Honors+Chem+Daily+Activity+2010-2011

=Semester 1: 2010/2011= =August 16 - August 20= 8/16: Student orientation 8/17: Textbook assignment and syllabus. Students are to select favorite elements and provide background information about these element from their textbooks. 8/18: WB presentations of students' favorite elements, started discussion of writing lab reports. 8/19: Finished procedure for writing lab reports, started writing prelab for "Finding the Relationship" lab that will start tomorrow. 8/20: Demonstrated use of software, started lab and finish Monday.

=August 23- August 27= 8/23: Finished "Finding the Realtionship" lab, discussed observations made in the lab, completed college survey. Lab is due Friday, 8/27 and there will be a lab quiz covering the content of the lab. 8/24: Introduced Unit 1-Simple Particle Description of Matter, discussed particle model based on KMT on pp. 151 and 152 of Chang and used model to describe matter, change and energy. Viewed Eureka video on Mass. Tomorrow, pre-labs for "Mass" experiments. 8/25: Discussed 6 part experiment concerning mass. Lab will start when new balances arrive. Tomorrow, lab station assignments. 8/26: Assigned lab stations, discussed logistics of the lab and viewed the water purification system in the chemical storage room. Balances are due tomorrow but because of the scheduled quiz, the next lab will start Monday. Tomorrow is the lab quiz over "Finding the realtionship" and discussion of precision, accuracy, significant figures, and dimensional analysis. Also, next week you will start learning the names of the elements. 8/27: Lab quiz on "Finding the Realtionship" and discussed precision and sig. figs. Lab on Mass begins Monday. Also, next week we will be learning the first three rows of elements in the periodic table!

=August 30- September 3= 8/30: Started lab on "Mass," should finish tomorrow. 8/31: Finished "Mass" lab. Tomorrow we will WB the results form this lab. Three components to the presentations will be an explanation of the results in words, the mass data, and an explanation of what was observed using the simple particle model introduced in Unit 1. 9/1: WB presentations of the results of parts 1-4 of the lab on "Mass." Also, handed out Unit 1 worksheet 1 on Mass and Change to be included as part of the discussion section of the lab on "Mass." 9/2: WB presentations on parts 5 & 6 of "Mass" lab. Reviewed first three rows of elements to be learned this week. 9/3: Reviewed sig. figs. and discussed rules for sig. figs. when performing mathematical computations. Handed out two worksheets on precision and sig. figs. Lab on "Mass" due next Wednesday at which time there will be a lab quiz. Tuesday, lab quizzes over "Find the Relationship' and lab reports will be handed back.

=September 6- September 10= 9/6: Labor day, no classes 9/7: Handed back "Find Relationship" lab and lab quiz, as well as WUD over first three rows of the periodic table. Assigned probelms 1.32-1.40 on page 24 of the textbook. Lab quiz over "Mass" lab and review homework. 9/8: Lab quiz and cleanup for Parent Back to School Night. Tomorrow, class project concerning density. 9/9: Schedule change, covered homework problems assigned 9/7 and handed out information sheet on metric conversion and a new dimensional analysis problem sheet for next Monday. Density experiment will be tomorrow. 9/10: WUD on naming elements, density project. On Monday, review homework handout covering dimensional analysis with WB presentations and WB presentation of density data.

=September 13- September 17= 9/13: WB Problems from dimensional analysis worksheet and the density of copper and aluminum project. Handed out Unit 1 worksheet 4 on Applied Density problems. Tomorrow, prelab for "Density of a Gas." 9/14: Reviewed Density worksheet (Unit 1 worksheet 4) and discussed prelab for "Density of a Gas" lab scheduled to start tomorrow. Also, handed out a problem set (Unit 1 Worksheet 3) which is due on Friday. On Friday, practice quiz for Unit 1 will be provided for a review. 9/15: Lab #3: "Density of a Gas" was done and data posted on the board for all three periods. These data will be used next week to illustrate the statistical treatment of precision. Tomorrow, finish worksheet and lab for those who didn't finish during today's class. 9/16: Finished lab and copied data from board for all three periods. Also, worked on worksheet (Unit 1 Worksheet 3) which is due tomorrow. Tomorrow, aluminum thickness activity, worksheet 3 is due, handout for review in preparation for Unit 1 quiz, and WUD on first 4 rows of periodic table. Review for quiz is Monday, quiz is Tuesday. 9/17: Unit 1, worksheet 3 handed in today. WUD covering first five rows of the periodic table. Handed out Unit 1 sheets and conducted a minilab on determining the thickness of aluminum foil. Monday is review day for unit 1 quiz.

=September 20-September 24= 9/20: Reviewed for Unit 1 quiz. 9/21: Unit 1 quiz. 9/22: Handed out worksheet covering the evolution of the model used thus far to explain various chemical phenomena. Discussed alternative measure of precision using mean and standard deviation. Assigned calculating mean and standard deviations for class data from "Density of a Gas" lab. This lab is due Friday. Tomorrow start Unit 2. 9/23: Changed the schedule, tomorrow will do Lab #4 on "Sugar Content in Beverages." Also, hand back Unit 1 quizzes for corrections over the weekend. "Density of a Gas" lab will be due Monday, as well as quiz corrections. 9/24: Lab "Sugar Content of Beverages" performed today. Also, handed back Unit 1 quizzes for corrections, which are due Monday. Lab reports for "Density of a Gas" are also due Monday. Start Unit 2 Monday as well.

=September 27- October 1= 9/27: Introduced Unit 2 by talking about energy and changes of state. Handed out learning objectives for Unit 2. Tomorrow, demonstrations of diffusion of gases and in liquids, realtionship to temperature. 9/28: Viewed short film on YouTube called "The Earliest Models" and three demonstrations of diffusion, i.e., gas in the air, dye in cold water, and dye in warm water. WB the observations from these demonstrations using our particle model and motion. Tomorrow, prediction of speed of particle movement in the gas phase and a review of KMT. 9/29: Discussed lab on Percent Sugar in Beverages computations and viewed sim on particle movement. Tomorrow, present percent sugar data for class and start lab on phase changes. 9/30: Lab data placed on board for students to record and started lab on phase changes. Tomorrow, continue lab, lab on Percent Sugar in Beverages due, and lab quiz. 10/1: Lab quiz over "Percent Sugar in Beverages," continued with "Change of State" lab by illustrating phase changes for water. Monday, continue with the lab.

=October 4- October 8= 10/4: Reviewed Unit 1 quiz and the "Percent Sugar in Beverages" lab quiz. Tomorrow, continue with sim on particle movement and phase change. 10/5: Viewed and discussed particle move and phase change sim. Discussed concept of pressure and realtionship between pressure, temperature, volume and amount of gas particles. Also, introduced the atmosphere as a unit of pressure. Tomorrow, finish discussion on sim and start prelab on gas laws. 10/6: Sophomore girls on retreat today. Discussed pressure and defined the concept with our particle model. Also, discussed atmospheric pressure and the discovery of the barometer by Torricelli. Presented the units of pressure and their conversion factors and using PowerPoint presentation, discussed how gas pressure is measured with both a closed-end and open-end manometer. Handed out Unit 2 worksheet 2 on measuring pressure. Tomorrow, sophomore boys are on retreat, so the same material will be presented to the girls. 10/7: Same as yesterday, sophomore boys on retreat. 10/8: Reviewed pressure, units of pressure and how pressure is measured. Also went over two gas law labs for next week; one will study the relationship between pressure and volume and the other lab will investigate the relationship between pressure and temperature and amount of gas. For Monday, pre-lab for pressure vs. volume lab is due.

=October 11- October 15= 10/11: Started lab on Boyle's Law. Finish lab and WB results tomorrow. 10/12: Finished lab and white boarded results. Tomorrow, PSATs. 10/13: PSATs 10/14: Started lab on pressure vs. volume. 10/15: Continued lab on pressure vs. volume. Monday WB results.

=October 18- October 22= 10/18: Finish lab on pressure vs. volume. WB results and discuss mathematical relationship between variables. 10/19: Discussed mathematical realtionship between 4 variables affecting the behavior of gases, i.e., P, T(K), V, and moles of gas(n). Handed out worksheet 3, Unit 2 and started working on problem 1. Tomorrow, continue with worksheet. 10/20: Reviewed formulas for basic gas laws and introduced the combined gas equation. Continued on worksheet 3, working together in groups. Tomorrow, WB answers to worksheet questions. 10/21: WB Problems from worksheet 3. Tomorrow, review worksheet for Unit 2. Unit 2 quiz scheduled for Tuesday, October 26. 10/22: Started Unit 2 review using hand out.

=October 25- October 29= 10/25: Reviewed KMT and gas laws. Introduced ideal gas law, PV = nRT and worked some practice problems. Tomorrow, continue Unit 2 review and discuss Dalton's law of partial pressure. 10/26: Reviewed gas laws, KMT, and introduced Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures. Unit 2 quiz tomorrow. 10/27: Unit 2 quiz. Tomorrow, start Unit 3. 10/28: Reviewed current model and discussed phase transitions in terms of energy involved. Introduced term of phase energy based on arrangements of particles in solid/liquid and thermal energy, the energy related to the temperature and collisions of particles. Talked about energy tranferring using term heating, working, and radiating. Next Monday we will discuss procedure for next lab. 10/29: No school.

=November 1- November 5= 11/1: Three handouts; Unit 3 Learning Objectives(Energy & States of Matter), reading Energy and Kinetic Molecular Theory, and energy reading study guide. Also, discussed next lab for determining the temperature curve for the phase transitions of water. Tomorrow, the lab. 11/2: Reinforced concepts of energy transfer, i.e., heating, working, and radiating, and the idea of energy accounts, specifically, thermal energy account, phase energy account, and chemical energy account. These are denoted as Eth, Eph, and Ech, respectively. Performed a trial run of the lab "Icy-Hot." 11/3: Lab "Icy-Hot." 11/4: Review lab and cover worksheet on energy. Tomorrow, Unit 2 test corrections. 11/5: Unit 2 quiz corrections.

=November 8- November 12= 11/8: Reviewed energy accounts, Eth and Eph, and lab results. Also, from chapter 6, covered types of systems, state functions, and exothermic vs. endthermic processes. 11/9: Handed out Unit 3, worksheet 2 on energy bar charts, reading on "Energy Heating/Cooling," and computational worksheet for calculating total heat from heating/cooling curve, using specific heat and heat of vaporization and fusion. Tomorrow, "Icy-Hot" lab is due and there will be a lab quiz. 11/10: "Icy-Hot" lab due and there was a lab quiz. Also, went through computation of q using sepcific heat. Tomorrow, discuss pre-lab for determining the heat of fusion for water and continue discussion of hiow to calculate q. 11/11: Continued discussion about calculating energy involved in the transition of ice to steam. Introduced heats of fusion and vaporization. Handed out problem set and also discussed pre-lab for monday's lab on determining the heat of fusion for water. Tomorrow, work on problems sheet and pre-lab. 11/12: Work on pre-lab and problem sheet.

=November 15- November 19= 11/15: Started lab on Determination of the Heat of Fusion for Ice. 11/16: Start computational worksheets on heat; Unit 3 worksheets 3 and 4. 11/17: WB Unit 3 worksheets. 11/18: WB Unit 3 worksheets. 11/19: Reviewed for Unit 3 quiz. Unit 3 quiz scheduled for monday, November 22.

=November 22- November 26= 11/22: Unit 3 quiz and lab on Determination of the Heat of Fusion for Ice is due. 11/23: Introduce Unit 4. 11/24: Unit 4. 11/25: Thanksgiving break. 11/26: Thanksgiving break.

=November 29- December 3= 11/29: Handed back Unit 3 quizzes, corrections due tomorrow. Also, started lab on "Physical and Chemical Changes." Continue lab tomorrow. 11/30: Continued lab. 12/1: Finished lab, handed out Unit 4, worksheet 2. 12/2: Avogadro's hypothesis 12/3: WB Unit 4, worksheet 2, assigned Dalton's Playhouse lab at website web.visionlearning.com/dalton_playhouse/as_loader.html due Monday. Also on Monday, lab due and lab quiz.

=December 6- December 10= 12/6: Discussed mass ratios and formulas, labs were due and there was a lab quiz over the lab on Physical and Chemical Change. 12/7: Introduced Unit 5 by discussing micro and macro scale mass units and the mole. Assigned problems 3.12-3.22 even from chapter 3 in their textbook. 12/8: Handed back Unit 3 quiz corrections and reviewed quiz. Also, discussed Unit 4, worksheet 2. 12/9: Reviewed micro and macro-scale mass realtionships for individual atoms and expanded to discussion by including molecules. Also, introduced concept of % composition and worked examples illustrating factor-label method for solving mass realtionship problems. Assigned problems 3.24-3.30 even in Chang. 12/10: Derivation of empirical formulas from data on percent composition and assigned problems 3.40-3.54 even.

=December 13- December 17= 12/13: No school, snow day. 12/14: Reviewed for final exam. 12/15: Final exams 12/16: Final exams 12/17: Final exams

=December 20- December 31= Holiday Break!!

=Semester 2: 2010/2011= =January 3- January 7= 1/3: Reviewed first semester final exam and topics to be covered this semester. 1/4: Reviewed Unit 5, handed out three Unit 5 worksheets for review. 1/5: Discussed chemical reactions within the model, rearrangement of atoms to form new molecules. Handed out the next lab on mass realtionships in a single replacement reaction, i.e., "The Nail." 1/6: Started chapter 2 of the textbook by talking about Dalton's Atomic theory and two of the three experiments which led to our current understanding of the structure of the atom, namely, Thomson's Cathode-Ray Tube experiment and Millikan's Oil-Drop experiment. Also, introduced Thomson's Plum Pudding model of the atom. 1/7: Discussed Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiment and discovery of nucleus and protons. Chadwick discovered neutrons using a similar experimental setup.

=January 10- January 14= 1/10: Started "Nail" lab. Also, covered how to write chemical formulas and how to name compounds with monoatomic anions. 1/11: Day 2 of Nail lab. 1/12: Finished Nail lab. Discussed naming compounds using polyatomic anions and metals with more than one ion form. Also, covered the various forms of the halo-oxy anions. 1/13: Discussed how to name molecular compounds and binary acids, including a definition of acids. 1/14: WB results from Nail lab. Lab is due Tuesday and there will be a lab quiz.

=January 17- January 21= 1/17: Martin Luther King Day, no classes. 1/18: Finished chapter 2 by learning the rules for naming oxyacids and bases. Also, there was a quiz over the Nail Lab and the lab reports were due today. 1/19: Discussed chemical equations and how they are balanced. Handed out worksheets 1 and 2 from unit 6 for students to practice balancing chemical equations. 1/20: Started chapter 4 on Reactions in Aqueous Solution, discussing solutions and electrolytes, both strong and weak. 1/21: From chapter 4, discussed precipitation reactions, including writing ionic equations and using the solubility table to predict reaction outcomes. Handed out prelab document for next lab over types of chemical reactions. Probably start next week. Also, today students had their first Naming Compounds quiz.

=January 24 - January 28= 1/24: Discussed properties and definitions of acids and bases. Also, presented acid/base neutralization reaction and demonstrated that the net ionic equation for this type of reaction is always the production of water. 1/25: Assigned problems 4.8 - 4.14, even; 4.18- 4.24, even; and 4.32 and 4.34, which were worked on during class. 1/26: Introduced redox reactions, including definitions of oxidation and reduction, oxidizing and reducing agent and types of redox reactions. Added problem 4.40 to their homework assignment. Tomorrow the lab over types of chemical reactions will begin. 1/27: Started lab "Describing Chemical Reactions." 1/28: Day 2 of the "Describing Chemical Reactions" lab. Monday, there will be a naming compounds quiz.

=January 31 - February 4= 1/31: Finished "Describing Chemical Reactions" lab and took naming compounds quiz. Also, lab reports for this experiment will be due Friday and the lab quiz will be Thursday. 2/1: Discussed identifying redox reactions by determining oxidation states of elements (ions) in reactant and product compounds. Covered rules for determining oxidation numbers. Also, covered two different classification schemes for chemical reactions. Assigned two more homework problems: 4.46 and 4.50. 2/2: Snow day, no school. 2/3: Snow day, no school. 2/4: Lab report due, also lab quiz. Finished Unit 6, discussing how to predict single replacement redox reactions. Monday is the review day for the Unit 6 test. Unit 6 test is Tuesday.

=February 7 - February 11= 2/7: Reviewed for Unit 6 test. 2/8: Unit 6 test. 2/9: Start Unit 7 on Stoichiometry. 2/10: Watched DVD on stoichiometry, assigned homework problems 3.64-3.78, even. 2/11: Work on homework problems.

=February 14 - February 18= 2/14: Limiting reactants and percent yield. 2/15: Discussed "Alka Selter" lab. Extended homework to include problems 3.82-3.86, even; 3.90 and 3.92. 2/16: Career day. 2/17: Alka Selter lab. 2/18: Alka Seltzer lab.

=February 21 - February 25= 2/21: Finish Alka Seltzer lab. 2/22: Work on lab, homework or test corrections. 2/23: Work on lab, homework, or test corrections. 2/24: Test corrections and homework due. Discuss lab. 2/25: Introduced molarity and described how to make solutions of a specific molarity. Assigned problems from chapter 4, 4.54-4.60, even. Alka Seltzer lab due today.

=February 28 - March 4= 2/28: Discussed molarity and dilutions. Assigned additional homework problems, 4.64, 4.66, and 4.68. 3/1: Discussed solution stoichiometry and worked examples. 3/2: Worked additional examples for solution stoichiometry and discussed gravimetric analysis. Assigned additional homework problems 4.72 and 4.74. Unit 7 test is scheduled for next Tuesday, March 8. 3/3: Discussed acid/base neutralization reaction and how it could be used stoichiometrically to determine the concentration of an unkown acid by titrating it with a base of known concnetration. Assigned homework problems 4.78 and 4.80. 3/4: Demonstrated the titration of HCL solution with NaOH to determine the concentration of HCl. Also, discussed calculation of pH and pOH from hydrogen ion concentration.

=March 7 - March 11= 3/7: Reviewed for test over Unit 7, stoichiometry. 3/8: Started Unit 8 (chapter 15), Equilibrium, by covering the equilibrium constant, and the Law of Mass Action. 3/9: Continued chapter 15, discussing homogeneous and heterogeneous equilibrium, the relationship between Kc and Kp, and how to algebraically manipulate the equilibrium expression. 3/10: Naming coumponds quiz and study time for test over Unit 7. 3/11: Unit 7 test.

=March 14 - March 18= 3/14: Continued in chapter 15 (Unit 8) reviewing Kp and Kc and the propeeties of the equilibrium constant. Also, introduced concept of Qc to determione if a reaction is at equilibrium by comparing the calculated value Qc with the euilibrium constant, Kc. Assigned homework problems: 15.8; 15.12; and 15.14-15.26, even. 3/15: Discussed solving for equilibrium concentrations by using an ICE table. 3/16: Started a discussion on Le Chatelier's Principle and the effects of changing concentration, pressure and volume on a system at equilibrium. Extended the homework assignment to include 15.30-15.38, even. 3/17: Finished chapter 15 by discussing the impact of temperature on the equilibrium constant, K. Also, extended the homework assignment to include problems 15.44-15.52, even. Monday, we start chapter 16. 3/18: No class; ICF day.

=March 21 - March 25= 3/21: Began discussing acid/base property of water, deriving the Kw for water, and pH computations for weak acids and bases, Chapter 16, employing ICE tables. Unit 8 test is scheduled for Friday. Tomorrow, work sample problems realting ICE tables for weak acids and bases to pH and pOH calculations. 3/22: Worked several problmes form chapter 16, demonstrating how to use ICE tables to sove for the pH of a weak acid or base. 3/23: Provided an overview of chapter 21, Nuclear Chemistry, Unit 9. Unit 8 quiz is on Friday; assigned homework will be due that day as well. 3/24: Review day for quiz covering Unit 8 on Equilibrium. 3/25: Unit 8 quiz.

=March 28 - April 1= 3/28: Stared Unit 9 on Nuclear Chemistry by discussing how isotopes are written and how to balance nuclear equations. 3/29: Continued with chapter 21, Nuclear Chemistry, by discussing types of decay processes and predicting nuclear stability using the belt of stability graph (n/p ratio) and based on a radioactive isotope's location relative to the belt of stability, what type of decay process will occur for that isotope. Also, handed back Unit 8 quiz; test corrections are due Thursday, 3/31. 3/30: In chapter 21, other methods for predicting whether or not various isotopes are stable were discussed, e.g., magic numbers and odd-even principle. The last method was nuclear binding energy using Einstein's formula relating mass to energy, E = mc2, where the nucleus loses mass during formation and this mass is lost in the form of energy. Higher binding energies mean more nuclear stability. Also, reminded students to be reading accounts of the reactor accident in Japan. 3/31: Reviewed mthods for determining is an isotope is stable or not, including calculation of B.E. Practiced calculation of binding energy with examples in class. 4/1: Quiet reading day.

=April 4 - April 8= Spring break, no classes.

=April 11 - April 15= 4/11: Discussed lab "Nuclear Pennies." 4/12: Started lab "Nuclear Pennies." 4/13: Lab day 2. 4/14: Lab day 3. 4/15: Lab day 4

=April 18 - April 22= 4/18: Started film, "Fat Man, Little Boy." 4/19: Day 2, "Fat Man, Little Boy." 4/20: Day 3, "Fat Man, Little Boy." 4/21: Nuclear Pennies lab due today, also, lab quiz. Watched "Duck and Cover" video from 1950's concerning what to do if there is an atomic bomb attack. 4/22: Good Friday, no classes.

=April 25 - April 29= 4/25: Finished film, "Fat Man, Little Boy." 4/26: Returned to chapter 21 of the textbook, covering nuclear transmutation. 4/27: Discussed fission reaction and nuclear reactors. 4/28: Discussed fusion, use of radioactive nuclides in medicine, and mesuring dosages of radiation after exposure to radioactive isotopes, i.e., rem, rad, and sieverts. 4/29: Reviewed for Unit 9 quiz on Monday and assigned additional homework problems 21.34, 21.36, and 21.50.

=May 2 - May 6= 5/2: Unit 9 test. 5/3: Started Unit 10, Chapter 7, on Quantum Mechanics, Bonding, and Molecular Geometry and covered properties of waves. 5/4: Show Dr. Quantum video about young's Two-Slit experiment. Also, discussed three experiements that ultimately lead to quantum mechanics, i.e., Black Body problem explained by Planck, The Photoelectric Effect explained by Einstein using Planck's quantized energy equation, and Emission Spectra explained by Bohr. 5/5: Discussed calculation of the energy of a photon of light emitted when an electron transitions from a higher to a lower energy state in hydrogen and covered DeBroglie's equation and explanation of why the energy of an electron is quantized. 5/6: Continued in the chapter by discussing quantum mechanics and the wave equation for determining an electrons energy and location in space. Covered the first three quantum numbers and assigned homework problems from chapter 7: 7.8-7.12, 7.16-7.20, and 7.26-7.34, even.

=May 9 - May 13= 5/9: Continued with chapter 7 by discussing spin quantum number and introduced writing electron configurations. Also demonstrated how to write a set of quantum numbers for any electron in an atom and illustrated how a unique set of quantum numbers could represent an individual element. 5/10: Practiced writing out electron configurations and quantum numbers for individual electrons in an atom. Also, handed back Unit 9 tests; corrections are due next Monday, May 16. Tomorrow we start chapter 9, "Bonding." 5/11: Presented ionic bonds and their properties and assigned additional homework problems from chapter 7: 7.40, 7.42, 7.54-7.68, even, 7.80-7.86, even, and 7.92. 5/12: Discussed covalent bonds and their properties and how to draw Lewis structures of covalently bonded molecules. 5/13: No classes, field day.

=May 16 - May 20= 5/16: Continued chapter 9, discussing how to draw Lewis structures and worked several examples. 5/17: Discussed formal charges and how they are used to determine the preferred lewis structure when more than one is possible. Also, covered the exceptions to the octet rule, including incomplete octet, odd-electron molecules, and expanded octet. Assigned additional homework problems from chapter 9: 9.14, 9.16, 9.18, 9.22, 9.30, 9.32, 9.40, and 9.42. 5/18: Finished chapter 9 by discussing bond energies and how enthalpies of chemical reactions can be computed using bond energies. Added problem 9.48 to home work assignment from chapter 9. 5/19: Reviewed for the Unit 10 test. 5/20: Unit 10 test.

=May 23 - May 27= 5/23: Review for finals. 5/24: Review for finals 5/25: Second semester final exam for periods 1 and 3. 5/26: Second semester final exam for period 5/6. 5/27: Final exam completed, end of semester, end of school year.