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Please Note:  Lesson plans/Homework are updated daily usually between 7:30-8:30PM based on the material we've accomplished in class -- therefore, dates for quizzes, tests and assignments may change.

 

March 2010

Honors Chemistry

 

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January  February

 

Date

Agenda

Homework

Mon.

3/1/10

--Hand in Flame Tests Lab if you haven't done so

--Warm-Up: Periodic Trends

--Go over Circle the Trends WS

--Do WS 1&2-Periodic Puzzles #1 & 2

--Demo: Ca, Na, K

--Lab: Family Trends: C, Si & Pb

--If you were absent, here's the completed Blank Periodic Table

 

--Circle the Trend-KEY

--Periodic Puzzle #1-KEY

Tue.

3/2/10

--Light, frequency, wavelength, energy

--Go over book questions

--Review for test tomorrow

   --Discuss Virtual Lab (computer activity)

   --Go over Family Trends Lab

   --Periodic Puzzles #3

   --Vocabulary crossword puzzle

--Lab: Which Elements Act Alike?

--Periodic Puzzle #1&2

--Periodic Puzzle #3

 

Go to Dr. Gever's Wiki to see:

--Vocabulary Practice: Ch 5

--Vocabulary Practice: Ch 6

ID: 602lastname; PW: (secret word)

If it doesn't work, send me an e-mail

--Waves-light-KEY

 

Wed.

3/3/10

--Test: Chapters 5 and 6

--We are working on chapters 7 and 8. On the geverwiki, read the vocabulary for chapter 7 and do the vocabulary review

Tests will be graded for Friday

Thurs.

3/4/10

--Introduction to Bonding: Using Lewis dot diagrams, show how sodium atoms and chlorine atoms combine to make sodium chloride salt. Do the same for calcium & chlorine; and for sodium & phosphorus; write formula for aluminum oxide

--Compare Metallic bonding vs ionic bonding vs. covalent bonding and properties of each

--WS 1 & 2: ionic substances

--Video: metals

--Chapters 7-8 Notes Part 1 (34 slides)

 

--Start looking for a 1982 Penny for Monday's lab

 

Do Vocabulary Review Ch 7 WS from the geverwiki -- due tomorrow -- will be graded

 

Fri.

3/5/10

--Warm-Up: Write the formulas for strontium bromide, sodium hydroxide, magnesium hydroxide, aluminum hydroxide, sodium phosphate

--Writing formulas with polyatomic ions

--Notes: Comparing bonding: metallic vs. ionic vs. covalent bonding & properties

--Conductivity Demo or Lab

Chapter 7: Ionic & Metallic Bonding

pp.  207-210: Prob #35,38,39,41-45,48, 62,63,67

 

--Bring in 2 pennies (before 1982 works best)

 

J  Weekend  J

 

Mon.

3/8/10

--Go over Ch 5-6 test

--Go over Ch 7 book questions

--Notes: Ch 7-8

--Penny lab: Striking it Rich

--No homework

Tue.

3/9/10

--Look at Composition of Alloys

--Continue notes --Ch 7-8 starting with Slide 19

--VSEPR Theory -- Lab

--Ch 7-8 Bonding Packet

Wed.

3/10/10

--Covalent Bonding Notes: Special bonding

   --Coordinate Covalent Bonds

   --Resonance

   --Exceptions to the Octet Rule

--Do WS #2,3,4; go over #2 & 3 on board

--Introduce the difference between:

--Polar vs. Nonpolar Bonds

--Polar vs. Nonpolar Molecules

--Go over VESPR bonding lab & fill in last column "polar vs. nonpolar molecule"

--Quiz on Friday

Thurs.

3/11/10

--Acids HCl, HF, etc. are polar covalent, not ionic

--Polyatomic ions -- structures

--"Like dissolves like"

--Intramolecular vs. Intermolecular forces:

notes

   --Van der Waals forces

      --dipole interactions

      --dispersion forces

   --Hydrogen bonds

--Bond dissociation energies

--Bonding WS -- Intermolecular forces

--Download both sets of notes for Chapter 9:

  --Formula Writing Notes

  --Nomenclature Notes

 

--Bring in lab shoes if you wear sandals to school!

Fri.

3/12/10

--Quiz: Focus on

  • Comparison: metallic bonding vs. ionic bonding vs. covalent bonding (properties, etc.)

  • Formulas and bonding for ionic compounds and covalent molecules (focus on molecules in bonding lab)

--WS 5 & 6 -- Bonding

--WS 7 & 8 -- Bonding

--Quia game -- Rags to Riches-Bonding (easy)

--Quiz game -- Rags to Riches- Intermolecular forces (more challenging)

 

 

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Mon.

3/15/10

--Intro to Formula Writing and Naming Compounds (notes)

--WS-Naming Molecular Compounds

--Activity: Ionic Chemical Formulas & Names

--Bring in lab shoes if you wear sandals to school!

Tue.

3/16/10

--Go over Ch 7-8 quiz

--Review for tomorrow's test

--Finish Activity: Ionic Chemicals Formulas & Names, and go over answers

--Happy Face Lab

--WS-Formula Writing-Criss-Cross Method

 

Wed.

3/17/10

--Test: Chapters 7 & 8

 

Thurs.

3/18/10

 

 

Fri.

3/19/10

 

 

 

J  Weekend  J

 

Mon.

3/22/10

 

 

Tue.

3/23/10

 

 

Wed.

3/24/10

 

 

Thurs.

3/25/10

 

 

Fri.

3/26/10

 

 

 

J  Weekend  J

 

Mon.

3/29/10

 

 

Tue.

3/30/10

 

 

Wed.

3/31/10