Chemistry
September 2008
Monday
1
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
2
Seating Chart, Student
Info sheet (due Thurs)
Intro, Chemistry show,
Textbooks
3
4
5
What Are You Good At BR,
Multiple Intelligences,
Syllabus, Meet your table
partner, Class rules, Table
partner intros
Collect Student info, Check
binder HW, Lab safety BR,
Finish table partner intros,
Guess Which is Not True,
Lab safety 101, Elements
(quiz next week)
Sci. Method BR, Rope trick
& the Scientific Method,
How to Succeed in Chem
(+demos), Einstein quote,
discuss
8
9
10
11
12
Review Sci. Method, How
to Get a Date BR, Lab
rules, NASA article, Why
metric system?,
Measurement Lab, discuss
Calculator check, Making
accurate measurements BR,
Calculate % error & teach
proper device reading, S.I.
Units, SigFigs, Measurement &
Calculation Practice as HW
Lab safety quiz, Chem lab
checklist & practice making
accurate measurements,
Measurements &
Calculations Practice as HW
Element Quiz, Reading
scales, SigFigs, Sci. Not, %
Error, Converting metricmetric, Dimensional
analysis, Calculations
Practice Sheet as HW
Check HW, Lab report
format, No bake cookies
lab
15
16
17
18
19
Measurements BR, Hand
back quizzes, Discuss BR,
Answers to Calc. Prac.
Sheet
Calc. BR, Making
Accurate Measurements
lab (7 stations, 3 min
each), Answers & % error
Finish lab, calculate % error,
add up scores and hand in,
show website,
Conv/SigFig/SciNot Practice
as HW
Pick up Metric System
Conversion Factors,
Conv/SigFig/SciNot
Practice, review for quiz
Conv/SigFig/SciNot Quiz,
Conv/SigFig/SciNot Quiz,
Update Table of Contents,
Metric-US Conversions
sheet
22
23
24
25
26
Go over answers to
Metric-US Conversions
sheet, Density & % Error
lab
Finish & discuss Density
& % Error lab, Prelab
Density of Soft Drinks lab
Density of Soft Drinks lab
Postlab Soft Drink lab,
work on lab report, Lab
Report Grading Symbols
& Rubric
Energy BR, discuss, Energy
notes & demos, Introduction
to Physical /Chemical
changes, Go over quizzes,
Monday help session
29
30
1
2
3
Physical & Chemical
Properties BR, Go over
quizzes, help session,
Discuss BR & Prelab
Phys & Chem Prop Lab
Finish lab, postlab
discussion, review
phys/chem. Properties &
change, book question HW
Converting temp, Matter
(mixtures), Law of Cons.
of Matter,
Review for Test
No School
(Labor Day)
Chemistry
October 2008
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
6
7
8
9
10
Unit 1 Test Review
Unit 1 Test, Update Table
of contents, Unit 2
Intro to Atomic Structure,
New Seats, Go over Unit
2 Test
Review atomic structure,
History of the atom notes
History of the atom notes
13
14
15
16
17
Finish History of atom
notes, Gold Foil golf ball
demo, Begin Pennium lab
Finish Pennium lab,
compile data, graph,
answer questions
Collect labs
Isotopes, Ions, Nuclear
decay practice,
diagramming atoms
Radiation &
electromagnetic spectrum
demo w/ spectroscope,
Review for quiz
Atomic structure &
radiation quiz,
20
21
22
23
24
Electromagnetic spectrum,
orbitals, Energy level
demos
Electron configuration, go
over Ch. 4 Quiz, Review
Unit 2 Test, Update Table
of Contents, Mole day
breakfast menu
Testing Day
Sign up for molelympics,
work on mole day
assignments
Mole Day Celebration
Collect Mole Day
assignments
27
28
29
30
31
Valence electron BR,
hang moles and make ion
flashcards, Families & v.e.
& structure of per. table,
color metals/nonmentals/
metalloids
Check HW, V.E.2 BR,
finish coloring per. table,
cut out Ionic Compounds
Activity, discuss BR &
teach per. table trends in
ion formation
BR, Ionic Compounds
Activity, Formula
Worksheet #1
Cation quiz, Work on
Formula Worksheet #1,
Formula Worksheet #2
as HW
Check HW, Pass out
correct answers and
discuss
Halloween Demos
Chemistry
November 2008
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
3
4
5
6
7
Trends in the Periodic
Table Activity
Anion Quiz
Collect & discuss Trends
in the Periodic Table
assignment
Ionization energy BR,
Discuss trends for radius
& I.E., Getting to know
the per. table
Practice ACT Test
Finish Getting to Know
the Periodic Table
Writing Polyatomic
Formulas worksheet as
HW, Martian Periodic
Table activity as HW
10
11
12
13
14
Check HW, Go over
answers to P.F. sheet,
Periodic Trends Practice
Work on Practice Test
Go over answers to
Practice Test, review
Unit 3 Test
Update T of C, organize
binders
Gone for opener of gun
season, Test & quiz
makeup day
17
18
19
20
21
Go over Unit 3 Test
Properties of w\Water
demo & questions
Types of Bonds
PowerPoint notes,
Predicting bond type
based on electronegativity
difference
Types of bond BR, Octet
rule, Loopy Lewis Dot
activity
Finish Loopy Lewis Dot
activity
Lewis Dot Structure
Worksheet as HW
24
25
Building molecules
activity & Molecular
Geometry
Chapter 7 Quiz
Finish building molecules
activity
(half day due to curriculum
development for myself &
Groenhout)
Thanksgiving
Break
Chemistry
December 2008
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
1
2
3
4
5
Naming mol. compounds
BR, discuss, Naming
ionic compounds &
molecules (finish as HW),
Molecular shape lab
Check HW, discuss &
collect the Molecular
shape lab, Pass out
practice test
Review, go over practice
test
Unit 4 Test, Update T of
C
Go over tests, New seats,
Discuss grading policies &
retaking tests, Write 5 most
important concepts from
each of the first 8 chapters,
book #s in Excel
8
9
10
11
12
Pick up Carbon Chemistry
Basics notes, Bacon BR,
discuss & show picture of
sat. fat.
Work on CCB notes & build
organic compounds
Finish Carbon Chemistry
Basics Alkanes notes,
Naming practice
Check Naming alkanes
HW, Notes on naming
alkenes & alkynes,
Naming alkenes &
alkynes practice.
15
16
17
18
19
22
23
Christmas Break
Chemistry
January 2008
Monday
29
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
30
31
1
2
5
6
7
8
9
12
13
14
15
16
Christmas Break
st
1 Semester
Final Exams
19
No School
PD Day
26
20
1st Day of 2nd Semester
21
22
23
27
28
29
30