Project: Unit 1

Project: Unit 1 - Spectroscopy and Flame Test

Chapter 3:1-3 Atoms (and Moles)

    • 2 weeks

    • Lab: Flame Tests

Chapter 18:1-3 Nuclear Chemistry

    • 2 weeks

    • Lab: Radioactivity

Chapter 4: The Periodic Table

    • 2 weeks

    • Lab: Mendeleev's Lab of 1868

Chapter 11:1-4 States of Matter

    • 1 week

    • Lab: Ice Cream and Freezing Point Depression

What are you to do?

    • Turn to page 776 in your text books and read "the letter" from Jered MacLaren.

    • Then read page 777 which is a "letter" to your lab group.

    • Follow the procedures described for the preliminary report.

    • Follow the procedures described for the two-page letter to MacLaren. Include the three listed items in the two page letter. Submit the letter to your instructor, but address the letter to Jared MacLaren

Time Table

    • Begining first week of Ch. 18 - Lab groups will submit to the instructor a detailed one-page plan/procedure for doing this project (See p. 777 for a list of what to include in your paper.)

    • Beginning second week of Ch. 18 - Procedure paper returned for revisions. Groups work on revsions.

    • End of second week of Ch. 18 - Final draft of procedure paper submitted to instructor.

    • During of first week of Ch. 4 - Lab groups collect data.

    • End of second week of Ch 4 - Lab groups submit first draft of two-page report. (See p. 777 for a list of what to include in your paper.)

    • End of 1st week of Ch 11 - Lab groups submit final draft of two-page report.