Sit wherever you would like today
Feb 1
No QD Today
Today’s Activities:
•STAR testing
•Chemistry vocab
Bring your textbook for the next 3 days
Homework:
None
Sit wherever you would like today
Feb 2
No QD Today
Today’s Activities:
•STAR testing
•Chemistry vocab
Bring your textbook for the next 3 days
Homework:
Finish vocab
Feb 3
No question of the day today
Today’s Activities:
•Intro Chemistry Notes
•States of Matter Worksheet
Bring your textbook tomorrow!!
Homework:
Finish worksheet
Feb 4
Question of the Day #1
Classify each of these as either a physical
change or a chemical change:
melting, burning, condensing, drying, breaking,
bending, making gas bubbles, change in color,
change in mass, forming a solid by mixing two
liquids, freezing, mixing sugar and water
Today’s Activities:
•Go over homework
•States of Matter Video
•Ch 22 book assignment
Homework:
Finish book
assignment
Feb 5
Question of the Day #2
Determine which state of matter(s) is described:
1) takes on the shape of its container
2) has the least amount of energy
3) the particles have lost electrons
4) the particles can slide past each other
5) the particles are fixed in place
6) the particles are intact but have a lot of speed and energy
Today’s Activities:
•Mixtures & Solutions Notes
•Video
•Lab safety
Homework:
None
Feb 9
Question of the Day #3
Classify these mixtures as heterogeneous or
homogeneous:
Today’s Activities:
•Mixtures & Solutions Lab
Homework:
None
Quiz on Feb 16
Feb 10
Question of the Day #4
What is an element and what is a compound?
Today’s Activities:
•Bingo
•Lab safety video
Homework:
None
Quiz on Tuesday
Feb 11
Question of the Day #5
Salt is made of one sodium atom and one chlorine atom
bonded together. 1. Is salt a pure substance? 2. Is salt an
element or a compound? 3. How can we separate salt and
water from each other after they have been mixed? 4. Is
salt the solute or the solvent?
Homework:
Finish lab,
Prepare for quiz
Today’s Activities:
•Salt Water Solution Lab
Quiz next class
Feb 16
No QD today
Today’s Activities:
•Quiz
•Periodic Table Notes
Homework:
-Finish practice
problems from
notes?
-Periodic Puns due
Friday
Bring your textbook tomorrow
Periodic Table Quiz on Feb 23
Feb 17
Question of the Day #6
One isotope of carbon has an atomic mass of 14.
Another has an atomic mass of 12. How many
protons, electrons and neutrons do these two isotopes
of carbon have?
Today’s Activities:
•Bill Nye Atoms
•Periodic Table Worksheet
Homework:
-Finish worksheet
-Periodic Puns due
Friday
Periodic Table Quiz on Feb 23
Bill Nye Atoms
• In your JOURNAL, write the title.
• Write down 10 important facts about atoms
• Find NEW information! Don’t write something you already
knew
No QD today
Feb 18
Today’s Activities:
•Element Project – computer lab (45min)
Homework:
•Tomorrow:
-Periodic Puns
•Element Project – computer lab (50min)
•Monday:
due tomorrow
•Periodic table lab
•Tuesday:
•Periodic Table quiz
•Element Project – computer lab (appx. 35min)
Periodic Table Quiz on Feb 23
Project Presentations on Thursday, Feb 25
Question of the Day #7
Feb 19
How many protons, electrons and neutrons does
mercury have? What group # and period # is mercury
in?
Today’s Activities:
•Element Project
•Monday:
•Periodic table lab
Homework:
•Tuesday:
-Projects due
•Periodic Table quiz
•Element Project – computer lab (appx. 35min)
Feb 25
Periodic Table Quiz on Feb 23
Project Presentations on Feb 25
Question of the Day #8
Feb 22
Which of these is a compound and which is an
element? How do you know?
Cu
vs.
CU
Today’s Activities:
•Periodic Table lab
•Quiz review
Homework:
-Finish quiz review
-Projects due Feb 25
-Quiz tomorrow!
Periodic Table Quiz tomorrow
Project Presentations on Thursday
Bring your book on Wednesday
Feb 23
Question of the Day #9
How many protons, electron and neutrons does
helium have?
Today’s Activities:
•Correct Quiz review
•Quiz
•Project time
Homework:
-Periodic Table lab due
tomorrow
-Projects due Thursday
Project Presentations on Thursday
Bring textbook tomorrow
Feb 24
No QD today
Today’s Activities:
•Turn in Periodic Table lab
•Bill Nye Chemical Reactions
•Chemical reaction vocab
Homework:
-Make sure project is
done and emailed or
on thumb drive
Project Presentations tomorrow!
Feb 25
No QD today
Today’s Activities:
•Project presentations
Homework:
-None
Project Presentations today!
Bring your textbook tomorrow
Feb 26
No QD today
Today’s Activities:
•Project presentations
•Chemical reaction vocab
Homework:
-Finish vocab
Project Presentations today!
Question of the Day #10
Mar 1
By this point you MUST be able to determine e-, p+
and n0 from the periodic table. So do this now for
Yttrium.
Homework:
Today’s Activities:
•Drawing atoms & valence e- -Finish Atom Drawings
notes
Worksheet
•Drawing atoms worksheet
Journal check on March 7
Bonding Quiz on March 8
March 2
Question of the Day #11
Draw a complete atom of gallium and a Lewis dot
diagram of gallium.
Homework:
Today’s Activities:
•Drawing atoms & valence -Finish Worksheet
e- worksheets
Journal check on March 7
Bonding Quiz on March 8
March 3
Question of the Day #12
Draw a Lewis dot diagram of Silicon. How many
hydrogens would need to bond with silicon to make a
stable compound? This is called silicon tetrahydride.
Try to draw the Lewis dot picture.
Today’s Activities:
•Turn in homework
•Introduce stick model
•Molecular model lab
Homework:
-Finish lab
Journal check on March 7
Bonding Quiz on March 8
Question of the Day #13
March 4
Draw a stick model of a compound that contains 2
hydrogens, 2 chlorines and 1 carbon. (Hint: think
about how many valence electrons each has and how
many bonds they can form)
Today’s Activities:
•Correct yesterday’s
homework
•Bonding Notes
•Bonding Video
•Worksheet
Homework:
-Finish worksheet
Journal check on Monday, Bring your book Monday
Bonding Quiz on Tuesday
March 7
Question of the Day #14
This is ethanol, the alcohol that is in drinking alcohol and added
to gasoline.
1. What is its chemical formula?
2. What type of bonds are these?
List two reasons you know.
Homework:
Today’s Activities:
-Finish worksheet
•Correct homework
•Quiz review
•Journal check
Bonding Quiz tomorrow
•Quiz review WS
Quiz Review
1. Does fluorine form an anion or cation?
2.Does calcium form an anion or cation?
3.Would sodium and potassium make an ionic compound?
Quiz Review
4. Would magnesium and chlorine make an ionic compound?
5. What kind of bond do oxygen and carbon make in
CO2?
6. What kind of bond do calcium and chlorine make
in CaCl2?
7. What kind of bond do copper and nickel make?
Quiz Review
8. Draw a complete atomic model of Zinc
Quiz Review
9. Make a Lewis dot diagram of these elements and state how many
bonds they want to make
Sulfur
Rubidium
March 8
No QD today
Homework:
Today’s Activities:
•Correct homework
-Finish worksheet – due
•Bonding Quiz
on Thursday
•Balancing Equations Notes
Tomorrow: Registration for next
•Balancing equations
school year
worksheet
March 9
No QD today
Today: Registration for next
school year
Homework:
-Finish worksheet – due
on Thursday
March 10
Question of the Day #15
Balance this chemical reaction:
___C6H12O6 + ___O2  ___CO2 + ___H2O
Today’s Activities:
Homework:
•Correct homework
•Chemical Reactions video -Finish Balancing
equations practice
•Balancing Equations
Chemistry test on March 22
Practice
Question of the Day #16
Balance this chemical reaction:
___CH4 + ___O2  ___CO2 + ___H2O
Today’s Activities:
•Turn in homework
•Combustion lab
March 14
Homework:
-Finish lab
Chemistry test on March 22
Question of the Day #16
Balance this chemical reaction:
___CH4 + ___O2  ___CO2 + ___H2O
Today’s Activities:
•Turn in homework
•Combustion lab
March 14
Homework:
-Finish lab
Chemistry test on March 22
Question of the Day #17
Balance this chemical reaction:
___NH3 + ___O2  ___N2O + ___H2O
Today’s Activities:
•Unknown lab part I
•Crossword
March 15
Homework:
-None
Chemistry test on March 22
Question of the Day #18
March 16
State whether the following pictures are likely showing a
chemical change or a physical change and state a reason
why.
4
1
2
3
5
Today’s Activities:
•Unknown lab part II
•Crossword
6
Homework:
-Finish crossword
Chemistry test on March 22
Question of the Day #18
March 17
What does the law of conservation of mass/matter
say?
Today’s Activities:
•Phet Reactants and Leftovers
Tomorrow:
•Finish Phet
•Start test review
Homework:
-None
Chemistry test on March 22
March 18
Question of the Day #20
Balance this chemical reaction:
___NO + ___O2  ___NO2
Today’s Activities:
•Finish Phet
•Start test review
Homework:
-Test Review p. 1-2
(first paper front and
back)
Chemistry test on March 22
March 21
Question of the Day #21
Using a periodic table, try to figure out the mass of a molecule of
CO2. Also, what are the masses of O2 and N2? (Hint: add the
atomic masses)
Today’s Activities:
•Correct p. 1-2
•Balloon demo
•Pass back papers
•Test review p.3-5
Homework:
-Prepare for test
Chemistry test tomorrow!
Journal Check on March 28
March 22
No QD today
Today’s Activities:
•5min study time/
questions
•Test
Homework:
-None
Journal Check on March 28
Registration on Thursday!
March 23
Question of the Day #22
What happens to the distance between particles and the
movement of the particles as we change states of matter from
solid to liquid to gas to plasma?
Today’s Activities:
•Thermal expansion lab
Homework:
-Finishlab
Journal Check on March 28
Registration tomorrow!
Thermal Expansion
March 25
Question of the Day #23
Based on the evidence in this picture, is the color of these leaves
the result of one pure substance or a mixture? Make an evidencebased claim with a claim, evidence and reasoning.
Today’s Activities:
•Chromatography lab
Homework:
-Finish lab
Journal Check on Monday