Thursday, 14 March 2024
Monday, 11 March 2024
Chemistry Karate Practice!
This is the Chemistry practice sheet Here is the Chemistry practice sheet key.
Do the work on this practice sheet on your own piece of paper up to page 11. If you finish, you can continue your practice. Take breaks as you need to! This is hard work!
later, is an activity next week called " Chemistry Karate" where your chemistry skills will be respectfully assessed by myself and by peers and you will demonstrate your level of chemistry karate belt. The goal is to move up one belt, not for everyone to be a black belt !
Tuesday, 5 March 2024
TYPES OF REACTIONS
TEACHING NOTES: First lets review the main types of reactions:
Study Guide and answer key below
answer key to your chapter 6 worksheet
LESSON: Chemical reactions may be categorized as follows :
Metal + oxygen --> metal oxide
ACID BASE REACTIONS ARE ALL NEUTRALIZATION REACTIONS
Friday, 1 March 2024
Calcium lab report
Lab Jounral assignment includes the following labs:
Assignment: Write up our lab on Calcium and water. FORMAT: paper write up or word doc or pdf or powerpoint
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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.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.
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 are the three BALANCED EQUATIONS that 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?
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
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
Monday, 26 February 2024
Bohr Diagram and Lewis Diagram
You will practice drawing Bohr Diagrams and Lewis diagrams. You can practice this by working through this Study guide on the same topic and the Answer key or you can work on any worksheets provided in class.
Your teacher will make a list of your names from the attendance roster and give you 5 marks for completing this work
Wednesday, 14 February 2024
The Analogy of Lego and an intro to the Periodic Table
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.





