Week One June 18-22
#1) 1st HW due Tue. June 19 (plan to spend two or more hours per night)
*indicates which student will be responsible for explaining that question in class
- Read/annotate the syllabus and Course Outline (note any questions)
- Quiz: # hours homework/day? Does class participation count? Who has to sign the syllabus? The Safety Contract?
- Qz: Do you do your homework on your blog? What about drawings? What if you don’t have internet?
- Read/annotate Riverwood and Distinguish Facts from Opinions
- Qz: Does Riverwood worry about water supply or pollution? (p.6)
- Qz: How many days will you keep a family water diary? (p.8) how will your diary table look? (p.9)
- Qz: How is water needed to make orange juice or an egg? (p.8)
- Qz: What is the purpose of the Foul Water Lab? (p.10-15) What steps will you perform in the lab to purify the foul water? (p.10)
- Qz: What is a Histogram and what does it show? (p.13)
- Qz: What is the greatest percentage of water is used nationally? (p.16)
- Qz: What percentage of water is fresh? Salt? (p.18)
- Read, annotate, and comprehend A.1, A.2, A.3, A.4, A.5, A.6, p.6-19
- Quick Blog Question: Note on p. 7 major questions about water supply and purity. Keep these in your mind all through the unit. Which is more critical in your (early) opinion?
- Answer on blog: ISAS #1, 2, 8-13, 17 on p. 23-24 (ISAS means unit I Section A Summary)
- Answer on blog: A.5 #1-3 on p.17
- Qz: What water could you do without? What could you not do without? (p.22)
- Qz: Give examples of direct and indirect water use. (p.23)
- Qz: Give three techniques for purifying water. (p.23)
- Prepare for Foul Water Lab, annotate & understand the procedure A.3 p.10-15
- Qz Terms: Meniscus, filtration,
- Get your notebook organized (see syllabus), Review first day notes
- Get parent signature on lab safety sheet (Lab Safety Agreement Form) and Student Safety Contract, and Syllabus
- Sign Behavioral Expectations and put in your notebook
- Fill out the Student information form
- Plan and prepare your home Water Diary recording sheet (due filled out with three days’ data by next Monday, June 20. Get your family to cooperate.)
- Create your own blog at https://www.blogger.com/start
(If you already have a gmail or Google account, sign in first at the top of the page with your user name and password. If you don’t already have a gmail or user account, click “Create Blog” and use your Buckley email address @buckleyla.org to create one.)
--Choose a name for your blog. (This will be your permanent blogging address).
Examples:
· Stephanati.blogspot.com
· Sydamentary.blogspot.com
· BrandX.blogspot.com
· Spenceritis.blogspot.com
· Liviandlearn.blogspot.com
--You may use your first name, but for internet safety reasons, don't use your last name, the name of the school, or photos of any students.
--Choose a template design.
--Create a heading title. (Greets readers and stays at the top)
--Preview then Publish your blog.
--ADD INSTRUCTOR AS AUTHOR: Go to Dashboard, click Settings, click Permissions, Add authors, type in jforman@buckley.org and save.
--Add photo from Google images (search chemistry, science, etc.) and download pictures to myPictures in myDocs.
--When creating blogs, click the photo image (next to link) and browse to MyPictures and add.
- Begin your blog, post an introduction to yourself, and type your homework there.
- Remember: if you occasionally do not have access to a computer or the internet, you may complete your homework on paper and keep it in your notebook.
- Remember: you should do your own homework, even though others may have blogged their homework before you. Afterwards, if you are confused about something, you make look at others’ blogs to clarify, but you should never copy answers from another’s work.
- Be sure to follow the main class blog by submitting your email.
- Also, become a follower on the main class blog.
#2) HW Due Wed. June 20 FOUL WATER LAB REPORT
- In class we will do the Foul Water Lab. Take good notes to write a lab report.
- Read and Annotate A.8, p.22, B.1, B.2, B.3, p.26-30
- Qz terms to define, understand, give examples of: physical property, *1 matter,*2 density,*3 freezing point,*4 aqueous solution*5, surface tension*6 (p.27), melting point*7, boiling point*8, suspension*9, mixture, heterogeneous mixture (p.28), Tyndall effect, colloid, homogeneous mixture, solution, solute, solvent (p.29), Matter chart (p.30)
- Answer on blog: 1SAS #3*1, 4*2, 5*3, 6*4, 7*5 , p.23, and A.8 #1-4*6-7-8-9 pg 22
- Qz: Why can’t foul water lab make seawater drinkable? (p.23) What process can?
- Write up a proper Foul Water Lab Report to turn in (with drawings/pictures)
- Collect Water Diary Data at home (for 3 days)
- Make Unit 1A vocab list: all bold words, all italicized, and words you don’t know (list and define on a new blog post)
Respond to any of the following ideas/goals in a short response in your Blog:
- Priorities for the summer: remember big ideas long after the course is over.
1. How Chemistry fits into the Science family, what its role is, what it helps us understand.
2. Weigh in: Which is worse? Water shortages vs. Water pollution?
Know the chemical properties of water that bear on these two issues. Debate online and in class. Inform yourself first. Have an informed opinion. Be able to argue either side.
3. Understand the Chemistry and issues around global warming and air pollution, including the chemical processes.
4. Have an understanding of the invisible world of matter underneath the 'surface.'
5. Know how the periodic table works and be able to describe the order that is natural in the world of matter.
Keep these themes in your blogs and thoughts throughout the summer and be able to discuss and debate them well.
#3) HW due Thursday, June 21 (two hours)
- Read/annotate B.4 p.31 (carefully)
- Answer on blog ISBS #1-12*1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 p.50 [SKETCH ON PAPER: #9]
- Qz terms (give examples, understand, define, explain): particulate level, atoms, element, compound, chemical formula, substance, molecule, molecular compound (p.31), physical properties of water, density of ice vs. water,
- Study for Quiz 1 (Section A except A.7, Section B.1-B.4)
- Collect Water Data at home
- Make a unit 1 B.1-B.4 vocab list
#4) HW due Friday, June 22 (two hours)
- Complete Supplement 1 (units and conversion) (on paper or on blog)
- Qz: know how to do unit conversions
- Read/annotate B.5 p.32-34
- Answer on blog:B.5 #1-3*7-8-9 p. 33 [SKETCH DRAWINGS ON PAPER]
- QZ: Draw monatomic gas with diatomic gas. Examples? Distribution? Be able to interpret models. Draw iodine as a solid vs. gas. (p.33)
- Collect Water Diary Data at home for 3 days and bring to class completed on Monday
- Science Report summarize one article on your blog for extra credit.
· Go to Young library, Databases, Science Reference Center
· Look up these Topics: water pollution/shortage, chemistry, air,
· Or go to MAS: Magazine Article summary and find The Economist and search for science articles.
· You should Create an account to save your articles
· Also Email the article to yourself and to jforman@buckley.org
Examples: The Hunk and the Showoff; Cat and Mouse; Fish and No Chips; Tiny Things; Vaccination Health Scares; Artificial Life Created;
Required: 1 paragraph summary, due every Friday BEFORE class starts, in class open your blog and (if possible) the database website or article, and briefly explain it to class (also, ALWAYS explain why it matters to us!)
#5) HW due Monday June 25 (two hours)
- Finish answering on blog A.7 #1-7*1-2-3-4-5-6-7 p.20-21
- Read/annotate B.6-B.7 p.34-37*8-9
- Answer on blog ISBS #13-18 p.50-52 [SKETCH DRAWINGS ON PAPER]
- QZ: Interpret historgrams and what they tell us. (p.20) Memorize symbols for elements.
- QZ terms: chemical symbols, periodic table of the elements (p.34) know and understand it, subscript, chemical equations, chemical reactions, reactants, products, balanced equations (p.35), diatomic molecules atom inventory, balance burning of methane (be able to balance equations), distinguish compound from element (p.36), two pieces of info chemical formula provides (p.51)
- NO additional blog question
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