Sunday, December 14, 2008

Friday, Dec. 12th: Intro to Volume, Pressure, and Temperature

Big Idea: When dealing with gases, the temp., pressure, and volume are clearly related.

1. Warm-up: Explain how the love meter works. Do last problem on quiz #11 as warm-up, too.
2. Collect homework, hand out graded work.
3. Go over Quiz #11.
2. Mini-lab: Balloon in hot and cold water, mini-marshmallows in syringe. What is relationship between temperature and volume? Between pressure and volume?

Homework: Get in late/make-up work! End of time for progress report.

Thursday, Dec. 11th: Introduction to Gases

BIG IDEA: Molecules move!

1. Warm-up: determine molarity if given 20 g of NaCl in 50 mL of solution.
2. Practice with these kinds of problems.
3. Hand out Love Meter and make guesses on how it works.
4. Notes #16: Molecular Motion
5. Explain how love meter works.

Homework: Make up 5 solutions problems like the warm-up, solve them.

Wednesday, Dec. 10th: Practice with Making Solutions

BIG IDEA: You can calculate the molarity of a solution, and make solutions of a particular molarity!

1. Warm-up: how many grams of Sr(NO3)2 needed to create 100 ml of a 2M Sr(NO3)2 solution?
2. Practice with problems in making different solutions of things we’ve used in the classroom: 3M NaOH, 8M HNO3.
3. Short lab: have each lab group make different concentrations of Kool-Aid: 0.01 M, 0.1 M., 0.25 M., 0.5 M., 0.75 M., 0.9 M., 1 M, and 2 M. Line up the different molarities to see if they were done correctly.

Homework: 1. Make up 3 solutions problems where you provide the molarity (M) and the amount you want to make, and then find the # of grams you need to do it.
2. Quarter Project, complete Trial 2 by next Wednesday.

Tuesday, Dec. 9th: Notes on Solutions

BIG IDEA: You can calculate the molarity of a solution, and make solutions of a particular molarity!

1. Warm-up: practice on balanced equations, moles/mass and back.
2. Notes #15: Solutions
3. Solutions Worksheet: Practice with making particular amounts of different molarities of solutions.

Homework: none

Monday, Dec. 8th: Introduction to Solutions

BIG IDEA: You need to know moles to mass/mass to moles in order to make solutions.

1. Warm-up: Practice problem on calculating masses of a reactant and a product.
2. Practice with these calculations.
3. Quiz #11.
3. Introduce vocabulary: solute and solvent.

1. Homework: Types of Reactions worksheet, don't forget problems on the back side!
2. Rewrite and improve the procedure for Trial 2 of your Quarter Project.