Parents/Students End of Year Survey - Chemistry Pearson 2011-12
Please print and send to school with your child or e-mail to me for 10 pts extra credit
(I won’t read responses until summer fold over or put in envelope)
Over the course of the year your son/daughter has had many lab experiences, and studied many topics. To help
remind you and your child here are some of the experiences we have had.
If you remember and think I should keep it put a “+” if you remember and think it wasn’t worth it put a “–“
Here are some of the lab activities we have done:
Sugar in gum (% composition) __________
Polar/non-polar solvents ___ (dissolve in baby oit or H2O)
Density of objects (Sig Figs) __________
Flaming gummy bear demo_________
GOLD penny__________
Molar volume of H2 gas (Mg & HCl) _____
Isotopes of pennies __ _____
IODINE CLOCK DESIGN A LAB _______
M&M isotopes (weighted portions) _______
Design a single replacement lab ________
Bean “Bunches” (mole concept) _________
LeChatalier principle (“blood”) __________
CuSO4 hydrate lab __________
Titration of vinegar __________
Empirical formula of MgO __________
Salt hydrolysis (strong parent acids and bases, the
H2 and O2 Rockets __________
salts make the indicator change color) ______
Making salt from baking soda __________
Take home pH lab _________
Pseudo putty __________
18 CHEMICAL SEMISTER Final _______
Specific heat of metals __________
Properties of selected gases (air, O2, H2, CO2,
Calories in a peanut __________
methane) ___________
Snow globe w/ chemical twist_______
Cu Sequence (all week; started in the hood ended
Solubility of an unknown __________
with tiny bits of copper) _________
How low can you go? Freezing pt depression_______
Electro chem. potential (Air battery) ______
Flame test (colored fires) __________
Slime lab _not this year_________
Periodic puzzle ________ (cut and paste elements in order)
Using clickers to help review ________
3-D molecular models __________( model setss)
( not yet % water in popcorn ) ________
This year we had a student teacher Ms Newman; was this experience a good one?
Topics my son/daughter enjoyed include:
Topics my son/daughter struggled with: (how did they find the level of math required?)
About how many hours per week (outside of class) did your child study chemistry? (too much/too little)
If your child missed class did they find the teacher available for extra help?
Additional comment: