Wednesday, Jan. 21st: Thermodynamics

Big Idea: Thermodynamics measures the heat in a system. Heat is the kinetic energy (movement) of a substance's molecules.

1. Warm-up: What is the difference between exothermic and endothermic?
2. Finish CST practice test.
3. Thermodynamics Notes #20 (last notes!)
4. Thermodynamics Lab: Phase Changes
5. Thermodynamics worksheet (while doing lab)
6. Review big idea.

Homework: see Jan. 16th and 20th.

Tuesday, Jan. 20th: Review

Review of CST test

1. Warm-up: What was the purpose of the Hot and Cold Lab?
2. Review CST practice test questions
3. Review the work that is due in Packet #8 (see Friday Jan. 16th for list!).
4. Go over Hot and Cold Lab questions.
5. Watch part of Obama inaugaration
6. Finish with Hot and Cold lab.

Homework: Study for final exam. Make a study sheet to be signed every day. Study for at least 20 minutes. Use: a. CST standards worksheet b. Vacation review sheets c. Notes d. Old quizzes e. classwork and worksheets f. old homework.
FIND A WAY THAT HELPS YOU LEARN, THEN USE IT! Study with someone, over the phone, make practice quizzes for yourself, do makeup work, etc.

Friday, Jan. 16th: Review of CST test

Review of the Practice CST Test

1. Warm-up: Moving equilibrium right or left.
2. Schedule for rest of semester/my absences on Jan. 23, 26, 27.
2. Review the CST test
3. Go over Spit Lab
4. Review final assignments for the semester: Packet #8
a. Silver Nitrate Lab
b. Spit Lab
c. Straw Equilibrium Lab
d. Hot and Cold Lab
e. Practice CST test
f. Thermodynamics Lab
g. Thermodynamics worksheet

Homework: Finish QP (see this handout)
Finish CST worksheet

Thursday, Jan. 15th: Practice CST test

STUDENTS! PLEASE TAKE TODAY TO PRACTICE SHOWING WHAT YOU KNOW!

1. Take the practice exam for the CST.

2. After you finish the exam, work in pairs to correct it with your notes, figure out what you really still don’t understand.

Homework: Make sure your Quarter project is complete; finish CST worksheet (everything except the Thermodynamics section); make sure all classwork and homework is done.

SATURDAY SCHOOL THIS SATURDAY, JAN. 17TH, 8 AM TO 12 PM!!!

Wednesday, Jan. 14th: Intro to Thermodynamics

Big Idea: Heat can be created or absorbed by chemical reactions.

1. Warm-up: Define equilibrium. Explain how to shift equilibrium to right or left.
2. Thermo demos (burning matches, hot and cold packs)
3. Stoichiometry with combustion reactions (balancing equations where combustion happens). Ask Dr. Rico for the examples.
4. Hot and Cold Lab (ask for handout).

Homework: Type up Quarter Project.

Tuesday, Jan. 13th: More Equilibrium

Big idea: Equations can run backwards and forwards, and usually do. Equilibrium is when they come to a stable state, with products and reactants no longer changing.

1. Warm-up: Explain what an equilibrium equation says.
2. Complete Spit Lab; debrief.
3. Potato demonstration with Hydrogen Peroxide
4. Review equilibrium definition and what Straw Lab illustrated
5. Begin Notes #19 on Equilibrium

Homework: same as Monday (see Monday!)

Monday, Jan. 12th, 2009: Equilibrium

Monday:
Big idea: Equations can run backwards and forwards, and usually do. Equilibrium is when they come to a stable state, with products and reactants no longer changing.

1. Warm-up: on board (see warm-up notebooklet)
2. Collect homework; assign new homework
3. Intro. to equilibrium: Equations can run forwards and backwards.
4. Equilibrium lab: Straw Equilibrium

Homework: 1. QP explanation to someone due Jan. 14th. QP improvements AND extension due Jan. 14th. Final draft, all typed, due Jan. 28th. GET IT IN EARLY FOR EXTRA CREDIT! 2. CST worksheet on equilibrium done (all sections except thermodynamics done).

Friday, Jan. 9th: Finish Silver Nitrate Lab

1. Warm-up: def. and example of catalyst.
2. Review briefly for quiz, find out what happened yesterday.
3. Finish Silver Nitrate lab and calculations.
4. Demo of a catalyst: silver in hydrogen peroxide.
5. Brief quiz (Quiz #14) on reaction rates, mass calculations.
6. Review of organic molecules, catalysts that break down these organic molecules.
7. Spit Lab

Homework:
1. QP explanation to someone due Jan. 14th. QP improvements AND extension due Jan. 14th. Final draft, all typed, due Jan. 28th. GET IT IN EARLY FOR EXTRA CREDIT!
2. Explain lab to someone, and why we spit into a test tube! Make sure your explanation includes the definition of a catalyst, and what the catalyst was in our experiment. Get 2 questions/comments and a signature/phone number.

Thursday, Jan. 8th: Review of Quiz #13

Thursday: review of catalysts (Sub day: Dr. Rico out at the City College PD day)
1. Warm-up: mass-to-mass calculation.
2. Review quiz from Tuesday in lab groups, make sure everyone’s quiz is corrected to 100%.
3. Review catalysts, reading of energy graphs, activation energy with the homework worksheet.

Wednesday, Jan. 7th: Silver Nitrate Experiment

Reaction Rates Notes and Demonstration

1. Warm-up: Silver nitrate mass-mass calculation and molarity calculation.
2. Collect homework, review selected problems. Remind students of timetable for QP.
3. Complete Day 2 of Silver Nitrate Lab.
4. Review reaction rates. Kinesthetic demonstration of how different forces (temperature, pressure, concentration) increase reaction rates. G + B ---> GB
5. Notes #18: Reaction Rates

Homework: Reaction rates worksheet

Tuesday, Jan. 6th: Quiz #13 and Reaction Rates

Big Idea: Chemical reactions occur over time, and different factors (temp., pressure, concentration) affect how fast or slow they occur.

1. Study for quiz 5 minutes. 5 minutes of review (10 min.)
2. Quiz #13 Review of Chemistry. (20 min.)
3. Day 2 of Silver nitrate experiment (10 min.)

Check homework for Monday, be sure to do it.

Monday, Jan. 5th, 2009: Reaction Rates

Big Idea: Chemical reactions occur over time, and different factors (temp., pressure, concentration) affect how fast or slow they occur.

1. Warm-up: mass of reactant/product problem.
2. Go over grades and schedule for rest of the year. Collect holiday homework, review select problems. Holiday Homework Page One Holiday Homework Page Two
3. Review demo from previous Friday: Alka-selzer in hot and cold water.
4. Demo: Silver nitrate and copper: observing reaction rates.
5. Short lab: silver nitrate reaction and worksheet
6. Homework and review of main ideas.

Homework: 1. complete most of the CST sheet, type it up, correct it from last time. Due Wednesday.
2. Study for quiz tomorrow.
3. QP analysis and sources of error due Wednesday.

Friday, Dec. 19th: Santa Shows Up

Friday: Last day on gas laws, demo of reaction rates, relax and have fun for a few minutes!

1. Warm-up: Combined Gas law problem. Solutions problem. Review.
2. Make sure students understand the homework packet for the break.
3. Practice with all the equations. (Make and switch.)
4. Demo of reaction rates
5. Relax and enjoy time with the students.
6. Quiz on the Tuesday after we get back from break. Study over the break, specific homework to study.

Homework: 2 pages of review material, double-sided. Due on Monday after break.

Thursday, Dec. 18th: More Gas Law Practice

Thursday: More practice and intro to reaction rates.

1. Warm-up: Charles’ and Boyle’s Law problems.
2. More practice; introduce combined gas law problems.
3. Practice on Combined Gas Law problems (worksheet), due at end of period.
4. Collect Packet #7.
5. Introduce reaction rates: Demonstration with Alka Seltzer
6. Go over homework packet for the break.

Homework packet: finish parts of CST worksheet that we have covered! Do all problems, try not to use the cheat sheet. Study all notes.

Wednesday, Dec. 17th: Practice with the Gas Laws

Big idea: the pressure, volume, and temperature of a gas are related in clear mathematical ways. Can you calculate one, given the other two?

1. Warm-up: Go over quiz problems, correct them.
2. Finish Notes #17: The Gas Laws
3. Practice Charles’s Law on board.
4. Practice Boyle’s Law on the board.
5. Worksheets, rest of problems for homework, DUE TOMORROW.

Homework: complete worksheets to hand in with Packet #7.