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Chemistry Chat!
Directions: Welcome to the first day of school! Today you will be participating in “Chemistry Chat.”
This is an activity designed to test your knowledge of science, and to allow you to meet as many of your
fellow classmates as possible. I will be asking you to: (1) Tell me about yourself, (2) complete science
tasks, and (3) meet and get to know your classmates. You will be rotating through various stations, but
while you are waiting for us to begin, please fill out the “All About Me” section below. I will let you know
when it is time to start on the first station.
All About Me:
1.
My full name is __________________________________________ and I prefer to be called ________________________.
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What is the best thing you did this summer? ______________________________________________________________
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Describe something about yourself that makes you proud. _____________________________________________
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When I leave high school, I would like to: _________________________________________________________________
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What would you like to be doing ten years from now? ___________________________________________________
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What is your most and least favorite thing about school? _______________________________________________
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Lab Station #1
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Describe the contents of the stoppered flask. ____________________________________________________________
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2. What happened when the magnet was placed against the flask? ________________________________________
3. Are the properties you just described in questions 1 and 2 physical properties or chemical
properties? Explain your answer. _________________________________________________________________________
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4. Describe the reaction between the starch and iodine. ____________________________________________________
5. Are the properties you just described in question 4 physical properties or chemical properties?
Explain your answer. ________________________________________________________________________________________
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6. Name of each group member? ______________________________________________________________________________
7. List one thing each group member did over the summer. _______________________________________________
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Lab Station #2
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What is the independent variable? ________________________________________________________________________
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What is the dependent variable? ___________________________________________________________________________
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In what type of environment would you most likely find Fish Species 1? Explain your answer.
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In what type of environment would you most likely find Fish Species 2? Explain your answer.
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How much oxygen is consumed by Fish Species 1 when the salinity is 10 ppt? ________________________
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Fish Species 2 will consume 6 mg/min of oxygen at what salinity? _____________________________________
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Name of each group member? ______________________________________________________________________________
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In what school activities are you (and your group members) involved in or interested in joining?
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Lab Station #3
For each numbered sample, determine if the sample is a metal or a nonmetal.
Sample 1: _________________________
Sample 2: _________________________
Sample 3: _________________________
Sample 4: _________________________
Sample 5: _________________________
Sample 6: _________________________
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How would you describe metals? __________________________________________________________________________
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How would you describe nonmetals? ______________________________________________________________________
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Name of each group member? ______________________________________________________________________________
10. What is one thing you would change about the school if given the chance? The group must agree
on one change. _______________________________________________________________________________________________
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Lab Station #4
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A horizontal row on the periodic table is a _________________ and a column is called a _________________.
What colors of this periodic table contain elements that are metals? ___________________________________
What color represents the noble gases? ___________________________________________________________________
What color represents the transition metals? _____________________________________________________________
The yellow column on the right side of the table contains elements called? ___________________________
The lanthanides and actinides are identified by what color? ____________________________________________
Name of each group member? ______________________________________________________________________________
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What is your dream job? (List yours as well as your group members.) _________________________________
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Lab Station #5
Name of Equipment
It is used to measure:
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It measures in units
called:
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Name of each group member? ________________________________________________________________________________
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What are you good at that nobody knows? List answers for your group as well as your own.
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Lab Station #6
Lab Safety Feature:
Location:
It is used for:
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Name of each group member? ________________________________________________________________________________
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What are the favorite movies of the group members? _____________________________________________________
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Lab Station #7
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Describe what is happening in the dancing raisin demonstration. _______________________________________
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Form a hypothesis that explains the behavior of the dancing raisins. ____________________________________
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Name of each group member? ________________________________________________________________________________
4.
If you could travel anywhere, what place would you choose? Include your answer and those of your
group members. _______________________________________________________________________________________________
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Lab Station #8
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Which item has a mass greater than a kilogram? ___________________________________________________________
Which item has a volume less than one liter? _______________________________________________________________
Which object would most appropriately be massed in milligrams? _______________________________________
The length of this object would be appropriately measured in centimeters. _____________________________
The volume of this object can be determined by measuring its length, width, and height. _____________
Which object has the lowest density? ________________________________________________________________________
Name of each group member? ________________________________________________________________________________
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If you could be an animal, what animal would you pick? Include your answer and those of your
group members. ______________________________________________________________________________________________
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Lab Station #9
Using the chart of prefixes and suffixes, try to determine the meaning of each of the following words.
1. Chemist: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Polyatomic: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Heterogeneous: ________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. Condensation: _________________________________________________________________________________________________
5. Fission: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________
6. Transmutation: ________________________________________________________________________________________________
7. Calorimeter: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
8. Name of each group member? ________________________________________________________________________________
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What are the favorite foods of the members of this group? _______________________________________________
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Name of each group member?
Lab Station #10
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What are the favorite free time
activities of the members of this
group? _________________________________
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