Friday, April 25, 2014

5/1/14

Date: 5/1/14
Class: Chemistry
Periods: B1

Outcomes: Students will explain why atoms behave the way they do and how water is used to detect neutrinos.

Standards: 9-12.3.3

Student Needs: 

Assessment Plan: Ticket to Leave: 3 things you learned.


Lesson Outline: Bellringer > If a C is double bonded to an O, how many F's are needed to make it happy? How many covalent bonds will Cl form? > Tell me about alkanes. > Watch The Cosmos episode about the atomic scale and smaller > Ticket-to-Leave: Write 3 things you learned from the episode. 

Electrochem Lab

Date: 4/29/14
Class: Chemistry
Periods: B1

Outcomes: Students will determine the voltage difference between lemons and potatoes and see what happens when the two cells are connected.

Standards: 9-12.P.3.3

Student Needs: 

Assessment Plan: Lab Report

Lesson Outline: Bellringer > How many covalent bonds will carbon form? If 2 carbons are singly bonded together, how many H's are needed to make the C's happy? > Tell me about hydrocarbons. > Correct Quiz > Lemon/Potato Lab > HW: Read 21.2 pgs 750-758 What are the rules for naming straight chain, branching and cyclo-alkanes? What are some properties of alkanes?

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Electrochemistry 4

Date: 4/25/14
Class: Chemistry
Periods: B1

Outcomes: Students will be able to describe the processes of Electrolysis and Electroplating.

Standards: 9-12.P.1.3

Student Needs: 

Assessment Plan: Quickwrite on commercial uses of electroplating

Lesson Outline: Bellringer > How many covalent bonds will phosphorus typically form? How many Hydrogens are needed to make it happy? > Electrochemical practice > Notes over 20.3 > Electroplating Quick-write > Acid/Base practice > HW: Quiz Next Time

Electrochemistry 3

Date: 4/23/14
Class: Chemistry
Periods: B1

Outcomes: Students will be able to explain electrolysis and electroplating.

Standards: 9-12.P.1.3

Student Needs: Organization

Assessment Plan: 20.3 Assessment questions pg. 732 (22-27)

Lesson Outline: Bellringer > What is an endothermic reaction? What makes something an acid? A base? > According to the table on pg. 712 what has the higher electric potential: gold or silver? > Electrochemical cell lab > Have students write their results on a table on the whiteboard > Discuss the differences in electric potentials > HW: 20.3 Assessment questions pg. 732 (22-27)

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Electrochemistry 2

Date: 4/17/14
Class: Chemistry
Periods: B1

Outcomes: Students will be able to explain how batteries and hydrogen fuel cells work.

Standards: 9-12.P.1.3

Student Needs: Organization

Assessment Plan: Worksheet on electrochemical cells.

Lesson Outline: Bellringer > How many outer-shell e- does Zinc have? How many shells? If Zinc and Oxygen form ions and ionic bond together how many of each will be needed? > What is entropy? Tell me about voltaic cells. > Notes over 20.1 and 20.2 > Electrochemical Worksheet > Hydrogen Fuel Cell quick write > HW: Read 20.3 pgs. 728-732 What are some commercially valuable products of electrolysis?

Monday, April 14, 2014

Electrochemistry 1

Date: 4/15/14
Class: Chemistry
Periods: B1

Outcomes: Students will be able to describe how an electrochemical cell works.

Standards: 9-12.P.1.3

Student Needs: Writing Time

Assessment Plan: Paper on electrochemical cells and how to find electrochemical potential

Lesson Outline: Bellringer > What charge will Magnesium form? Fluorine? Ionic formula for Potassium oxide? > Brief explanation of oxidation-reduction (LEO goes GER) > Assign paper on voltaic cells. Parts to include are who invented it, how and what did he use when he created it, how it works, how do we find electrochemical potential and what is the base we use to determine it. > Have students share what they're finding > HW: finish paper

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Acids and Bases 2

Date: 4/11/14
Class: Chemistry
Periods: B1

Outcomes: Students will describe what buffers are and how they work.

Standards: 9-12.P.1.5

Student Needs: Writing time

Assessment Plan: Paper on how human blood maintains a pH of 7.4

Lesson Outline: Bellringer > How many electron shells does Bromine have? How many neutrons does Se-78 have? > What does pH tell us? How does titration work? > Notes over the rest of Ch. 18 > HW: Blood Paper 

Titration Lab

Date: 4/9/14
Class: Chemistry
Periods: B1

Outcomes: Students will use titration to determine the molarity of an unknown concentration of acid.

Standards: 9-12.P.1.5

Student Needs: 

Assessment Plan: Lab Report

Lesson Outline: Bellringer > What is an endothermic reaction? What kind of reaction is drawn on the board (single replacement)? > What is an acid? A base? > Acids and bases can cancel each other out to produce a salt and water (HCl and NaOH). Titration is a method of using that to help us determine the molarity of an unknown acid by adding a known concentration of base. > Titration Lab > Results Analysis as a group. > HW: Read 18.4 pgs. 660- 668 What makes something a good indicator?

Acids and Bases 1

Date: 4/7/14
Class: Chemistry
Periods: B1

Outcomes: Students will explain what makes something an acid or a base.

Standards: 9-12.P.1.5

Student Needs: Note organization

Assessment Plan: Ticket-to-Leave: identify the following as acids or bases

Lesson Outline: Bellringer > Draw a molecule of NH3, NH4+ > Tell me about what you read about in 18.1 > Notes over 18.1 > Khan Academy videos on Molarity and Equilibrium Constant > Read 18.2 in class > Ticket-to-Leave: identify the following as acids or bases > HW: Read 18.3 pgs 650-658 What are pH and pOH and how are they useful?

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

4/3/14

Date:
Class: Chemistry
Periods: B1

Outcomes: Students will describe the way scientific theories were accepted in the Middle Ages.

Standards: 9-12.N.1.1

Student Needs: 

Assessment Plan: Ticket-to-Leave: What are 3 things you learned about Halley and the comet named after him.


Lesson Outline: Bellringer > Draw a molecule of PH4 > Episode of the Cosmos that discusses the interactions between Hooke, Halley and Newton > Ticket-to-Leave: What are 3 things you learned about Halley and the comet named after him.