Balancing Equations

 Watch the video on balancing equations

You may try using our class lego to balance equations by assigning a lego piece to an atom. 

 You may also work on the chemistry practice sheets on nomenclature. 

Calcium Lab lab report

Assignment:   Write up our lab on Calcium and water. FORMAT:  paper write up or word doc or pdf or powerpoint 

 Your lab must include the following

1.  Your First and Last name 

2. Purpose of lab:  The purpose of the lab is to find out what happens when you add calcium to water. PART I  Describe the teacher demo that preceded this lab. 

PART II DESCRIBE THE STUDENT EXPERIMENT IN DETAIL 

3.a Materials: write a complete list of materials that we used 

b.  Safety:  list the safety precautions for this lab

4. Procedure: Draw a cartoon to describe the step by step procedure  that is so well written that another person could read it and replicate your actions exactly. You may also upload pics demonstrating your procedure. 

A. PROCEDURE WITH TEST TUBE AND BEAKER

B  PROCEDURE WITH BEAKER AND SOAP

5.  What is the question we are trying to answer?  For example there were two possible gases that came out of this reaction.  What gases were they? What were possible outcomes of this lab?

6. Results:  Describe in detail what happened after you did the procedure.  Include any photos you took.  How did you know you made the gas, which gas?  

7.  What was the white stuff?  How did you test for the identity of the white stuff? 

8. Write your conclusion in paragraph form.  


EVALUATION   IS OUT OF 25 IN TOTAL

5
presentation is out of 5.  for 5/5 it is typed  with illustrations or photos and handed in electronically or on paper

     for 4/5 it is pretty good but there are a few spelling mistakes.  for 0-3 out of 5 it is in pencil or messy.  I prefer this to be printed

10
Clear writing is out of 10.  for 9/10 or 10/10, it is written with no English mistakes and it clearly communicates each part of the lab report.    7-8/10  it is very well written     for 5-6/10 some parts are not so clear and the reader must guess what you are trying to say.  0-4/10, it is minimally communicating what happened

10
Paragraphs are insightful and your observations are well done. this is out of 10.
             9-10/10,   your observations and conclusions are well written and logical.  It is brilliant
              7-8/10   your observations and conclusions are very well done
               5-6   your conclusions don't really logically follow from your results
                0-4   your conclusions are not relating to your results at all

reviewing nomenclature

 we reviewed how to do ionic compound nomenclature . You can practice ionic and covalent nomenclature by going to this page here. Watch the videos to review how to do it and then do the practice  questions

NOMENCLATURE PRACTICE

Colour code the periodic table

 We did a worksheet on Elements and also another one on the periodic table. I asked you to colour code the periodic table 

Lab on elements and compounds

We did a lab where we looked at samples of known compounds and elements. We then looked at some unknown samples and tried to guess whether we were looking at an element or compound. A lab write up was made on this activity  

Introduction to Chemistry

   

An analogy for Atoms, Compounds and Formula, drawn by SN This video is the first in the series for beginner Chemistry. In this video, I use the analogy of the atom as units very much like "lego bricks". This analogy was first used by researchers in MIT.

Salt and ice lab

 We did a salt and ice lab to see the affect of a solute on the melting point of water