Monday, 3.13.23

1. Mindful Minute

2. Turn in 10.3 Titration Lab

3. Take quick survey about review session times (link to survey)

4. Sign AP Terms and Conditions (link to signature page)

5. Notes: Weak Acids and Bases (link to notes)

6. HW: 11.1 Weak Acids and Weak Bases ws (link to assignment with answers on last page)

Tuesday, 3.14.23

1. Look over yesterday's HW and answer questions

2. Notes: The Acid-Base Properties of Ions and Salts (link to notes)

3. HW: 11.2 The Acid-Base Properties of Ions and Salts ws (link to assignment with answers on last page)

Thursday, 3.16.23 

1. Answer questions about 11.2 assignment

2. 11.3 Quiz: Weak Acids and Bases (Open note)

3. Activity: Titration Curve Class Exploration (link to activity and link to simulation)

4. Notes: Titration Curves (link to notes)

5. Practice

Friday, 3.17.23

1. Mindful Minute

2. Brief notes on Titration Equivalence calculations

3. 11.4 Titration Calculations ws (link to assignment)

Monday, 3.6.23

1. Mindful Minute

2. 10.1 Test: Equilibrium

Tuesday, 3.7.23

1. Hand back lots of papers

2. Go over test (postponed due to many absences the day of the test)

3. Acids and Bases Bootcamp (link to video); take notes (Chapter 17.2 - 17.4 and 5.7 of book). Here's a link to the Powerpoint presentation that is in the video.

4. Homework: 10.2 Introduction to Acids and Bases (link to assignment, answers on last page, due Thursday)

Thursday, 3.9.23 

1. 1st Period Wish Week Delayed Start

2. Turn in 10.2 HW (answers on last page of original assignment)

3. Finish notes from Tuesday (strong vs. weak)

4. Go over Prelab: Titration Curves (link to prelab)

5. 10.3 Lab: Titration Curves (link to lab sheet, link to makeup data, due Monday)

6. HW: Finish lab

Friday, 3.10.23

1. 1st Period Wish Week Delayed Start

2. Mindful Minute

3. Poetry March Madness (link to voting form)

4. Hand back lots of papers

5. Go over test from Monday

6. Hand back 10.2 assignment...be sure to look at the answer in the original posting of the assignment and check your work.

7. Work on lab using your data or the makeup data (due Monday)

Monday, 2.27.23

1. Mindful Minute

2. Turn in work from Friday

3. Receive review sheet for Friday's equilibrium test (link to review sheet)

4. Notes: Finding Equilibrium Concentrations (link to notes)

5. HW: 9.1 Finding Equilibrium Concentrations ws (link to assignment answers on last page, do on your own paper, due tomorrow)

Tuesday, 2.28.23

1. Grade 8.1 assignment

2. Look over assignments up to this point and reteach as necessary

3. Practice

Thursday, 3.2.23 

1. Fuller is out due to non-Covid illness

2. Notes: Solubility Product (link to notes)

3. Video (if you'd like a little more help)

4. Classwork: 9.2 Solubility Product Practice (link to assignment with answers on last page)

5. Review for Equilibrium Test (link to review sheet)

Friday, 3.3.23

1. Mindful Minute

2. Answer questions and review for test that has been postponed to Monday

Monday, 2.20.23

1. No school due to President's Day!

Tuesday, 2.21.23

1. Mindful Minute

2. Turn in 7.3 Lab

3. Notes: Determination of the Equilibrium Constant (link to notes)

4. HW: 8.1 Calculating the Equilibrium Constant ws (link to assignment with answers on last page, do on your own paper, due Thursday)

Thursday, 2.23.23 (late start schedule due to weather)

1. Turn in 8.1 assignment

2. Demo: Milk of Magnesia Rainbow Equilibrium (cancelled due to today's short schedule)

3. 8.2 Lab: Investigating Le Châtelier's Principle (link to lab sheet, due Friday by end of class; link to virtual lab for makeups)

Friday, 2.24.23 (normal Thursday schedule with Mr. Poynter as guest chemistry teacher)

1. Mindful Minute

2. Notes: Le Châtelier's Principle (link to notes)

3. Work on lab and turn in TODAY

4. Notes: The Reaction Quotient - Predicting the Direction of Change (link to notes)

5. HW: 8.3 The Reaction Quotient and Equilibrium (link to assignment with answer on last page, due Monday)

Monday, 2.13.23

1. 7.1 Test: Kinetics

Tuesday, 2.14.23

1. Go over test

2. Activity: Straw Dynamic Equilibrium (Book section 16.2)

3. Notes: The Equilibrium Constant (link to notes, Book sections 16.3, 16.4, and 16.5)

4. HW: 7.2 The Equilibrium Constant ws (link to worksheet)

Thursday, 2.16.23

1. Mindful Minute

2. Go over prelab notes for today's lab (link to notes)

3. 7.3 Lab: Determination of the Equilibrium Constant for a Chemical Reaction (link to lab sheet and link to video for makeups)

4. HW: Complete Lab (due Tuesday)

Friday, 2.17.23

1. No school due to teacher inservice!

Monday, 2.6.23

1. Mindful Minute

2. Receive review sheet for Kinetics Test (link to review sheet with answers on last page)

3. Notes: The Integrated Rate Laws - The Dependence of Concentration on Time (link to notes)

4. HW: Go to AP Classroom and do assignment 6.1 Integrated Rate Law Practice (answers given when completed, due tomorrow)

Tuesday, 2.7.23

1. Turn in 6.1 HW

2. Notes: Determination of Order Using the Integrated Rate Laws (link to notes)

3. Perform 6.15 Activity: Determination of Order Using Graphical Analysis (link to assignment)

4. HW: Go to AP Classroom and do assignment 6.2 Integrated Rate Law Graphical Analysis Practice (answers given when completed, due Thursday)

Thursday, 2.9.23

1. Turn in 5.2 Lab (iodine rate lab); Extension! You may turn this in by Monday if you're not ready today.

2. Notes: Reaction Mechanisms (link to notes)

3. Homework: 6.3 Analyzing Reaction Mechanisms (link to assignment, due tomorrow)

Friday, 2.10.23

1. Mindful Minute

2. Notes: Multistep Reaction Energy Profiles (link to video notes)

3. Study for test

Monday, 1.30.23 (Late start due to temperatures)

1. Mindful Minute

2. Turn in 4.1 Lab

3. Notes: Introduction to Kinetics (link to notes)

4. HW: 5.1 ~p.670/3, 25, 27, 31, 33 (answers in "Backmatter" section of book, due Thursday)

Tuesday/Wednesday, 1.31.23/2.1.23 (block days, Tuesday is Thursday schedule)

1. Prelab: How to set up the concentrations for your lab (prelab notes)

2. Perform 5.2 Lab: Rates of Chemical Reactions - The Iodination of Acetone (link to lab sheet, due next Thursday, 2.9.23; link to video of lab for those that were absent...watch the video to collect data)

Thursday, 2.2.23 (late start, 35 min classes)

1. Answer questions about and turn in 5.1 assignment

2. Notes: The Rate Law (link to notes)

3. HW: 5.3 The Rate Law ws (link to assignment, answers on last page, due tomorrow)

Friday, 2.3.23

1. Mindful Minute

2. Answer questions about 5.3 assignment. Time in class to finish as necessary and turn in by end of class.

3. Work on 5.2 Lab due next block day

Monday, 1.23.23

1. Mindful Minute

2. Go over Test and talk about makeup opportunity

3. Demo: Hexane/Water/Food coloring

4. PhET Activity: Sugar vs. Salt in Water (link to simulation)

5. HW: Take notes on the following Powerpoint - Notes: Solution Formation and Separation (link to notes)

Tuesday, 1.24.23

1. Answer questions from yesterday's notes

2. Prelab notes for 4.1 Lab (link to prelab notes)

3. HW: Answer prelab questions for 4.1 Lab: How Can Color Be Used to Determine the Mass Percent of Copper in Brass? (link to lab sheet)

Wednesday, 1.25.23

1. Optional Makeup Test during Advisement

Thursday, 1.26.23

1. Perform 4.1 Lab: How Can Color Be Used to Determine the Mass Percent of Copper in Brass? (link to lab sheet, due Monday)

2. Optional Makeup Test after school

Friday, 1.27.23

1. Mindful Minute

2. Finish lab if necessary

3. AP Practice Day (Link to 4.2 AP Spectroscopy Group Practice assignment; if you were absent, you need to work these problems to turn in for a grade)

4. Optional Makeup Test after school

Monday, 1.16.23

1. Celebrate the life and legacy of MLK today on your day off!

Tuesday, 1.17.23

1. Mindful Minute

2. Receive review sheet for Friday's test (link to review sheet, not for grade)

3. Group discussions: How Intermolecular Forces Affect: Boiling/Condensation Point, Melting/Freezing Point, Surface Tension, Viscosity, and Capillary Action (link to group assignment, link to notes, section 12.4 of textbook)

4. Study for test

Wednesday, 1.18.23 (Snow Day!)

1. Here is your assignment for today to get you ready for Friday's test. While you do not need to turn in anything from today, the information covered will be on the test. If you have any questions, you are welcome to come to my advisement tomorrow after 8 am. You can also ask questions at the beginning of class on Friday before the test.

   • Virtual Lab: Heating Curve of Water (link to virtual lab and link to answers)

   • Notes: Types of Solids (link to notes)

Thursday, 1.19.23 (Wednesday Block due to Snow Day)

• No class

Friday, 1.20.23 (Thursday Block due to Snow Day)

1. Mindful Minute

2. Pass back papers and spend 30 minutes reviewing/asking questions

3. Test: Valence Bond Theory and Condensed States of Matter

Monday, 1.9.23 (Fuller out due to illness)

1. Mindful Minute

2. Sorry that I'm out today. Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow. Today's assignment is a great practice AP problem that covers a lot of what you have learned throughout this year, so it should be challenging. I was planning for you to do this tomorrow, but since I'm out, today is the day. Good luck!

3. Turn in assignment 1.2 tomorrow instead of today.

4. Classwork: 2.1 AP FRQ Practice: Sulfur Chemistry (link to assignment; do on your own paper, due tomorrow)

Tuesday, 1.10.23

1. Turn in 1.2 and 2.1 assignments

2. Notes: Valence Bond Theory and Hybridization (link to notes)

3. Classwork: Hybridization Practice

4. HW: 2.2 Online practice in AP Classroom: Bond Order, Bond Energy, Bond Length, and Enthalpy of Reaction (Go to AP Classroom, due Thursday)

Thursday, 1.12.23

1. Brief introduction to chromatography

2. Perform 2.3 Lab: Food Dye-Chromatography (link to lab sheet and link to video notes)

3. Notes: Molecular Shape and Polarity (link to notes)

4. HW: Finish 2.3 Lab (due tomorrow)

Friday, 1.13.23

1. Mindful Minute

2. Class discussion - Intermolecular Forces: The Forces That Hold the Condensed States Together (link to notes)

3. HW: 2.4 Intermolecular Forces ws (link to worksheet with answers on last page, due Tuesday) 

Monday, 1.2.23

1. Not yet.

Tuesday, 1.3.23

1. Still some time left!

Wednesday, 1.4.23

1. Last chance to have all the carefree fun you can!

Thursday, 1.5.23

1. Mindful Minute

2. Receive 2nd semester Fuller Passes

3. Notes: Resonance and Formal Charge (link to notes, Ch. 10.8)

4. Practice: 1.1 Formal Charge and Resonance ws (link to worksheet, do on your own paper or print, due tomorrow)

Friday, 1.6.23

1. Mindful Minute

2. Turn in 1.1 assignment (answers to yesterday's assignment)

3. Notes: Bond Energy, Bond Order, Bond Length, and Enthalpy of Reaction (link to notes)

4. HW: 1.2 Bond Energy, Bond Order, Bond Length, and Enthalpy of Reaction (link to ws)

Monday, 12.12.22

1. Mindful Minute

2. Perform 16.3 Lab: Molecular Geometry - Beyond the Octet (link to lab sheet)

Tuesday, 12.13.22

1. Finish lab and turn in

2. Notes: Covalent Bonding Energy Diagram and Metallic Bonding

3. Study for Semester Exam

Thursday, 12.15.22

1. Make Fall Semester Holiday Souvenir :) (link to procedure)

2. Study for Semester Exam

Friday, 12.16.22 (Advise, 2, 4, 5)

Monday, 12.19.22 (Advise, 1, 3, 6)

1. Mindful Minute

2. Take Semester Exam

Tuesday, 12.20.22 (7)

Next semester: Bond energies and Bond lengths; Notes: Resonance and Formal Charge (Ch. 10.8)

Monday, 12.5.22

1. Mindful Minute

2. Cannot go over test due to so many absences (26% in 1st period and 36% in 3rd period)...will go over Thursday (see makeup times listed in announcements above)

3. Play Kahoot! Review of Bonds (link to Kahoot!)

4. Notes: Ionic Bonding, Lewis Structures, and Lattice Energy (link to notes, Ch. 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4)

5. No HW

Tuesday, 12.6.22 

1. Notes: Introduction to Lewis Structures for Molecular Compounds (link to notes, Ch. 10.5)

2. HW: 16.1 Lewis Structures and Bonding ws (link to worksheet, due Thursday)

Thursday, 12.8.22

1. Pass back papers and go over test

2. Grade 16.1 assignment

3. Notes: More complex Lewis Structures (link to notes, Ch. 10.7)

4. Classwork: 16.2 Lewis Structures and Molecular Geometry, left column only (link to assignment)

5. HW: Finish as many Lewis Dot Structures on the 16.3 Lab as you can...you will be grateful you did! (link to lab sheet)

Friday, 12.2.22

1. Mindful Minute

2. Notes: VSEPR Theory (link to notes and link to VSEPR chart)

3. HW: Do 16.2 right column (do not do "Polarity"); Finish as many Lewis Dot Structures on the 16.3 Lab as you can...you will be grateful you did! (link to lab sheet)

Monday, 11.28.22

1. Mindful Minute

2. Receive review sheet for Friday's test (link to review sheet)

3. Notes: Valence Electrons and Ion Formation, slides 1-27 (link to notes) (did not finish, only to slide 16)

4. Mini-demo: s before d

5. HW: 15.1 p.387/43, 45, 47, 49, 53, 55, 57, 69, 95 (remember, answers are in the "Backmatter" section of your book in Appendix III, due Thursday)

Tuesday, 11.29.22 (late start due to snow)

1. Group discussions: Periodic Trends

2. Notes: Periodic Trends, slides 28 - end (link to notes)

3. HW: 15.2 p.387/61, 63, 67, 71, 75, 91, 105 (remember, answers are in the "Backmatter" section of your book in Appendix III, due Thursday; [note for Fuller for next year: turn this into a worksheet and eliminate problems with exceptions])

Thursday, 12.1.22

1. Finish notes from Tuesday

2. Work on HW from Tuesday, due today

3. 15.3 Periodic Trends AP Practice (posted in AP Classroom, optional but EXTREMELY recommended)

4. Study for test

Friday, 12.2.22

1. Mindful Minute

2. 15.4 Test: Quantum Mechanics and Periodic Trends (Ch. 8 and 9)

3. Receive review sheet for semester exam (link to review sheet)

Monday, 11.14.22

1. Mindful Minute

2. Turn in 13.1 book assignment

3. Go over tests and answer questions

4. Begin Notes: The Quantum View of the Atom (link to notes, book sections 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, and 9.3)

5. HW: 14.1 Orbital Diagrams and Electron Configurations (link to assignment, due Thursday)

Tuesday, 11.15.22

1. Continue notes and practice

Thursday, 11.17.22

1. Grade 13.1 assignment

2. Making connections between electron configurations and the periodic table; noble gas configurations

3. Play Electron Configuration Battleship!

4. Valence vs. core electrons; ionization energy

5. Evidence of electron configurations: PES (link to notes and link to PES simulation)

6. HW:  14.3 Electron Configuration AP Practice (assignment is located on AP Classroom and is due tomorrow)

Friday, 11.18.22 (Late start day due to snow)

1. Mindful Minute

2. Go over 14.3 Assignment and finish

3. Happy Thanksgiving!

Monday, 11.7.22

1. Mindful Minute

2. Turn in 12.3 assignment

3. Complete Notes: Enthalpy and Hess's Law (link to notes, book sections 7.8 and 7.9)

4. HW: 12.4 Hess's Law and Enthalpy Changes ws (link to assignment, due tomorrow)

Tuesday, 11.8.22

1. Return and grade papers, and answer questions (link to 12.2 Key; links to front 12.3 Key and back 12.3 Key; link to 12.4 Key)

2. Practice and review (link to review sheet)

Thursday, 11.10.22

1. Test: Chapters 6 (Gases) and 7 (Thermochemistry)

2. Group Lab Demo: Flame Test

Friday, 11.11.22

1. Mindful Minute

2. Notes: Electromagnetic Energy and the Nature of Light (link to notes)

3. HW: 13.1 p.344/3, 4, 12, 14, 35, 37, 38, 39, 43, 45 (due Monday)

Monday, 10.31.22

1. Happy Halloween!!!

2. Mindful Minute

3. Notes: Introduction to Thermochemistry (link to notes, pp.267-276)

4. HW: Finish going through notes if necessary

Tuesday, 11.1.22

1. Perform 12.1 Lab: Experimental Determination of the Caloric Energy of Cheetos (link to lab sheet, due Thursday. Makeup lab for some of you is at the beginning of Advisement on Wednesday...you know who you are.)

2. Homework: 

   • Go through and take your own notes on Notes: Energy Changes and Calorimetry (link to notes, book sections 7.4, 7.6, and 7.7)

   • Complete the lab to turn in on Thursday

Thursday, 11.3.22

1. Turn in 12.1 Lab

2. Classwork: 12.2 Specific Heat and Calorimetry (link to assignment, due tomorrow)

3. Notes: Stoichiometry Involving Enthalpy Changes (link to notes, book section 7.6)

4. Classwork: 12.3 AP Thermochemistry Practice Problems (link to assignment, do on your own paper or print for yourself, due Monday)

Friday, 11.4.22 (short periods due to weather/accidents)

1. Receive review sheet for Test over Gases and Thermochemistry (link to review sheet). Test is next Thursday, 11.10.22

2. Turn in 12.2 assignment

3. Mindful Minute

4. Begin Notes: Enthalpy and Hess's Law (link to notes, book sections 7.8 and 7.9)

5. HW: Finish 12.3 assignment

Tuesday (Gold Block Day), 10.25.22 

1. Mindful Minute

2. Hand back papers

3. Go over Midterm and answer questions.

4. Notes: Pressure, Temperature, and the Ideal Gas Law (link to notes)

5. HW: 11.2 Ideal Gas Law Practice ws (link to assignment, due tomorrow)

Wednesday (All Class Day), 10.26.22

1. Grade 11.2 Assignment

2. Perform 11.1 Lab: Determination of the Molar Mass of a Gas (link to lab sheet, due Thursday)

3. Go over "Lab Notes" slides before you do your calculations (link to slides)

4. Finish 11.1 Lab (due tomorrow)

Thursday (Late Start All Class Day), 10.27.22

1. Turn in 11.1 Lab

2. Notes: Gas Stoichiometry (link to notes)

3. HW: 11.3 Gas Stoichiometry ws (link to assignment, due tomorrow)

Friday, 10.28.22

1. Mindful Minute

2. Turn in 11.3

3. Notes: Real Gases

4. Gametime!: Risky Questions: AP Gas Practice (link to game so that you can practice the questions yourself)

Monday, 10.17.22

1. Mindful Minute

2. Answer questions about 9.3 Lab and turn in. You may turn in by end of day if needed.

3. Notes: Single Replacement Reactions and the Activity Series

4. HW: Study for test! (Today is your lucky day and my unlucky day: Here is a link to the original midterm exam. Due to a technology mistake I made, you get to use this as a practice exam. Here is the original review sheet (Review sheet link) and I highly recommend using it to study also. Don't just practice this test...study!)

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Wednesday (Block Day), 10.19.22

1. Take 10.1 Test: Fall Semester Midterm

Thursday and Friday, 10.21.22 and 10.22.22 

1. No classes for Fall Break...enjoy!!!

Next Monday: Turn in 9.3 Lab; Notes: Balancing Redox Reactions in Acid and Base solutions (pp. 916-919)

Monday, 10.10.22

1. Mindful Minute

2. Answer questions about 8.4 assignment and turn in

3. Notes: Oxidation-Reduction (Redox) Reactions (link to notes, pp. 195-200)

4. HW: 9.1 Oxidation States and Redox Reactions (link to assignment, due Friday, contains problems to be covered on Tuesday and Wednesday)

Tuesday, 10.11.22 

1. Receive review sheet for next week's midterm exam (Review sheet link)

2. Continue notes from yesterday

3. HW: Finish the 9.1 assignment, 9.2 Reactions Practice Problems assignment in AP Classroom, and the prelab for the 9.3 Lab on Friday.

Wednesday, 10.12.22 

1. No Classes due to Test Fest! However...

2. You need to do your HW from Monday and Tuesday!

Friday (Block Day), 10.14.22 

1. Mindful Minute

2. Turn in 9.1 HW; 9.2 should also be completed in AP Classroom.

3. Go over Prelab Powerpoint for lab (link to prelab)

4. Perform 9.3 Lab: Using Redox to Determine the Concentration of Store-Bought H2O2 (link to lab sheet, due Monday)

5. Midterm Exam next Wednesday!

Next Monday: Turn in 9.3 Lab; Notes: Balancing Redox Reactions in Acid and Base solutions (pp. 916-919)

Monday, 10.03.22

1. Mindful Minute

2. Take 8.1 Test: Unit 3 (Chapter 4) - Chemical Reactions and Chemical Quantities

Tuesday, 10.04.22 

1. Go over test and answer questions

2. Notes: Solutions and Solvation (link to notes, pp.175-179)

3. HW: 8.2 Aqueous Solutions and Solubility ws (link to worksheet, due Thursday)

Thursday, 10.06.22 

1. Turn in HW

2. Notes: Double Replacement Reactions (link to notes, pp.179-182)

3. Perform 8.3 Lab: Double Replacement Reactions and Net Ionic Equations (link to lab sheet, due tomorrow)

4. Notes: Ionic and Net Ionic Equations (link to notes, pp.183-185)

Friday, 10.07.22 

1. Mindful Minute

2. Turn in Lab

3. Notes: Molarity and Solution Stoichiometry (link to notes, pp.168-174)

4. HW: 8.4 p204/21, 27, 33, 35, 37 (due Monday)

Monday, 9.26.22

1. Mindful Minute

2. Turn in 6.3 Lab

3. Grade 6.4 assignment and answer questions (and discuss mistake on equation for percent yield. Correct equation: % yield = (actual yield / theoretical yield) x 100)

4. Perform 7.1 Mini lab: Percent yield of burning Mg (link to lab sheet, due tomorrow)

Tuesday, 9.27.22 

1. Turn in 7.1 Lab

2. Notes: Limiting Reactant (link to notes, pp. 149-155)

3. HW: 7.2 Limiting Reactant Practice Problems (p.161/35, 37, 43, 45, 46, 49, due Thursday)

Thursday, 9.29.22 

1. Receive review sheet for Unit 3 (Ch 4) Test on Monday (link to review sheet)

2. Grade 7.2 assignment, especially #46

3. Notes: Synth, Decomp, and Combustion Reactions (pp. 156-157)

4. 7.3 Lab: Predicting Products in Synthesis, Decomposition, and Combustion Reactions (link to lab sheet, due tomorrow)

5. HW: 7.4 Chapter 4 Practice in AP Classroom (link to AP Central, due tomorrow)

Friday, 9.30.22 

1. Mindful Minute

2. Hand back papers

3. Work on and turn 7.3 Lab. Only complete the stations you worked on in class yesterday and the extension.

4. Work on 7.4 AP Classroom practice and submit (link to AP Central)

5. Work on review for test (link to review sheet)

Monday, 9.19.22

1. Mindful Minute

2. 6.1 Test: Unit 2 - Chapter 3 (Molecules and Compounds)

Tuesday, 9.20.22 

1. Turn in 5.4 Lab (MgO lab)

2. Go over Test and answer questions

3. Notes: Chemical Reactions and Equations (link to notes, pp. 141 - 145)

4. HW: 6.2 Balancing Chemical Equations ws (link to worksheet, due Thursday)

Wednesday, 9.21.22

1. Optional: Come in during Advisement to earn credit back for nomenclature and formula part of the test.

Thursday, 9.22.22 

1. Grade HW

2. Notes: Introduction to Stoichiometry (link to notes, pp. 145 - 149)

3. 6.3 Lab: Stoichiometry Rotation (link to lab sheet, due Monday; link to data for Period 1 only due to fire drill)

4. HW: 6.4 Stoichiometry Assignment (link to worksheet, due Monday)

Friday, 9.23.22 

1. No school due to teacher inservice...enjoy!

Monday, 9.12.22

1. Mindful Minute

2. Receive review for Unit 2 (Chapter 3) Test (link to review sheet)

3. Answer questions about 4.2 HW (backup assignment if needed)

4. Take 5.1 Quiz: Ionic Compound Nomenclature and Formulas

5. Work on 4.1 Lab (due tomorrow)

Tuesday, 9.13.22 

1. Turn in 4.1 lab

2. Go over Quiz

3. Notes: Molecular Compound Nomenclature and Formulas (link to notes, pp.106-107)

4. HW: Assignment 5.2 p. 131/47,49, 55, 57, 63, 65 (due tomorrow)

Thursday, 9.15.22 

1. Answer questions about HW

2. Take 5.3 Quiz: Nomenclature and Formulas

3. Intro to Empirical Formula Lab

4. Perform 5.4 Lab: Experimental Determination of the Empirical Formula for Magnesium Oxide (link to lab sheet, due Tuesday)

Friday, 9.16.22 

1. Mindful Minute

2. Go over quiz.

3. Need more help? Link to practice with explanations and link to more mixed practice naming compounds (answers are on the second page)

4. Notes: Discuss lab, percent composition, and empirical formulas (link to notes)

5. HW: Study for Monday's Test (link to review sheet)

Monday, 9.5.22

1. No school! Enjoy your Labor Day!

Tuesday, 9.6.22 (All Day Schedule)

1. Mindful Minute

2. Answer brief Three Week Check-In Survey (link to survey)

3. Go over test and answer questions

4. Notes: The Elements Organized (link to notes), pp. 65-69)

5. HW: Finish 3.3 Lab: Experimental Determination of the Formula for a Hydrate (due Thursday)

Thursday, 9.8.22 (Gold Schedule)

1. Hand out Fuller Passes and HW Passes to winners of Jeopardy

2. Go over data from 3 Week Check-In Survey

3. Turn in 3.3 Lab

4. Finish discussing ions from Tuesday's notes

5. Notes: What are bonds and what does Coulomb's Law have to do with them? (pp. 93-99)

6. Perform the 4.1 Lab: Types of Bonds (lab sheet, due Tuesday with time to work on Monday)

Friday, 9.9.22 (Modified Cougar Day, 43 min classes with assembly at end)

1. Notes: Ionic Compound Formulas and Names (link to notes, pp. 100-105)

2. HW: Assignment 4.2 p.131/35, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45 (you can find these in Chapter 3 "Exercises: Molecules and Compounds" in the table of contents, due Monday)

Monday, 8.29.22

1. Monday Mindful Minute

2. Review sheet for Friday's Unit 1 Test posted (link to review sheet, not due for a grade)

3. Notes: Moles (pp. 73-74) (link to notes)

4. HW: 3.1 Molar Conversions ws, Part 1 only! (link to worksheet)

Tuesday, 8.30.22

1. Hand back graded papers

2. Turn in HW

3. Give answers to 3.1 assignment and answer questions

4. Notes: Molar Mass and Molar Conversions (pp. 75-78) (link to notes)

5. HW: 3.2 Molar Mass and Molar Conversions ws (link to worksheet, due Thursday)

Thursday, 9.1.22

1. Grade HW

2. Receive codes for Mastering Chemistry/Textbook

3. Perform the 3.3 Lab: Experimental Determination of the Formula for a Hydrate (link to lab sheet)

4. Study and ask questions during down-time of lab! link to review sheet

Friday, 9.2.22

1. Take the 3.4 Unit 1 Test: Chapters 1 and 2

Monday, 8.22.22

1. 1. 1. Monday Mindful Minute

      2. Answer any questions about the reading

      3. Open-note 2.1 Quiz: Tro Book Sections 1.1 - 1.3 (link to quiz)

      4. Hand out periodic table, polyatomic ion sheet, AP Equation sheet, and AP Periodic Table

      5. Notes: Units of Measurement, Precision, and Significant Figures (pp. 13 - 26) (link to notes)

      6. HW: 2.2 Units of Measurement, Precision, and Significant Figures ws (link to assignment)

Tuesday, 8.23.22

1. Grade HW from yesterday (with chance to redo as necessary)

2. Perform 2.4 Activity: Mystery Boxes (link to activity sheet)

3. Begin Notes: Subatomic particles and the periodic law (pp. 59-61 and 65-67) (link to notes)

Thursday, 8.25.22

1. Perform 2.6 Lab: Determination of the Thickness of Aluminum Foil (link to lab sheet)

2. The Atom: A Brief History (pp. 51-59)

3. Demo: Indirect Evidence Leads to Rutherford's Model of the Atom

4. Continue notes from Tuesday

5. Classwork: 2.3 Atomic Symbols and Subatomic Particles ws (link to assignment)

Friday, 8.26.22

1. You have 15 min. to finish up lab report with your group

2. Turn in HW

3. Notes: Isotopes, Average Atomic Mass, and Mass Spectrometry (pp.61-63 and 69-73)  (link to notes)

4. HW: 2.5 Mass Spectrometry ws (link to assignment)

Monday, 8.15.22

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Tuesday, 8.16.22

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Wednesday, 8.17.22

Hey there AP Chemistry students and welcome!  Get ready for an adventure in chemistry. You will be stretched and your mind opened to a world you didn't know existed. Brace yourself! Scroll down for the weekly agenda.

1. Get into groups of 2 or 3 and fill out 1.1 Demonstration: Paint Can Conundrum  (group demo sheet)

2. Fuller's introduction and go over course syllabus and expectations

3. HW: Take 1.2 Chemistry Background Knowledge "Quiz" (link to quiz, due tomorrow in class)

Thursday, 8.18.22

1. Answer any questions you have about the class

2. Watch Video: Starting with Safety (watch video here) and go over lab safety equipment in the classroom

3. Go over my website and resources

4. Homework: 

   • Sign 1.3 Lab Safety Contract and get parent/guardian to sign (link to contract) (due by Monday)

Friday, 8.19.22

1. Go over AP Chemistry Course Topics

2. Register with AP Central for AP Chemistry Course (slideshow for help)

3. Notes: Physical and Chemical Changes and Properties; Energy (link to notes)

   • Watch the demo. Describe what you saw as a physical or chemical change and defend your answer with what you learned today. Support your argument with evidence!

4. Homework: 

   • Create your account with Pearson's "Mastering Chemistry". (Instructions link; for now select "Get temporary access without payment for 14 days"; you will be given an access code within 2 weeks) 

   • Read sections 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 (pp. 1-9). There's a lot of vocabulary that you will need to be familiar with as we move forward. You will have an open-note quiz over this material on Monday