Lesson Plans for Jan 26-30

1/26 – 1/30 Chemistry I Lesson Plans

Monday:

1.  grade 4.1 review worksheet

2.  continue laser lab

3.  4.2 sets I and II over electron and orbital notations

Tuesday:

1.      Discuss electron dot notation

2.      Finish  Laser Lab Data and enter into EXCEL

3.      Flame Test Lab Reports due.

4.      Notations 1 due Friday.

Wednesday:

1.      Continue notes over POMS

2.      go over laser lab data and how to graph

3.      QUIZ over notations Friday.

4.      notations 1 due Friday

5.      notations 2 due Monday

Thurs:

1.       work on laser lab excel documents and also lab reports

2.      finish notations 1 for tomorrow

3.      finish notations 2 for Monday

4.      hand out review sheet over 4.2 due Tuesday

Friday:

1.      grade notations 1

2.      Notations  Quiz

3.      finish notes on POMS

4.      review sheet over 4.2 due Tuesday

5.      4.2/4.3 worksheet due Weds

1/26 – 1/30 Adv. Chemistry Lesson Plans

Monday:

1.  grade naming acids and ions worksheet - quiz later this week

2. Titration Virtual Labs due

3.  titration I worksheet due Weds

4.  finish volumetric pipeting and titration pre-lab

Tuesday:  titration lab

Weds: 

1.  titration 1 worksheet due

2.  titration lab- finish

3.  naming acids/pH worksheet due Friday

Thurs:

1.  pop quiz over acids and bases properties

2.  naming acids/pH worksheet  due Friday

3.  naming acids review  due Monday

4.  naming bases review due Monday

5.  quiz tomorrow over acids and bases

Friday: 

1.  quiz over naming acids and the strong acids and bases

2.  finish titration lab if needed

3.  grade naming acids/pH worksheet

4.  notes on titration curves

1/26 – 1/30 AP Chemistry Lesson Plans

Monday:

1.  go over WYSE #7-12

2.  galvanic cells examples

3.  90 point worksheet due Thursday

4.  redox labs due

Tuesday:

1.  Nernst lecture

2.  Nernst problems due Friday

Weds:

1.  WYSE 13-17 due Monday

2.  Continue Nernst notes

3.  Free energy Notes

Thursday:

1.  partner free response over galvanic cells

2.  partner free response over redox I

3.  90 pointer due

4.  finish WYSE 13-17 for Monday

5.  finish old WYSE tests

Friday:

1.  grade 90 pointer

2.  go over free responses

3.  WYSE questions?

4.  school board meeting next Monday

5.  WYSE test next Friday!!

Lesson Plans for January 20th through 24th

Chemistry I Lesson Plans for Jan 20th- 24th

Tuesday:

1.  grade planck’s problems

2.  planck’s probs quiz

3.  pick up review for 4.1 due Friday

4.  finish lab if needed

5.  lab reports due Monday the 27th, with turnitin due Wedsthe 29^th

6.  slide on plasma and grape in microwave clip to make plasma

Wednesday:   

1.  notes on Aufbau and the hotel analogy of the atom

2.  video clips on lasers

Thursday:

1.  Continue notes on electron configuration notation

2.  work problems together

Friday:

1.  grade 4.1 review

2.  continue notes on short-hand and orbital notations

Adv. Chemistry Lesson Plans for Jan 20th- 24th

Tuesday:

1.       Go over quizzes

2.       Naming ions worksheet due Weds

3.       Notes on oxyacids and titrations

4.       Naming Acids review due Thursday

5.       Acid/base lab – Lab report due Wednesday with turnitin.com due Friday midnight

6.       Quiz tomorrow over strong acid and strong bases

Wednesday:

1.       Quiz  over strong acid and strong bases

2.       Grade naming ions worksheet

3.       Continue notes

4.       Virtual Titration Pre-Lab

Thursday: 

1.        Grade naming acids review

2.       Naming bases due Monday

3.       Virtual Titration due Monday

Friday:

1.        Finish virtual titration lab due Monday

2.       Acid/base titration probs due Tuesday

AP Chemistry Lesson Plans for Jan 20th- 24th

Tuesday:

1.  go over WYSE problems

2.  WYSE tests due

3.  electrochemistry III due

4.  go over hydrogen peroxide labs

Weds:

1.  notes on electrochemistry on cells

2.  WYSE probs 7-13

Thursday:

1.  notes on electrochemistry continued

2.  WYSE probs 7-13 finish for Friday

Friday:

1.  go over WYSE problems

2.  notes on electrochemistry

3.  voltage half reaction homework due Tuesday

LESSON PLANS Jan 5th - 9th

Chemistry I Lesson Plans for Jan 5th- 9th

Monday:

1.  finals back

2.  review of ch 5 notes

3.  look at new lab partners

Tuesday:

1.  ch 4 notes

2.  Speed of light problems due Friday

3.  choose new lab partners

Weds:

1.  continue ch 4 notes

2.  planck problems due Monday

3.  lab drawers restocked

4.  spectrum tube demo - start

Thursday:

1.  speed of light probs due Friday

2.  quiz over it Friday

3.  planck’s probs due Monday

4.  spectrum tube demo - continue

Friday:

1.  grade speed of light problems

2.  speed of light problems quiz

3.  Flame Test pre-Lab

4.  finish spectrum tube demo if needed

Adv. Chemistry Lesson Plans for Jan 5th-9th

Monday: 

1.  go over final

2.  What it is Labs due

3.  turnitin due Weds

4.  Acid/Base Pre-Lab

5.  pH paper due Weds

6.  continue notes

7.  H+/OH- worksheet due Thursday

Tuesday:

1.  pH paper due tomorrow

2.  notes over Lewis acids and bases

3.  quiz tomorrow over pH and calculations

Weds: 

1.  grade pH paper

2.  pH quiz

3.  H+/OH- worksheet due Friday

4.  MOM demo

Thursday:

1.       Continue notes on acids/bases

2.        H+/OH- worksheet due tomorrow

3.       Continue notes

4.       pH paper due Wednesday

Friday:

1.       Grade H+/OH-

2.       Acid/base lab – Lab report due Wednesday with turnitin.com due Friday midnight

AP Chemistry Lesson Plans for Jan 5th - 9th

Monday:

1.  finish redox notes

2.  examples for acidic and basic ion electron method

3.  electrochemistry I and II overdue!

4.  electrochemistry III due next Friday

5.  WYSE practice tests due Friday

Tuesday:

1.  go over visit demos

2.  instant foam and magic genie labs

3.  redox lab

4.  visit on Thursday morning to 1st graders at Crestwood from 8 - 9 am

Weds:

1.  go over demos for visit

2.  redox methylene blue lab -first

Thursday:  Chem Club visit from 8-9 with 1st graders at Crestwood

Friday:

1.  oxidation-reduction lab - finish if needed

2.  WYSE due Monday!

chemistry club visits!!!

Alejandro Torres helps students identify their fingerprints. 

Kristian, Alejandro, Paige, and Kennedy prepare a physical and chemical properties lesson....

Students work on identifying elements using flame tests.

Payton prepares the students for their handprint reactions....

Kara shows them how to prepare their handprints....

Kaitlin prepares a chemical reaction for the kids....

Higgs Boson discovered! June 2014 article

extreme tech article
Two years after CERN announced that it had discovered a particle that was probably a Higgs boson particle, the folks at the Large Hadron Collider have now confirmed that the newly discovered particle is definitely theHiggs boson as predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. On the one hand, this is obviously a huge win for science — but on the other, there will be many scientists who are disappointed that, yet again, the Standard Model has held up to another round of immense scrutiny. If you were hoping for the Higgs boson to be the weird particle that led us towards the weird and wonderful nether regions of science beyond the Standard Model — supersymmetry, dark matter, dark energy — then sadly this is not the particle you were looking for.

This new study, published in Nature Physics, is confirmation from the LHC’s CMS experiment that the particle observed in 2012 decays into fermions. Previously we had only confirmed that this particle decayed into bosons. Bosons are force-carrying particles (like photons and electrons), while fermions are mass-carrying particles (like protons and neutrons). The Standard Model predicted that the Higgs boson is the particle that actually gives fermions their mass — and now, by smashing protons together at the LHC, the CMS detector has finally confirmed that Higgs bosons decay into fermions (bottom quarks and tau leptons). [doi:10.1038/nphys3005 - "Evidence for the direct decay of the 125 GeV Higgs boson to fermions"]

Following this study, we now have confirmation that this is the Higgs boson as predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. It sits in the mass-energy region of 125 GeV, has no spin, and it can decay into a variety of lighter particles (pairs of photons, fermions, etc.) This means that we can say with some certainty that the Higgs boson is the particle that gives mass to… well, everything.  “Our findings confirm the presence of the Standard Model Boson,” says Marcus Klute of the CMS Collaboration. “Establishing a property of the Standard Model is big news itself.”

There are two key takeaways here. First, it’s hard not to be slightly disappointed that the Higgs boson is behaving exactly as expected. If its decay path had been slightly different — if it coupled with fermions slightly differently — then whole new avenues of research would’ve opened up. This confirmation from CERN’s CMS detector, though, reaffirms that — yet again — the Standard Model stands up. On the flip side, it means we’re no closer to pushing beyond the Standard Model. The Standard Model doesn’t account for gravity, dark energy and dark matter, and some other quirks of reality.

While we can only really guess at what causes these quirks, one of the most popular theories is supersymmetry. Supersymmetry postulates that every Standard Model particle also has a superpartner (called a sparticle, believe it or not) that is incredibly heavy (thus accounting for the 23% of the universe that is apparently made up of dark matter). It is hoped that when the LHC turns back on in 2015, after upgrades that will almost double its collision energy to 13 TeV, that it will have energy to discover these sparticles. If that doesn’t work, supersymmetry will probably have to wait for LHC’s 60-mile-long successor, which is already being planned.

Lesson Plans for December 8th - 12th

Lesson Plans for Chemistry I for December 8th – 12th

Monday: 

1.       Atomic Quest Back

2.       Conversion factor unit notes

3.       Worksheets 1 and 2 due on Tuesday

Tuesday:

1.       Worksheets 1 and 2 grade

2.       Worksheets 3 and 4 due Weds

Wednesday:

1.       Grade 3 and 4

2.       Pop quiz

3.       Worksheets 5 and 6 due tomorrow

4.       Test on Friday

Thursday:

1.        Quiz back

2.       Grade 5 and 6

3.       5 and 6 due tomorrow

4.       Test tomorrow over conversion factors

Friday:  Conversion factor test

Adv. Chemistry Lesson Plans for Dec 8th – 12th

Monday: 

1.  final review - pages 1-3 due Monday, pages 4-7 due Tuesday

2.  Acid/Base Pre-Lab

Tuesday:

1.  Acid/Base notes

2.  Acid/base lab – Lab report due Thursday with turnitin.com Friday midnight

3.  H+/OH- worksheet due Tuesday

Weds: 

1.        Finish acid/base lab

2.       Work on lab questions, data, and H+/OH- worksheet

Thursday:

1.       Continue notes on acids/bases

2.       pH paper due Wednesday

3.       Grade H+/OH- worksheet

4.       Acid/Base Lab due Thursday with turnitin due Friday midnight

5.       Continue notes

6.       pH paper due Wednesday

Friday:

1.       Grade pH paper

2.       Continue notes

3.       Bases review due Tuesday

4.       review pages 1-3 due Monday

5.       review pages 4-7 due Tuesday

AP Chemistry Lesson Plans for Dec 8th – 12th

Monday:

1.  go over redox 11-20

2.  redox ornament lab due Thursday

Tuesday:

1.  Cliff’s PT quiz with free response

2.  Grade PT worksheets

3.  Ch 4 part II homework due Thursday

Weds:

1.  go over Chem Club labs and demos for this week

2.  notes on part II of redox

 

Thursday:

1.  ready for chem club visit 6th hour tomorrow

2.  redox pop quiz I

3.  holiday ornament redox lab due

Friday:

1.  oxidation-reduction lab

2.  Monday meet at Carolyn Wenz

videos to watch for the journal assignment CHEMISTRY I

Large Hadron Collider

go into the LHC

neutrinos

Higgs Boson

what happens if you put your hand in the LHC beam?

JOURNAL TOPIC:

Write 5 complete sentences regarding the three videos watched in class on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Higgs Boson and Higgs Field, and the neutrino OR Google and write about them or the following:

OPERA experiment = Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Types of quarks, subatomic particles, beson, muons, gluon, etc…

Do not write:  "The Large Hadron Collider is neat." or something lame like that.  You will receive no points for that sentence....  Do not plagiarize.