Monday, 17 December 2018

Dec 18: Make a big summary sheet for your test next day!

Use a big 11 by 17 piece of paper and make a big summary sheet explaining how Bohr diagrams work and also Lewis diagrams.  Explain how to calculate atomic mass!  Use all the vocab words in your two worksheets handed out.  Make it creative, make it beautiful and colourful.  Explain how to draw the Lewis structure of ATOMS vs IONS.  When you are done, put your name on your summary sheet.  You will be given a mark out of 5 for your efforts today.

And try out these problems below:




















Answers are here:

Thursday, 22 November 2018

What's on our test?

Test date:        Day 2 November  29
                        Day 1  November 30, 2018


You will have a periodic table.
1.  20 questions on Naming formula and writing names:    
a.  monatomic     NaCl,      CaCl2
b.  polyatomic     (NH4)2SO4
c.  covalent        CO

2.  20 marks on acid base neutralization equations. 
3.  20 marks on balancing equations
4.  Challenging questions:  10 marks. 
I will give you a word equation.  You convert that to formula equation, and then balance it.

20 Multiple choice questions on Acids, Bases and indicators and our labs. See our worksheets on acid and base.

ex. What colour does phenylpthalein turn for base?  pink
What colour does litmus paper turn for acid?  red
What colour does universal indicator turn for base?  blue

What happens when you put a burning splint to Oxygen?  to Hydrogen?

Hand in a big summary sheet worth 10 test marks
Summary sheet is due Day 1  November 30. 
Day 2 Dec 3

Your summary sheet must include:
1.  What is the periodic table and what are some patterns? families:  halogen gases, alkali metals, alkali earth metals
2.  Where are the metals and nonmetals on the periodic table?  What are transition metals?  What are the charges for some families on the periodic table?

3.  How do you find a name or formula?
a.  monatomic compounds
b. polyatomic compounds
c. transition metal compounds
d. nonmetal-nonmetal compounds?

4.  Give examples of balancing equations. write a how to guide

5.  Write a summary of everything about ACIDS and BASES and INDICATORS
6.  Write a short summary of our labs:    liver latte lab,   calcium and water lab,   dry ice lab,   3 unknown substances lab.




Wednesday, 14 November 2018

Unknown Substance A, B and C

You have been given 3 beakers of unknown substances.   Devise an experiment to determine the identity of these substances.  Note that a hint is in a few of the worksheets that have been handed out in the last two weeks!

1.  Title of lab   5 marks
2.  Collaborators and pie graph:  who are the investigators and what did they do?   5 marks
3.  Write your purpose in a paragraph.     10 marks
You write clearly and get your point across. you write well      7-10 marks
your paragraph is not in sentence form or it is not so clear 5-6 marks
your paragraph needs some editing or some work to make it complete  0-4 marks
4.   Write your procedure in a step by step fashion with illustrations in pen and in colour   
10 marks
your steps are very clear and your illustrations and photos are very detailed and help tell the story effectively
7-10 marks
your steps are clear and you have a few illustrations
3-6 marks

your steps tell the story and needs more work to make it complete
0-2 marks


Results and Discussion  10 marks
You report your results and describe what you found in a clear fashion with illustrations and photos
8-10 marks
your results are easy to understand
6-8
your results are hard to understand
0-5


Conclusion   5 marks
Note that your result can be "inconclusive" if you are not sure of what happened!

You tell me your conclusion AND your reasoning in a well written fashion
4-5

you tell me your conclusion but  your reasoning is not easily followed
3/5

you simply write a conclusion with no reasoning
0-2


Wednesday, 31 October 2018

Carbon Dioxide Lab.

Write up the carbon dioxide lab that we did today.  You may hand in your lab in pairs or threes
THIS LAB IS OUT OF 60 MARKS

1.  Title of Lab:  Make up your own title of this lab     2 marks
2.  Collaborators:  Write the full names of the investigators and write down what percentage of the write up was done by them     3 marks

3.  Purpose of lab:  Write a short paragraph describing your purpose:  5 marks
4.   Materials:  Write a list of materials that you used for your experiment      5 marks
5.   Procedure:  Write a step by step procedure describing our three out of experiments:

a. Observing at a coin with dry ice under a microscope
b. Put a piece of dry ice in cold water , then in hot water
c.  DEMO: Put some NaOH in a flask, add universal indicator.  observe the colour.  Now add a piece of dry ice.  What happens
d.  move the dry ice around like it was a hockey puck.  Why does it slide across the table?


Write a step by step clear procedure that is easy to understand.  Also, make a cartoon of your procedure:  out of 20
17-20/20    excellent, clear writing and pictures
13-16/20    very good procedure with pictures
10/20          procedure is written 
0-9/20          procedure is hard to understand

Observations and Discussion   /20

For each experiment, write and draw or provide photographs for your observations.  Beside your drawings or photos, EXPLAIN how this happened.  Use balanced equations
out of 20
17-20/20      you have a keen eye for detail in observations and you write your observations well: your pictures are very clear.  You understand why the phenomena happened and you explain it clearly. You show exceptional insight. 
13-16/20      very good write up.  You summarize your observations and your explanations are clear.  You clearly reflected on this.

0-11/20   you need to spend a bit more time describing the phenomena and also explaining it


Conclusion      out of 5
You summarize your findings in the conclusion.


Monday, 22 October 2018

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Tuesday, 16 October 2018

Naming acids practice

Today we reviewed naming acids and I asked you to write  "...ide" acids and    "...ite " acids and also    "...ate" acids. also you did an exercise in naming acids last block.  Now you can do the naming acids practice on page 18 in the Chemistry practice sheet Here is the Chemistry practice sheet key.