article from Journal of Chemical Education. Monday is the review test over chapters 1-3 in Tro.

August 18 - August 22
8/18: Preliminary test, also handed out application instructions for pre-registration for I.U. credit. This pre-registration is due by 8/20 and can be done online. Tomorrow discuss abstracts and sign I.U.'s lab safety contract. Start chapter on nuclear chemistry if there's time. 8/19: Signed up for lab groups and assigned drawers in lab stations. Also, introduced chapter 19 on Nuclear Chemistry, which we will start tomorrow. 8/20: Started chapter 19 on Nuclear Chemistry by discussing the discoverer of radiation as well as Curie's contributions. Continue with chapter tomorrow. 8/21: Continued in chapter 19 by discussing forms of radioactive decay and nuclear equations. 8/22: In chapter 19 covered N/Z ratio and magic numbers for predicting stability of isotopes.

August 25 - August 29
8/25: Continued in chapter 19 covering the kinetics of radioactive decay. 8/26: In chapter 19, covered fission and fusion and computing nuclear binding energy. 8/27: In chapter 19, cover artificial transmutation and biological effects from radiation. Tomorrow, finish the chapter and work on abstract writing. Movie, "Fat Man, Little Boy," begins next Tuesday. 8/28: Day of prayer for Mrs Pairitz. 8/29: Teacher retreat, no classes.

September 1 - September 5
9/1: Labor Day, no classes. 9/2: Started movie, "Fat Man, Little Boy." 9/3: Continued with film. 9/4: Continued with film. 9/5: Finished "Fat Man, Little Boy" and started the film "The Day After Trinity."

September 8 - September 12
9/8: Continued with second film. 9/9: Finished "The Day after Trinity," and discussed the two films. 9/10: Handed out prelab for "Separation of a Dye Mixture Using Chromatography," and the article, "Living Under the Cloud" for students to use in writing an opinion paper on the use of nuclear weapons during war. They will write a 5 page paper, double-spaced with 12 point font, which will be due next Wednesday, 9/17. Tomorrow, start chapter 4. Chapter 19 quiz on Friday. 9/11: Started chapter 4 by reviewing stoichiometry and solutions. Tomorrow, prelab and chapter 19 homework quiz.

September 15 - September 19
9/15: Started chromatography lab. Continue with lab tomorrow. 9/16: Continued lab today by performing a guided inquiry exercise and working on a procedure for another experiment for separating three of the dyes. Start the next experiment tomorrow. 9/17: Worked on protocol for separation of three dyes based on preliminary activity. 9/18: Separation of three dyes with paper chromatography. Tomorrow, return to chapter 4. 9/19: In chapter 4, discussed solution chemistry.

September 22 - September 26
9/22: Discussed precipitation reactions using the solubility tables and how to write total and net ionic equations. Lab reports are due Wednesday. 9/23: No classes, ICF day. 9/24: Lab quiz and started discussion on acid-base neutralization reactions. Continue neutralization reactions tomorrow. 9/25: Discussed titrations, gas-evolution reactions and started redox reactions. Introduced the idea of standardization of students' NaOH solutions for the three titration labs coming up. Finish chapter 4 tomorrow and move on to chapter 15. Chapter 4 quiz on Monday. 9/26: Discussed redox equations and how to balance net ionic redox equations using the electron-balance method. Also, introduced concept of pH based on the ionization constant of water.

September 29 - October 3
9/29: In chapter 15, discussed Bronsted-Lowrey theory of acids and bases and strong vs. weak acids and bases. Continue in chapter 15 tomorrow. 9/30: In chapter 15, cover auto-ionization of water and pH. Started talking about determining the pH of a weak acid or base using an ICE table. 10/1: Chapter 4 quiz. Continue with chapter 15 tomorrow. 10/2: In chapter 15, finished discussion of pH of weak acids/bases via an ICE table and computation of percent ionization for acids. 10/3: Discussed strengths of both binary and oxyacids. Finish chapter 15 on Monday.

October 6 - October 10
10/6: Started chapter 16 by covering buffers, common ion effect, and pH computations. 10/7: Finished discussion about buffers, tomorrow start titrations, also, chapter 15 quiz tomorrow. 10/8: Chapter 15 quiz. Tomorrow, titration. 10/9: Discussed titrations in chapter 16 and handed out the three titration prelabs. Tomorrow, discuss prelabs for standardization of NaOH and titration of acetic acid in vinegar. 10/10: Discussed prelab for the "Standardization of NaOH" lab. Start lab on Monday.

October 13 - October 17
10/13: Started "Standardization" lab. 10/14: Lab. 10/15: PSAT 10/16: Service Day, no classes. 10/17: Lab.

October 20 - October 24
10/20: Lab. 10/21: Lab. 10/22: Explained titration of acetic acid in vinegar lab. Students continued with titration labs. 10/23: Covered titration of diprotic acid. 10/24: No classes.

October 27 - October 31
10/27: Lab. 10/28: Lab. Exam rescheduled for Monday, 11/3. Labs due Thursday. 10/29: Finished up the titration labs and cleaned up. Tomorrow, lab quiz. 10/30: Lab clean up and quiz. Tomorrow, review for exam on Monday. 10/31: Reviewed for exam on Tuesday.

November 3 - November 7
11/3: Discussed solubility and calculating Ksp. Also, introduced qualitative analysis. Tomorrow, exam over chapters 4, 15, 16, & 19. 11/4: Exam. 11/5: Finished discussion of qualitative analysis and started chapter 5 on gas laws. 11/6: Gas laws. 11/7: Redo titration lab computations.

November 10 - November 14
11/10: Discussed density and molar mass computations using the ideal gas equation in preparation for next lab. 11/11: Junior retreat, boys watched Cosmos episode #9. 11/12: Junior retreat, girls watched Cosmos, episode #1. 11/13: Discussed KMT and handed back midterm exam for corrections, due Monday. 11/14: Discussed prelab for "Molar Mass of Volatile Liquid" lab. Also, prepared for Sunday's Open House.

November 17 - November 21
11/17: Finished chapter 5 by discussed root mean square speed, Boltzman distribution, effusion and diffusion. 11/18: Started chapter 6 on energy. Lab delayed until Thursday. 11/19: Continued with chapter 6 on energy. 11/20: Started volatile liquid lab. 11/21: Continued lab.

November 24 - November 28
11/24: Lab. 11/25: Lab. 11/26: Finished lab, lab due Wednesday, 12/3. 11/27: Thanksgiving, no classes. 11/28: Thanksgiving, no classes.

December 1 - December 5
12/1: Discussed calorimetry. 12/2: Finished chapter 6 by discussing Hess' Law and standard enthalpies of formation for determining heats of reaction. Tomorrow, post lab report due and lab quiz. Also, start chapter 17. 12/3: Lab quiz and introduced chapter 17. 12/4: Study time. 12/5: Continued in chapter 17 by introducing the concept of spontaneity and the role of energy, which led to a discussion of entropy. Presented Boltzman's law of entropy.

December 8 - December 12
12/8: Continued in chapter 17 by presenting the second law of thermodynamics and Gibb's Free Energy. 12/9: Discussed 3rd Law Of Thermodynamics, standard states, and calculating standard state Gibb's Free Energy. 12/10: Finished chapter 17 by covering the relationship between Gibb's and equilibrium constant. 12/11: Watched video on Thermodynamics and the end of the Universe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOrWy_yNBvY 12/12: Reviewed first midterm and lab quiz; study time for final midterm.

December 15 - December 19
12/15: Study time for final. 12/16: Study time for final. 12/17: Final exams. 12/18: Final exams. 12/19: Final exams.

January 5 - January 9
1/5: Handed back first semester final exams and will allow corrections due by Friday. Also, assigned new lab partners. Tomorrow, start with chapter 8. 1/6: Decided to start with chapter 7 on Quantum Mechanics. Discussed properties of waves and electromagnetic radiation. 1/7: Assigned new lab partners and stations/drawers. 1/8: Snow day, no classes. 1/9: Snow day, no classes.

January 12 - January 16
1/12: Discussed "Black-body Radiation," "Photoelectric Effect," and "Emission Spectra." Tomorrow, finish review of chapter 7. Also, corrections from final exam are due. Watched video of 2-slit experiment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuv6hY6zsd0 1/13: Discussed Bohr's atomic model to explain emission spectra based on electron transitions, DeBroglie's wave equation demonstrating the wave properties of electrons and explaining why Bohr's model worked and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Also, introduced Schrodinger's wave equation and the solutions which represent the three primary quantum numbers. Tomorrow, finish chapter 7 and start the Brian Green DVDs. 1/14: Discussed quantum numbers and electron configuration. Also, covered how to write a set of quantum numbers for any electron in an atom. Tomorrow, start film series. 1/15: Started Fabric of The Cosmos dvd series by Brian Greene. 1/16: Continued with dvd series.

January 19 - January 23
1/19: MLK Day, no classes. 1/20: Finished the IIlusion of Time dvd, continue with series tomorrow. 1/21: Started Quantum Leap dvd. 1/22: Finished Quantum Leap video and started Multiverse video. 1/23: Watched a YouTube video presenting Aspect's experiment on entanglement and finished dvd video on Multiverse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFvJOZ51tmc

January 26 - January 30
1/26: Watched video by Lawrence Krauss on Life, Universe, and Nothing. 1/27: Finished the video and discussed the dvds and the video. Tomorrow, handout the Cosmology Take Home Exam and the prelab for the Periodic Table lab, as well as start chapter 8. 1/28: Handed out Cosmology take home exam and prelab and discussed both. Exam is due 2/4 and the lab is due 2/5. 1/29: Started Periodic table lab. 1/30: Periodic Table lab.

February 2 - February 6
2/2: Snow day, no classes. 2/3: Worked on Periodic table lab or take home exam. Also, will not lecture over chapter 8; students should review on their own. Tomorrow, begin chapter 9 on Bonding. 2/4: Started chapter 9 on bonding, covering types of bonds and Lewis theory of bonding. 2/5: Ionic bonding. 2/6: Covalent bonding.

February 9 - February 13
2/9: Covered Lewis structures of molecules and formal charges. 2/10: Discussed derivation of Lewis structures, bond polarity based in electronegativity and prediction of molecular polarity and resonance structures. 2/11: Finished chapter 9 by discussing metallic bonds. 2/12: Students assisted in the set up for an honors chemistry lab. 2/13: Started chapter 10 on molecular geometry. Discussed five major geometric arrangements of electrons as well as possible derivatives of those geometries due to non-bonding electron pairs.

February 16 - February 20
2/16: President's Day, no classes. 2/17: Discussed Valence Bond theory and orbital hybridization. 2/18: Finished chapter 10 by discussing Molecular Orbital theory. Tomorrow, "Molecular Geometry" lab. 2/19: Snow day, no classes. 2/20: Snow day, no classes.

February 23 - February 27
2/23: Started "Molecular geometry" lab. 2/24: Finished "molecular Geometry" lab. Tomorrow, start chapter 13 on Kinetics. 2/25: Started chapter 13 by discussing experimentally determined reaction rates and showed how to determine average rates from graphs of change in reactant and product concentration over time. Continue with chapter 13 tomorrow. 2/26: Discussed instantaneous rates and methods of analyzing product formation, including polarimetry, spectrophotometry, gravimetric analysis, gas chromatography, and titrations. 2/27: Discussed the rate law and zero, first, and second order reactions and how to determine the order of a reaction.

March 2 - March 6
3/2: Discussed the integrated rate law. 3/3: Finished Kinetics by discussing integrated rate law and half-life equations for zero, first, and second order reactions. Tomorrow, prelabs and take home Kinetics exam. 3/4: Handed out three prelabs and the take home kinetics exam which will be due next Wednesday, 3/11. 3/5: Worked on prelabs and/or exam. 3/6: Worked on prelabs and/or exam.

March 9 - March 13
3/9: Worked on prelabs and/or exam. Tomorrow, start colorimetry lab. 3/10: Started "Beer's Law" lab. 3/11: Finished "Beer's Law" lab. Tomorrow, "Ksp Ca(OH)2" lab. 3/12: Work on labs. 3/13: Work on labs.

March 16 - March 20
3/16: Discussed "Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide" lab. 3/17: Started the "Decomposition" lab. 3/18: Worked on labs. 3/19: Continued to work on labs. 3/20: Finished labs.

March 23 - March 27
3/23: Started I.U. final exam, part 1. 3/24: Continued with I.U. final exam, part 2. 3/25: Finished I.U. Final, part 3. 3/26: Started chapter 3 organic chemistry on alkanes. Naming alkanes quiz is tomorrow. 3/27: Naming alkanes quiz and continued in chapter 3 discussing alkane nomenclature.

March 30 - April 3
3/30: Continued in organic chemistry by covering the nomenclature for naming alkanes. 3/31: Watched DVD on "Butanes" and discussed naming cycloalkanes. 4/1: Watched DVD on "Carbon Rings" and presented stereoisomerism, cis- and trans- isomers in cycloalkanes. 4/2: Naming Organic Compounds quiz and started DVD "Cycloalkanes." 4/3: Spring break begins, no classes.

April 13 - April 17
4/13: Viewed DVD on "Cycloalkanes." Handed out prelab on "Intermolecular Forces." 4/14: Viewed DVD on "Addition Reactions." 4/15: Viewed DVD on "Alkenes." 4/16: Discussed nomenclature for alkynes. 4/17: Naming organic compounds quiz and prepared "Intermolecular Forces" prelab.

April 20 - April 24
4/20: Viewed DVD on "Energy Diagrams" and started chapter 5 on Alcohols, etc. Tomorrow, "Intermolecular Forces" lab. 4/21: Finished chapter on alcohols, phenols, and thiols. Lab rescheduled, awaiting chemicals. 4/22: Started chapter on Aldehydes and Ketones and viewd DVD "Carbocation." 4/23: Viewed DVD "Electrophilic Reactions I" and finished chapter on Aldehydes and Ketones. Tomorrow, naming compounds quiz. 4/24: Naming compounds quiz and started DVD "Halohydrin Formation Reactions."

April 27 - May 1
4/27: Started "Intermolecular Forces" lab. 4/28: Finished lab. 4/29: Finished "Halohydrin Formation" DVD and started Chapter 7 on Carboxylic Acids and their derivatives. 4/30: Watched DVD on "Electrophilic Reactions II" and finished chapter 7 discussing carboxylic acid derivatives. 5/1: Field Day, naming organic compounds quiz.

May 4 - May 8
5/4: Watched last DVD on "Electrophilic Reactions III" and started chapter 8 on Amines and Amides. 5/5: Covered prelab for "Thin Layer Chromatography" lab to begin on Thursday. 5/6: AP testing, free study period. Tomorrow, begin lab. 5/7: Started lab. 5/8: Finished lab.

May 11 - May 15
5/11: Discussed naming amines and introduced amides in chapter 8. 5/12: Handed out Chapter 9 on "Stereoisomerism," and prelab on "Synthesis of Aspirin" lab. Finished chapter 8 by practicing naming amides. 5/13: Started chapter 9 on "Stereoisomerism." 5/14: Naming Organic compounds quiz. 5/15: Went over "Aspirin" prelab to begin Monday.

May 18 - May 22
5/18: Started "Aspirin" lab. 5/19: Aspirin lab. 5/20: Aspirin lab. 5/21: Aspirin lab. 5/22: Aspirin lab.

May 25 - May 29
5/25: memorial Day, no classes. 5/26: Finish Aspirin lab and discuss final prelab practical on identifying an unknown alcohol from the sent of as ester derived from the alcohol and a carboxylic acid. 5/27: Final exam, Aspirin postlab due.