Last Lesson Plans!

Lesson Plans for the Last two weeks of school!!! May 19^th – June 2^nd

Chemistry I

Monday: 

1.  go over quiz

2.  double replacement lab

3.  turn in balancing review

4.  chapter 8 test on Thursday

5.  Final Review pages 1-4 due tomorrow

6.  Pages 5-8 due Friday

7.  Pages 9-12 due Tuesday

Tuesday:

1.  grade balancing review

2.  gummy bear on fire demo – due Friday

3.  final review pages 1-4 due

4.  do the final review lab equipment

5.  posters due Tuesday at the latest

Weds:

1.  grade 1-4 review

2.  turn in 8.3

3.  test tomorrow

Thursday:  ch 8 balancing test

Friday:  grade 5-8 final review, 3^rd hour smarty pants party

Monday May 30^th :  No School

Tuesday:  grade 9-12 review

Weds: Finals 1-3 hours

Thursday: Finals 4-6 hours

Friday:  No School

Monday June 2^nd:  finals 7 and 8

Adv Chemistry II

Monday: 

1.  finish hydrocarbon notes

2.  buckyball video and worksheet

3.  hydrocarbon review due Thursday for Seniors

Tuesday:  model kit lab

Weds:

1.  quizzes back

2.  grade PP III and Worksheet III

3.  rings and things worksheet due Friday

Thursday:  7^th hour smarty pants party

Friday:

1.  grade alkenes and alkynes worksheets

2.  finish model kit

3.  grade first part of final review

Monday May 30^th :  No School

Tuesday:  grade last part of final review

Weds: Finals 1-3 hours

Thursday: Finals 4-6 hours

Friday:  No School

Monday June 2^nd:  finals 7 and 8

AP Chemistry

Monday:  develop photochemical t-shirts front side

Tuesday:  develop photochemical t-shirts back side

Weds:  pictures at the fountain, finish shirts if needed

Thursday:  turn in books and prepare lab drawers for next year

Lesson Plans May 12th - May 16th

Chemistry I Lesson Plans May 12^th – May 16^th

Monday: 

1.  KI lab

2.  worksheet I due

3.  worksheet II due tomorrow

4.  quiz back

Tuesday:

1.  finish lab if needed

2.  grade worksheet I

3.  worksheet II due – questions?

4.  balancing review due Friday

Wednesday:

1.  grade worksheet II

2.  quiz II

3.  pick up review for final exam

4.  pages 1-4 due Tuesday

5.  pages 5-8 due next Friday

6.  pages 9-12 due Tuesday the 27^th

Thursday:

1.  quiz II back

2.  grade worksheet II if needed

3.  gummy bear on fire demo

Friday:

1.  quiz over types of reactions

2.  balancing review due

3.  8.3 worksheet due Weds

AP Lesson Plans May 12^th – May 16^th

Monday:  prep t-shirts if sunny or organic notes part I

Tuesday:  prep t-shirts if sunny or organic chemistry notes part II

Wednesday:  prep t-shirts if sunny or Ester Lab – due Friday

Thursday:  prep t-shirts if sunny or Ester Lab

Friday: organic worksheet I – due Monday and Ester Lab – due Friday

Adv Chemistry Lesson Plans May 12^th – May 16^th

Monday:

1.  grade worksheet 2

2.  slime lab due Weds

Tuesday:

1.  grade hydrocarbon review

2.  even more alkanes due Thursday

3.  PPIII worksheet due Thursday

Weds:  super ball lab

Thursday:

1.  notes

2.  alkenes/alkynes/again worksheets due Monday

Friday:

1.  alkane quiz

2.  alkene/alkyne worksheets (2) due

3.  even more alkanes due

4.  PPIII due

5.  worksheet III due Monday

6.  hydrocarbon review #1 due Tuesday

One of the largest atomic nuclei known could lead to the discovery of elements that do not immediately decay...

The linear accelerator at the GSI laboratory in Germany accelerated calcium ions to 10 percent the speed of light to create element 117.

Physicists have created one of the heaviest elements yet, an atom with 117 protons in its nucleus. This jumbo-sized atom sits on the outer reaches of the periodic table where bloated nuclei tend to become less and less stable. Element 117’s existence gives scientists hope, however, that they are getting closer to discovering a rumored “island of stability” where nuclei with so-called magic numbers of protons and neutrons become long-lived.

Elements heavier than uranium (with 92 protons) are not usually found in nature, but they can be forced into existence in laboratories. The trouble is: the larger an atomic nucleus gets, the more its protons repel one another with their positive charges, making it, in general, less stable, or more radioactive. Element 117, for example, has a half-life of about 50 thousandths of a second, meaning that within that time about half of it will decay into a lighter element.

A U.S.–Russian team first created element 117 in 2010 at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. The element is still considered unofficial, and has not yet been formally accepted and added to the periodic table by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). The new appearance of 117, in experiments by the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, should help the element gain official recognition. “In contrast to the first discovery, we are a different team at a different place using a different device,” says Christoph Düllmann, who led the GSI collaboration. “I think within the scientific community that will change the view on element 117 from an element that has been claimed to be observed to an element that is confirmed.”

To create 117, with the temporary periodic table placeholder name ununseptium, the researchers smashed calcium nuclei (with 20 protons apiece) into a target of berkelium (97 protons per atom). The experiment was so difficult in part because berkelium itself is tough to come by. “We had to team up with the only place on the planet where berkelium can be produced and isolated in significant quantities,” Düllmann says. That place is the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, which has a nuclear reactor that can create the rare element with a half-life of 330 days. It took the facility about two years to build up a large enough stock of berkelium for the experiment; when about 13 milligrams had accumulated, Oak Ridge scientists shipped it off to Germany for the next stage of the project. At GSI, researchers accelerated calcium ions to 10 percent light-speed and sent them colliding into the berkelium. If a calcium and berkelium nucleus collided head-on, occasionally the two nuclei would stick together, fusing to form a new element with a combined total of 117 protons. “We get about one atom per week,” Düllmann says.

The scientists did not observe element 117 directly. Instead, they searched for its daughter products after it radioactively decayed by emitting alpha particles—helium nuclei with two protons and two neutrons. “The heavy nuclei makes an alpha decay to produce element 115, and this also decays by alpha decay,” says Jadambaa Khuyagbaatar of GSI, lead author of a paper reporting the results published May 1 inPhysical Review Letters.

After a few more steps in this decay chain, one of the nuclei produced is the isotope lawrencium 266—a nucleus with 103 protons and 163 neutrons that had never been seen before. Previously known isotopes of lawrencium have fewer neutrons, and are less stable. This novel species, however, has an astonishingly long half-life of 11 hours, making it one of the longest-lived superheavy isotopes known to date. “Perhaps we are at the shore of the island of stability,” Düllmann says.

No one knows for sure where this island lies, or even if it exists at all. Theory suggests that the next magic numbers beyond those known are around 108, 110 or 114 protons, and 184 neutrons. These configurations, according to calculations, could lead to special properties that allow atoms to survive much longer than similar species. “All existing data for elements 116, 117 and 118 do confirm that lifetimes increase as one goes closer to the neutron number 184, says theorist Witold Nazarewicz of Oak Ridge, who was not involved in the study. “This is encouraging.”

Superheavy magic nuclei may turn out to have interesting shapes that confer stability, such as a so-called bubble configuration with a hole in the middle. “These have never been discovered yet, but the region that is being explored now is really on the edge of bubble territory,” Nazarewicz says.

If an island of stability does exist, there is no limit to how long its nuclei may last. They could turn out to be stable enough to be found in nature, albeit in such small quantities that we have not seen them yet. Numerous searches are on for evidence of these superheavy species already in existence, perhaps having formed through powerful cosmic events such as the merging of two neutron stars. Although none have been found so far, scientists are holding out hope that evidence for the island of stability is just around the corner, one way or another.

May 7, 2014 |By Clara Moskowitz

Lesson Plans May 5th - May 9th

Lesson Plans Adv Chemistry May 5^th - 9^th

Monday:

1.  Continue notes on naming organic compounds thru isomers

2.  Finish Additional Probs II for tomorrow

3.  Worksheet II for Weds

Tuesday:

1.       Practice Quiz

2.       Quizzes over alkanes on Weds and Thurs

3.       Grade Additional Problems II

4.       Worksheet II due tomorrow

5.       Notes on alkenes and alkynes

6.       Alkenes and alkynes, alkenes and alkynes again due Thursday

Weds:

1.       Quiz I – alkanes

2.       Intermolecular Forces Lab

3.       Model Kit Lab I

Thursday:

1.       Quiz II – alkanes

2.       Grade Worksheet II

3.       Alkene/Alkynes due

4.       Quiz tomorrow over alkenes and alkynes

5.       Continue Labs

Friday:

1.       Grade alkenes/alkynes

2.       Quiz over them

3.       Complete Labs

Lesson Plans Chemistry May 5^th - 9^th

Monday:

1.  Single Replacement Lab

2.  Balancing III and IV due

Tuesday:

1.  works bomb demo 8^th hour

2.  grade balancing II

3.  quiz I over balancing

Weds:

1.  go over quiz I

2.  continue notes over identifying reactions

3.  balancing III graded tomorrow

4.  id worksheet #1due Friday

Thursday:

1.  grade balancing III

2.  continue notes over identifying reactions

3.  id worksheet #2due Monday

Friday:

1.  grade balancing IV

2.  continue notes over identifying reactions

Lesson Plans AP Chemistry May 5^th - 9^th

Monday:  AP Test

Tuesday:  t-shirt design

Weds:  chemical preparation day

Thursday:  start organic notes over ethers and alcohols

Friday:  organic notes over carboxylic acids and esters

Lesson Plans April 28- May 2nd

Chemistry I Lesson Plans April 28^th – May 2^nd

Monday:

1.  Notes over balancing equations

2.  Finish ch 6 test

3.  Balancing I and II due Weds

Tuesday:

1.      Continue notes over balancing and types of  reactions

2.      Balancing I and II due tomorrow

3.      Balancing III and IV due Friday

Weds:

1.  Notes through single replacement reactions

2.  Balancing I and II due

3.  Balancing III and IV due Friday

Thurs:

1.  Thermite Demo

2.  Continue notes over types of reactions

Friday:

1.  Works Bomb Demo

2.  Worksheets III and IV due

3.  Quiz Tuesday over balancing equations

4.  Single Replacement Pre-Lab for Monday’s Lab

Lesson Plans Adv Chemistry April 28^th - May 9th

Students will be able to recognize, name, and draw alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes and understand how the structure affects the molecular properties of the molecules and their uses.

Monday:   Acid/Base Test

Tuesday:

1.      Notes on organic chemistry and hydrocarbon alkanes

2.      Practice Probs I and WI on alkanes due Thursday

Weds:

1.      Continue notes on alkanes – naming them

2.      PPI and WI due tomorrow

3.      Quiz on 10 alkanes Friday

Thurs:   

1.  Grade PPI and WI

2.  Notes on naming and reconstructing alkanes

3.  Additional Probs II #2 only for Monday

Friday:

1.  Quiz on 10 alkanes

2.  Continue notes on naming and drawing hydrobarbons

3.  Additional Probs II finish for Tuesday

Lesson Plans AP Chemistry April 28^th - May 9th

Students will prepare for the AP Test which is Monday.

Monday:   finish acid/base review

Tuesday:  experimental chemistry review

Weds:  Practice Diagnostic test I and grade in class

Thurs:  Practice Diagnostic test II and grade in class

Friday:  Review crib notes for test on Monday

Lesson Plans 22nd - 25th

Lesson Plans April 22^nd - 25^th

Chemistry I:  This week students will be able to review information from the unit in preparation for the unit test.   It is a crazy week with Juniors taking the ACT and PSAE test.

Monday:  no school

Tuesday:

1.  WebMO I due

2.  grade 60 point review sheet on bonding

3.  90 point review due also

Wednesday and Thursday:  ACT for Juniors

1.  Finish WebMO II

2.  Lewis quiz if absent last week

3.  Make sure your 90 point review is with Mrs. Block so she can grade it

Friday: 

1.  look over 90 point review sheet

2.  Chemical Bonding Exam

Chemistry II:  This week students will be able to review information from the unit in preparation for the unit test.   It is a crazy week with Juniors taking the ACT and PSAE test.

Monday:  no school

Tuesday:

1.  Ka quiz and homework back

2.  grade acid base review

3.  test on Friday

Wednesday and Thursday:  ACT for Juniors

Friday:  Acid Base Exam

AP Chemistry:

Students are finishing reviews in preparation for the AP test which will be May 5^th.

Monday:  no school

Tuesday:

1.  practice tests are due – graded

2.  thermochemistry review

3.  outline thermochemistry chapter and take practice test on that chapter due Friday

Weds:  Diagnostic test #2 – take and score and turn in

Thursday:  Diagnostic test #3 – take and score and turn in

Friday:  film “the Pack Attack” commercial

1.  thermochemistry outline and practice test due

2.  acid/base review

3.  outline acid base chapter and take practice test on that chapter due Friday

Lesson Plans April 7th - 11th

Chemistry I Lesson Plans April 7-11^th

This week we are continuing our study of molecular geometry and using student created Lewis structures and those created in the computational chemistry program WebMO to analyze properties of these molecules.  Students will be able to predict geometry types based on both the VSEPR and Hybridization Theories as well as visualize the electron pair domains, geometries, and hybridizations of many different molecules.  Students will be preparing for their ch 6 test which will be sometime after Spring Break.

Monday:

1.  Lewis III worksheet due

2.  finish WebMO – due Thursday

3.  pick up naming review for test – due Wednesday

4.  Lewis II quiz on Wednesday

Tuesday:  sophomores gone

1.  finish WebMO I if needed

2.  start WebMO II

3.  finish naming review for test due tomorrow

4.  Lewis II quiz tomorrow

Weds:

1.  Lewis II quiz

2.  finish notes on unit

3.  naming review due tomorrow for test

4.  test Friday after break

Thursday:

1.  grade naming review

2.  finish WebMO activities

Friday:

1.  grade Lewis III worksheet

2.  Juniors - work on unit review – due Thursday after break

3.  Test Friday after break

Adv Chemistry  Lesson Plans April 7-11^th

Students will understand how to calculate pH of a weak acid with the help of an ICE table.  We will be taking the chapter test after break so the acid/base review needs to be completed.

Monday:

1.  ICE table notes

2.  titration review due

3.  Acid/base review due Thursday

Tuesday: 

1.  grade titration review

2.  ICE Table notes

3.   Ka problems due Friday

Weds:

1.  finish ICE notes

2.  work on Ka problems

3.  quiz I Friday over Ka

Thursday:

1.  grade review sheet

2.  Ka worksheet and quiz due tomorrow

Friday:

1.  grade Ka worksheet

2.  Ka quiz 1

3.  Ka quiz 2 Tuesday after break

4.  Test on Friday after break

AP Chemistry  Lesson Plans April 7-11^th

Students will understand how to find the rate law expression given the rate constant in both an elementary and multiple step reaction. 

Monday:

1.  finish notes on elementary rate law problems

2.  begin working on ch 11 outline homework – due Friday

Tuesday:

1.  discuss the rate determining step in kinetics

2.  begin homework Kinetics worksheet I – due Thursday

3.  ch 11 outline homework due Friday

4.  rates of reaction lab due Friday

Weds:

1.  finish rates of reaction lab – due Friday

2.  continue working on chapter homework

Thursday: 

1.  grade kinetics worksheet I

2.  finish ch homework for tomorrow

Friday:  AP practice test