Announcements
Next test is a lab test on Monday, May 18th (link to review)
Semester Exam on May 26th (1st period) and 27th (2nd period) (link to review sheet)
Agenda (current week at top)
Unit 11: Stoichiometry
Monday: 5.18.26
Perform experimental procedure for 19.1 Test: Stoichiometry Lab Practical
Tuesday: 5.19.26
Perform calculations for 19.1 Test: Stoichiometry Lab Practical
Study for next week's semester exam (link to review sheet)
Wednesday/Thursday: 5.20.26/5.21.26
Study for next week's semester exam (link to review sheet)
Friday: 5.22.26
Tie Dye Day! (Link to tie dye techniques)
Study for Semester Exam
Unit 11: Stoichiometry
Monday: 5.11.26
18.1 Open Note Quiz Over Percent Yield of Burning Magnesium Lab and turn in lab with quiz
Perform Reaction Circus Presentations (make sure you have filled out this form as it counts as 40 points of your grade!)
Tuesday/Wednesday: 5.12.26/5.13.26
Finish Reaction Circus Presentations if necessary
Finish S'mores Lab if you need to and turn in
Work on 18.2 Limiting Reactant Practice. Do on your own paper (link to assignment, due Friday)
Review for Test: Lab Practical
Thursday: 5.14.26
No School...Graduation!
Friday: 5.13.26/5.15.26
Grade 18.2 HW
Discuss Lab Quiz from Monday
Work on Practice Test Review (link to review)
Unit 11: Stoichiometry
Monday: 5.4.26
Announcement: Lab Practical next Monday and Tuesday
Go over Chemical Reactions Test
Answer questions about 16.3 assignment and turn in
Notes: Percent Yield (link to notes)
Begin work on 17.1 Lab Practice problems (link to lab sheet, lab tomorrow, due block day)
Tuesday: 5.5.26
Perform 17.1 Lab: Percent Yield of Burning Magnesium (link to lab sheet, due block day)
Wednesday: 5.6.26
Snow Day!
Thursday/Friday: 5.7.26/5.8.26
Carry out 17.3 Lab: S'mores Limiting Reactant (link to lab sheet, due Friday)
Unit 11: Stoichiometry
Monday: 4.27.26
Grade 15.4 assignment
Discuss approval plans for Reaction Circus (link to assignment form)
10 min to work on Reaction Circus
Fill out the Great Stoichiometry Concept Map (link to chart)
Finish Notes: Introduction to Stoichiometry (link to notes, slides 17-end)
Begin practice: 16.1 Lab: Stoichiometry Practical (link to assignment, due at end of class tomorrow, not for homework)
Tuesday: 4.28.26
Hand back 15.4 Asst, look over answer key (link to answers), and ask questions
Turn in Reaction Circus Proposal
Continue 16.1 Practical and turn in
Wednesday/Thursday: 4.29.26/4.30.26
Work on 16.2 Lab: Stoichiometry Rotation (link to lab sheet, due Friday)
Friday: 5.1.26 (Fuller out)
Finish work on 16.2 Lab from block day and turn in today
Do the following assignment on your own paper: Classwork: 16.3 Stoichiometry Practice (link to assignment with answers on last page, due Monday)
Unit 11: Stoichiometry
Monday: 4.20.26
15.1 Test: Chemical Reactions (Link to review sheet with answers on last page)
Tuesday: 4.21.26 (Fuller Out)
Sorry I am out today, but here is your assignment:
Get into groups of 2 or 3 (you may include a person that is absent today in your group, but you might want to make sure you can depend of them on presentation day) and work on 15.2 "Reaction Circus" (link to assignment form, proposal sheet due Tuesday, 5.5.26; perform demonstration on Friday, 5.8.26)
Wednesday/Thursday: 4.22.26/4.23.26
Receive Reaction Circus sheet and sign up for Reaction Circus reactions
Classwork: 15.3 Mole Review ws (link to worksheet, due today)
Notes: Introduction to Stoichiometry (link to notes, slides 1-16 only)
HW: 15.4 Introduction to Stoichiometry ws (link to assignment, due Monday)
Friday: 4.24.26
No school due to teacher inservice
Monday: 4.27.26
Grade 15.4 assignment
Discuss approval plans for Reaction Circus (link to assignment form)
10 min to work on Reaction Circus
Hand out molar conversion chart (link to chart)
Finish Notes: Introduction to Stoichiometry (link to notes, slides 17-21 only)
Begin practice: 16.1 Stoichiometry Practical (link to manipulative)
Tuesday: 4.28.26
Turn in Reaction Circus Proposal
Continue 16.1 Practical
Unit 10: Chemical Reactions
Monday: 4.13.26
Finish Procedure and Analysis 1 of 13.3 Double Replacement Lab and turn in (we are not doing Analysis 2 and Analysis 3 this year)
Classwork: Work on review sheet for Friday's test (Link to review sheet with answers on last page)
Tuesday: 4.14.26
PSAT Testing
Wednesday/Thursday: 4.15.26/4.16.26
CMAS Testing
Study for test (Link to review sheet with answers on last page)
Friday: 4.17.26
Group review for Chemical Reactions Test
Monday: 4.20.26
15.1 Test: Chemical Reactions (Link to review sheet with answers on last page)
Unit 10: Chemical Reactions
Monday: 4.6.26
Grade 12.2 Synthesis, Decomposition, and Combustion Reactions ws and answer questions
Brief Intro Notes: Single Replacement Reactions
13.1 Virtual Lab: The Activity Series and Single Replacement Reactions (lab sheet and link for simulation)
Tuesday: 4.7.26 (Fuller out)
Go over Notes: The activity series and single replacement reactions (link to notes)
Finish lab from yesterday and turn in
Classwork/Homework: 13.2 Single Replacement Reactions ws (link to worksheet, do on your own paper, due block day)
Wednesday/Thursday: 4.8.26/4.9.26
CMAS Testing
Turn in 13.1 Lab if you did not do so already
Friday: 4.10.26
Receive review sheet for Reactions Test next Friday (Link to review sheet with answers on last page)
Grade 13.2 HW
Intro Notes: Double replacement reactions and solubility (link to notes)
Begin 13.3 Lab: Double Replacement Reactions and Net Ionic Equations (lab sheet, due Tuesday)
Unit 10: Chemical Reactions
Monday: 3.30.26
Last day of Spring Break...enjoy!
Tuesday: 3.31.26
Welcome back! We're in the home-stretch.
If you have not yet, fill out T-Shirt Size Order for Tie Dye! (link to form)
Notes: Chemical Equations and Balancing (link to notes)
HW: 12.1 Balancing Chemical Equations and Identifying Types of Reactions ws (link to worksheet, Part 1 and Day 1 of Part 2 only, left column only, due block day)
Wednesday/Thursday: 4.1.26/4.2.26
Grade HW
Exercise: Types of Chemical Reactions
Notes: Types of Chemical Reactions (link to notes)
Complete the rest of the 12.1 Assignment as well as 11.3 Lab "Analysis" 2 and the first column of "Analysis 3"
Friday: 4.3.26
Grade HW
Notes: Predicting products in synthesis, decomposition, and combustion reactions (link to video notes if you were absent)
HW: 12.2 Synthesis, Decomposition, and Combustion Reactions ws (link worksheet)
Unit 10: Chemical Reactions
Monday: 3.16.26
Notes: Molecular Formulas (link to notes, slides 16-end)
Classwork: 11.1 Determination of a Molecular Formula (link to assignment)
Study for test
Tuesday: 3.17.26
11.2 Test: Counting Particles in Substances
Wednesday/Thursday: 3.18.26/3.19.26
Go over test
Brief introduction to Chemical Reactions
Perform 11.3 Lab: Chemical Reactions Introduction (lab sheet and virtual lab for makeups)
Friday: 3.20.26
Fill out T-Shirt Size Order for Tie Dye! (link to form)
Watch video...no makeup work.
Unit 8: Counting Particles in Substances
Monday: 3.9.26
Turn in Mole Rotation Lab
Perform 10.1 Lab: Percentage of Water in Popcorn (link to lab sheet with makeup data on last page, due tomorrow)
HW: Finish Lab Sheet
Tuesday: 3.10.26 (Fuller out)
Turn in 10.1 assignment
On your own or with a partner, go over Notes: Percent Composition (link to notes)
Classwork: 10.2 Percent Composition ws (link to worksheet, due Block Day)
Wednesday/Thursday: 3.11.26/3.12.26
Receive review sheet for next Tuesday's test (link to review sheet)
Turn in 10.2 assignment
Begin Notes: Empirical Formulas (link to notes, slides 1-4)
Perform 10.3 Lab: Experimental Determination of the Empirical Formula of Magnesium Oxide (link to lab sheet, due Monday) (link to virtual lab for makeups)
Friday: 3.13.26
Finish Notes: Empirical Formulas (link to notes, slides 4-15)
HW: Complete 10.3 Lab (due Monday)
Unit 8: Counting Particles in Substances
Monday: 3.2.26
Grade 8.3 assignment
Notes: Molar Mass (link to notes)
HW: 9.1 Mole Power! ws (link to worksheet, due tomorrow)
Tuesday: 3.3.26 (Fuller out)
Look over 9.1 assignment with partners
Work period
Wednesday/Thursday: 3.4.26/3.5.26
Poetry March Madness! (Link to poems. Period 1: Choose between poems 1 and 2; Period 2: Choose between poems 3 and 4)
Perform 9.2 Lab: Mole Rotation (link to lab sheet, due by end of period block day)
Work on 9.2 Lab and turn in
Perform 9.3 Lab: Percentage of Water in Popcorn (link to lab sheet with makeup data on last page, due Friday)
Friday: 3.6.26
Snow Day! Enjoy!
Unit 8: Counting Particles in Substances
Monday: 2.23.26
8.1 Test: Unit 7 - Molecular Structure and Properties (link to review sheet)
Tuesday: 2.24.26
Brief introduction to the mole discussion
Introduction to the Mole by watching Video: The Mole
Practice scientific notation on your calculator: Link to notes, slides 1-14 only
Wednesday/Thursday: 2.25.26/2.26.26
8.2 Lab: Counting by Weighing (link to lab sheet, due today)
Notes: Moles (link to notes)
Friday: 2.27.26
Go over 8.1 Test
Brief review of moles
Classwork/Homework: 8.3 One Step Molar Conversions ws (link to worksheet, due Friday)
Unit 7: Molecular Structure and Properties
Monday: 2.16.26
Continue the Presidents' Day celebrations!
Tuesday: 2.17.26
Notes: Strength of Dispersion Forces
Continue work on lab (link to lab sheet and link to graphing instructions, due block day)
Wednesday/Thursday: 2.18.26/2.19.26
Turn in
Notes: Dimensional Analysis (link to notes)
Classwork: 7.1 Dimensional Analysis Practice (link to assignment, due by Friday)
Study for Test
Friday: 2.20.26
Study for Test
Monday: 2.23.26
8.1 Test: Unit 7 - Molecular Structure and Properties (link to review sheet)
Unit 7: Molecular Structure and Properties
Monday: 2.9.26 (Fuller Out)
I hope that you have a good, productive day while I am out. Below is the plan. Do your best and if you get stuck on something, skip it and work on the remaining questions. I can help tomorrow.
Last Friday, I put you into groups for the 5.3 Lab. Continue work on 5.3 Lab: How Does Molecular Polarity Affect Melting Point? with your group using the following virtual lab video to collect your data (link to lab sheet and link to virtual lab video). If you were absent, join a group. If you are missing a partner, remove their name from your lab and they will make up the lab later. If you do not have the lab sheet because of an absent partner, go to the library and print one for your group. If you finish today, turn in your lab. If not, you will have a little bit of time tomorrow in class to finish.
When you finish the lab, watch the following video about "Intermolecular Forces." Be sure to take notes. (Link to video) If you don't do this in class, this is your homework.
If you have time and you have not finished the 5.1 Lab (5.1 Lab: Molecular Geometry), work with your partner to fill out the chart. You can build the models for me later. The lab will be due by Thursday.
Tuesday: 2.10.26
Turn in 5.3 Lab
Notes: Types of Intermolecular Forces (link to notes)
Time to finish 5.1 Lab: Molecular Geometry if necessary (due by Thursday)
Practice: 6.1 Polarity and Intermolecular Forces (link to assignment, due block day)
Wednesday/Thursday: 2.11.26/2.12.26
Receive review sheet for next week's test (link to review sheet)
Grade HW
Perform 6.3 Lab: How Intermolecular Forces Affect Evaporation Temperature Changes (link to lab sheet and link to graphing instructions, due next week on block day)
Friday: 2.13.26
No class due to President's Day weekend. Celebrate your favorite! Me? I'd probably look to Jefferson, Lincoln, or T. Roosevelt for some inspiration.
Unit 7: Molecular Structure and Properties
Monday: 2.2.26
Go over test
Notes: VSEPR Theory (slides 1-29 only, link to notes and link to chart handout)
Tuesday: 2.3.26
Begin 5.1 Lab: Molecular Geometry (link to lab sheet, due block day)
Wednesday/Thursday: 2.4.26/2.5.26
Notes: Molecular polarity (slides 30-36, link to notes)
Complete 5.1 Lab: Molecular Geometry and turn in
HW: 5.2 Lewis Dot Structures and Molecular Geometry Practice (link to assignment, due Friday)
Friday: 2.6.26
Go over test
Grade HW
Perform 5.3 Lab: How Does Molecular Polarity Affect Melting Point? (link to lab sheet, due Tuesday)
Unit 6: Covalent and Ionic Bonding
Monday: 1.26.26
Receive review sheet for test (link to review sheet)
Notes: Naming Molecular Compounds (link to notes)
HW: 4.1 Molecular Compound Nomenclature and Mixed Review (link to assignment, answers on last page; due tomorrow)
Tuesday: 1.27.26
Grade 4.1 Assignment
Classwork/Homework: 4.2 Covalent Bonding Online Activity (link to activity sheet and link for activity)
Wednesday/Thursday: 1.28.26/1.29.26
Grade 4.2 assignment
Notes: Covalent Bonding and Basic Lewis Dot Structures (link to notes)
Classwork: 4.3 Drawing Basic Lewis Dot Structures ws (link to worksheet)
Review for test
Friday: 1.30.26
Take 4.4 Unit 6 Test: Covalent and Ionic Bonding
Unit 6: Covalent and Ionic Bonding
Monday: 1.19.26
No School...celebrate the life and legacy of MLK!
Tuesday: 1.20.26
Notes: Naming Ionic Compounds with Transition Metals, slides 18-end (link to notes)
Classwork/HW: 2.2b Activity: Rolling the Dice - Ionic Compound Names and Formulas, Game #2 (link to assignment, due tomorrow)
Wednesday/Thursday: 1.21.26/1.22.26
Turn in 2.2 Activity
3.1 Lab: Speed Dating Solubility (link to lab sheet, due Friday)
Notes: Solutions and Solvation (link to notes)
HW: Complete 3.1 Lab
Friday: 1.23.26
Finish Notes: Solutions and Solvation
Work with your partner to make sure 3.1 Lab is good to turn in
Unit 6: Covalent and Ionic Bonding
Monday: 1.12.26 (Fuller out)
Sorry to miss you all today. I will be back tomorrow and we will finish the lab from Friday. Today, you will need to do the following:
Go over the following and take notes in your notebook: Notes - Electron Configurations, Ion Formation, and Lewis Structures (link to notes)
Complete the following assignment on your own paper or print out for yourself. Do your best, even if you are unsure on a concept or two. Classwork: 2.1 Ion Formation ws (link to assignment, due tomorrow)
Tuesday: 1.13.26
Grade 2.1 assignment
Continue work on 1.3 Lab (due block day after some time in class to finish it)
Wednesday/Thursday: 1.14.26/1.15.26
Receive Fuller Passes
Go over Science Registration Information
Time to work on 1.3 Lab, due by end of period (link to virtual lab if you want to check your data)
Notes: Compound Properties (link to notes)
Notes: Ionic Compound Nomenclature (on slides 1-17, No Transition Metals yet) (link to notes)
Friday: 1.16.26
Finish notes and practice
Classwork: 2.2a Activity: Rolling the Dice - Ionic Compound Names and Formulas, Game #1 (link to assignment)
Unit 6: Covalent and Ionic Bonding
Monday: 1.5.26
Almost there!
Tuesday: 1.6.26
One more day!
Wednesday: 1.7.26
Reintroduction to class and policies (links: class policies, periodic table, equation sheet, and polyatomic ion sheet)
Discuss Optional Semester Exam opportunity (link to grade predictor)
Introduction questions (link to survey)
Brain Hack: 6 Secrets to Learning Faster (Backed by Neuroscience) (link to video and link to questions; due tomorrow)
Read the questions first. Pick two questions from 3 - 11 that you want to focus on during the video.
Watch the video
On the 1.1 Brain Hack: 6 Secrets to Learning Faster (Backed by Neuroscience) sheet (link to sheet), answer questions 1 and 2 and then answer the two questions you picked to focus on.
Thursday: 1.8.26
Practice: 1.2 Electron Configurations and the Periodic Table (link to assignment, due tomorrow)
Play Electron Configuration Battleship!
Friday: 1.9.26
Turn in 1.2 assignment if you have not already.
Perform 1.3 Lab: Types of Bonding (link to lab sheet, due Block day of next week, not homework...time in class on Tuesday; link to virtual lab if you were absent)
Fall Semester Materials Below
Unit 4: Classification of Matter
Monday, 12.15.25
Review Electron Configuration patterns on the periodic table
Work on 16.4 Lab and turn in
Review for Final Exam
Tuesday, 12.16.25
Hello amazing students! This semester has been one full of so many emotions and has asked so much of you. Now as the semester draws to a close, another test of your resilience arises.
The school closure today changes how the semester exam will be run. If you are happy with your grade in my class where it is right now, you are exempt from taking the exam including the Unit 4 portion. Your grade will stay where it is. However, if you would like to take the test to try to raise your average, you can do so on Thursday.
If you do take my semester exam, it will still be graded the way I originally planned it: one portion will be the Unit 4 Test and the entire test will count as the semester final exam. If your semester grade goes up due to taking the exam, you will get the new grade. If it goes down, you will retain your previous grade.
Here is the schedule for tomorrow if you do want to take the Unit test and/or the Semester Exam:
Blocks 1 / 2 (8:30-9:50AM)
Blocks 3 / 4 (9:55-11:15AM)
Lunch (11:20-12:05PM)
Blocks 5 / 6 (12:10-1:30PM)
Block 7 / Make ups (1:35-2:55PM)
You do not need to attend any class that you are not taking an exam in.
If you have any questions, please email me at thfuller@jeffco.k12.co.us. If I don't see you before the break, please enjoy the holidays and I look forward to seeing you next semester! For the rest of you, see you in class on Thursday!
Link to semester exam review sheet
Thursday, 12.18.25
Hello again. The district has cancelled classes for today. This also means that finals have been cancelled for the semester. Your grade will be posted as is. However, if you were counting on the semester exam/unit test to pull your grade up, an opportunity of some sort will be offered next semester. What that will look like is not clear yet. If you are happy with where your grade landed or if the finals would not have affected your grade, there is nothing more for you to do. Have a fantastic break and I'll see you in January!
Friday: 12.12.25
That's it! Have a great break and enjoy the holidays! See you in January!
Unit 4: Classification of Matter
Monday, 12.8.25
Turn in HW
Notes: The Quantum Model, Orbitals, and Electron Configurations (link to notes)
HW: 16.1 Electron Configurations ws (link to worksheet, due tomorrow)
Tuesday, 12.9.25
Grade 16.1 HW
Activity: Organizing Colored Shapes (link to notes for absent students)
Introduce "Periodic Table Battleship"
Wednesday/Thursday, 12.10.25/12.11.25
Receive review sheet for final exam of the year (link to review sheet with answers)
Game Time! Play "Periodic Table Battleship" (link to instructions)
Movie: “Elements Organised: The Periodic Table” (link to video). Fill out 16.2 Elements Organized Video Notecatcher (link to notecatcher, due at end of video)
Notes: The Elements Organized (link to notes)
Friday: 12.12.25
16.4 Lab: Electron Configurations and the Periodic Table (link to lab sheet and link to periodic table of electron configurations)
HW: Finish the 16.4 Lab (due Monday)
Monday
Grade HW
Game Time! Play "Electron Configuration Battleship"
Review for Final Exam
Tuesday
Review for Final Exam
Wed/Thur
Final Exam
Unit 4: Classification of Matter
Monday, 12.1.25
I'm sorry that I'm out today. I have been quite sick for the entire break and am still not well. I will do my best to be here tomorrow. Here's the plan:
Complete the 14.4. Lab: Dalton's Atomic Theory. Adopt anyone that might have been absent on Friday into your group. Make sure to explain to them what you did and what you observed. You will need to complete Stations 1 and 3. The molecular model sets are on the counters for Station 3. Do not leave the model balls connected...disconnect before you leave. You will not do Station 2. Turn in the lab today.
Go over the following notes and copy into your notebook: Notes: Subatomic Particles (link to notes). You should recognize this material from previous science classes (biology and earth science).
Perform the following assignment in class and finish for homework. You already have the sheet because you did Part 1 before the break. Homework: 14.3 Atomic Symbols and Subatomic Particles (link to worksheet, due tomorrow)
Tuesday, 12.2.25
Turn in HW
Notes: Isotopes and Average Atomic Mass (link to notes)
15.1 Lab: Average Atomic Mass of Pennyium (link to lab sheet; due Block Day)
Wednesday/Thursday, 12.3.25/12.4.25
Turn in Lab
Notes: Neils Bohr’s Atom (link to notes)
Perform 15.2 Lab: Flame Test (link to lab sheet, link for makeup lab, due Friday)
Friday: 12.5.25
Turn in lab
Notes: The Quantum View of the Atom (link to notes), orbitals only
HW: 15.3 The Bohr Model and Quantization ws (link to worksheet, do on your own paper, due Monday)
Unit 4: Classification of Matter
Monday, 11.17.25
Did someone lose a ring in here?
Go over test
Video: Powers of Ten (link to video)
Notes: Types of Matter (link to notes)
Begin 14.1 Lab: Classification of Matter (link to lab sheet, due tomorrow)
Tuesday, 11.18.25
Continue work on 14.1 Lab and turn in if complete
Wednesday/Thursday, 11.19.25/11.20.25
5 minutes to finish 14.1 Lab and turn in
Finish Notes: Types of Matter (link to notes)
14.2 Activity: Mystery Box (link to activity sheet, due today)
Do Part 1 of the 14.3 Atomic Symbols and Subatomic Particles ws (link to assignment, only do Part 1!)
Friday, 11.21.25
Notes: A Brief History of Atomic Theory (link to notes)
14.4 Lab: Dalton's Atomic Theory (link to assignment, due Monday)
Unit 3: The Kinetic Molecular Theory
Monday, 11.10.25
Receive review sheet for Unit 3 Test (link to review sheet)
Answer questions about HW
13.1 Progress Check (Quiz) over Boyle's Law (due in class)
Notes: Gay-Lussac's and Charles' Laws (link to notes, slides 12-26)
HW: 13.2 Elementary Gas Laws Practice (link to assignment)
Tuesday, 11.11.25
Answer questions about HW
13.3 Progress Check (Quiz) over Elementary Gas Laws (due in class)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_2bo4abkPI (link to video guide)
Wednesday/Thursday, 11.12.25/11.13.25
Finish Video from yesterday
Review for Unit 3 Test (link to review sheet and link to Jeopardy Review)
Friday, 11.14.25
Mindful Minute
13.5 Unit 3 Test: The Kinetic Molecular Theory (link to review sheet)
Unit 3: The Kinetic Molecular Theory
Monday, 11.3.25 (Fuller out)
For those of you that were coming in this morning to meet with me, I'm very sorry I missed you. I will be in the rest of the week and can help you.
Go over these notes and put your own notebook - Notes: Pressure and Temperature (link to notes, slides 12 to end)
Watch this video on how to do pressure conversions. This will help with what you saw in the notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv81QCGNnVo&t=2s
Continue work on 11.2 Gas Lab with your group and turn in by tomorrow
HW: 12.1 Pressure, Temperature, and Volume Conversions ws (link to worksheet, do this on your own paper or print for yourself; due Tuesday)
Tuesday, 11.4.25
Turn in 12.1 asst
Setting up the pressure sensor slides
Perform 12.2 Lab: Pressure-Volume Relationship for Gases (link for lab sheet, due Friday)
Wednesday/Thursday, 11.5.25/11.6.25
Perform 12.3 Lab: Pressure-Temperature Relationship for Gases (link to lab sheet, due Friday)
Class time to work on 12.2 and 12.3 Labs (due by Monday)
HW: There is no homework. We will work on labs in class on Friday. Thank you, 1st period, for your patience and hard work today.
Friday, 11.7.25
Continue to work on lab writeup and turn in labs
Notes: Boyle's Law (link to notes, only look at Boyle's Law section slides 1-11)
HW: 12.4 Calculations with Boyles’ and Gay-Lussac’s Laws (link to assignment, on your own paper or print for yourself; only do Boyle's Law section, due Monday)
Unit 3: The Kinetic Molecular Theory
Monday, 10.27.25 (Fuller out)
Mindful Minute
If you missed the test on Friday, you will need to make it up during Labs on Thursday. Be sure to sign up for my lab. You can sign up for both to ensure you have time. However, Lab 2 should be plenty of time to complete the test. Lab 1 is shorter than Lab 2.
Today: Use one of the links below to join my Edpuzzle class. (If you do not have an Edpuzzle account, you will need to make one.) Then do the two assigned Edpuzzles:
11.1a The World of Chemistry: A Matter of State
11.1b What are the Gas Laws?
Links to join your class in Edpuzzle:
Period 1: https://edpuzzle.com/join/rubvusm (if for some reason this link does not work, Google "Edpuzzle", make an account if you don't have one, and use the class code rubvusm to join period 1)
Period 2: https://edpuzzle.com/join/mamohuf (if for some reason this link does not work, Google "Edpuzzle", make an account if you don't have one, and use the class code mamohuf to join period 2)
Tuesday, 10.28.25
No classes due to Test Fest
Wednesday/Thursday, 10.29.25/10.30.25
Notes: Kinetic Molecular Theory (link to notes, slides 1-11 only)
Perform 11.2 Lab: Gas in a Bell Jar (link to lab sheet, due Friday)
Friday, 10.31.25
Go over test from last week
Fill out survey about how things are going (link to survey)
Continue working on 11.2 Lab and turn in today (if you were absent yesterday, you will start from the beginning with other students that were absent)
Unit 2: Phase Changes and Particle Interactions
Monday, 10.20.25
Receive review sheet (link to review sheet)
Grade 9.2 Assignment and answer questions
Notes: Phase Diagrams (link to notes)
Work on 9.3 Lab and turn in (due by tomorrow)
HW: 10.1 Phase Diagrams ws (link to assignment, due Tuesday)
Tuesday, 10.21.25
Pass back papers
Grade 10.1 assignment and answer questions
Notes: Overview of Thermochemistry Concepts Learned (link to notes)
Finish 9.3 Lab in class
Review for Test (link to review sheet)
Wednesday/Thursday, 10.22.25/10.23.25
10.2 Lab: Determining the Specific Heat of Ice Cream (link to lab sheet, due today)
Finish 9.3 Lab in class and turn in TODAY
HW: Study for Unit 2 Test (link to review sheet and link to Jeopardy to play in groups)
Friday: 10.24.25
10.3 Test: Unit 2 - Phase Changes and Particle Interactions (link to review sheet)
Unit 2: Phase Changes and Particle Interactions
Monday, 10.13.25
No school...Fall Break! Relax!
Tuesday, 10.14.25
Finish Notes: Temperature, Heat, and Phase Changes (link to notes)
Notes: An Introduction to Specific Heat Capacity...The Energy Contained in Cheetos (link to notes)
Work on 8.2 Cheetos Lab
HW: 9.1 Heating Curves ws (link to assignment, due tomorrow)
Wednesday/Thursday, 10.15.25/10.16.25
Grade 9.1 Assignment
Complete 8.2 Cheetos Lab and turn in
Notes: What is Calorimetry (link to notes)
Classwork/HW: 9.2 Calorimetry Practice (link to assignment with answers on last page, due Monday)
Friday: 10.17.25
9.3 Lab: Determination of the Specific Heat of an Unknown Metal (link to lab sheet, due by Tuesday)
HW: Finish 9.2 assignment, due Monday
Unit 2: Phase Changes and Particle Interactions
Monday, 10.6.25
Turn in Safety Contract if you did not turn it in on Friday
Turn in 7.1 PhET if you did not turn it in on Friday
8.1 Lab: Heating Curve for Water (link to lab sheet, due Tuesday with time at beginning of class to work on it)
Tuesday, 10.7.25
Work on lab report (due today)
Wednesday/Thursday, 10.8.25/10.9.25
Begin Notes: Temperature, Heat, and Phase Changes (link to notes)
8.2 Lab: How Much Energy is in a Cheeto? (link to lab sheet, due next block day with time in class to complete)
Continue Notes: Temperature, Heat, and Phase Changes (link to notes)
Friday: 10.10.25
No school...Fall Break! Relax!
Getting back
Monday: 9.29.25 (Periods 1-3; 52 min each; 11:16 am release)
Talk about next steps with open discussion about concerns
Handout "How to Study Smarter (Not Just Longer)" guide (link to guide)
Class activity: 7.1 "What Element Are You?" (link to activity, due Wednesday)
Tuesday: 9.30.25 (Periods 4-7; 52 min each; 12:13 pm release)
No class due to today's schedule
Wednesday: 10.1.25 (Periods 1, 3, 5, and 7; 80 min each; 2:55 pm release)
Discuss study skills
Redo Class activity: 7.1 "What Element Are You?" (link to activity)
Thursday: 10.2.25 (Periods 2, advise, 4, and 6; 80 min each; 2:55 pm release)
Go over Unit 1 Test
Discuss study skills
Lab Safety Day!
Watch Starting with Safety Video (link to video)
Fill out 4.2 Starting with Safety Video Guide and turn in (link to guide)
Go over Safety Equipment in the room
HW: Fill out safety contract (link to safety contract form, due signed by parent/guardian Monday)
Friday: 10.3.25 (All periods; 52 min each; 3:45 pm release)
Work on 7.1 PhET Simulator: Particle Motion and Phase Changes (link to assignment and link to simulator, due by Monday)
Getting back
Monday: 9.22.25
Continue spending time with loved ones and healing. Mindful Minute
Tuesday: 9.23.25
Continue spending time with loved ones and healing. Mindful Minute
Wednesday: 9.24.25
Continue spending time with loved ones and healing. Mindful Minute
Thursday: 9.25.25
Go to period 3 first thing in the morning (~25 min)
Attend two sessions of your choice within the school (~45 min each). The list of sessions will be available in period 3. My sessions will be "Making S'mores and Classroom Camping"
Friday: 9.26.25
Go to period 5 first thing in the morning (~25 min)
Attend two sessions of your choice within the school (~45 min each). The list of sessions will be available in period 5. My sessions will be "Making S'mores and Classroom Camping"
Please take care of yourself this week. Spend time with loved ones and doing what helps you.
Unit 1: Particle View of States of Matter
Monday, 9.8.25
Notes: Scientific Notation (link to notes)
Review for test with Jeopardy (link to Jeopardy Review; link to review sheet)
Tuesday, 9.9.25
4.1 Test: Unit 1 - Particle View of States of Matter
Wednesday/Thursday, 9.10.25/9.11.25
No Class
Friday, 9.12.25
No Class
Unit 1: Particle View of States of Matter
Monday: 9.1.25
No school due to Labor Day! Celebrate the labor movement and enjoy!
Tuesday: 9.2.25
Review for Unit 1 Test posted (link to review sheet)
Grade 2.3 assignment
Finish Notes: Significant Figures (link to notes) and practice
HW: 3.1 Significant Figures ws (link to assignment, due block day)
Wednesday/Thursday: 9.3.25/9.4.25
Notes: Density and Graphical Analysis (link to notes)
Perform 3.2 Lab: Density and Graphical Analysis (link to lab sheet, due Friday by end of class)
Friday: 9.5.25
Notes: SI Unit Conversions (link to notes)
Complete 3.2 Lab and turn in
HW: 3.3 SI Unit Conversion Practice (link to assignment, do on your own paper, due Monday)
Monday
Study for Tuesday's Unit 1 Test (link to review sheet)
Tuesday
Unit 1 Test
Unit 1: Particle View of States of Matter
Monday, 8.25.25
Grade 2.3 assignment in class
Continue work on POGIL (link to assignment)
HW: If you do not finish the POGIL in class, you will need to finish it for homework; it is due tomorrow.
Tuesday, 8.26.25
Turn in POGIL
Notes: Accuracy vs. Precision (link to notes)
Perform 2.1 Activity: Beanbag Toss (link to activity, due tomorrow)
Wednesday/Thursday, 8.27.25/8.28.25
Turn in 2.1 Activity
Notes: SI Units and Making Precise Measurements (link to notes)
Begin 2.2 Lab: Precision in Measurements (link to lab sheet, due Friday)
Friday, 8.29.25
Receive review sheet for next Friday's test (link to review sheet)
Continue work on 2.2 Lab and turn in
HW: 2.3 Measurement and Precision ws (link to assignment, due Tuesday)
Begin Notes: Significant Figures (link to notes)
Unit 1: Particle View of States of Matter
Monday, 8.18.25
Two more days!
Tuesday, 8.19.25
One more day!
Wednesday, 8.20.25 (Schedule)
Hey there 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!
Receive hand outs:
1st Semester Fuller Passes (see Fuller)
Get into groups of 2 or 3 and fill out 1.1 Demonstration: Paint Can Conundrum
Fuller's introduction and go over course syllabus and expectations
Go over website (Fullerland.us) and resources
Thursday, 8.21.25 (Schedule)
Phone Box Reminder
Brief discussion of "physical properties" and "density"
Perform 1.2 Lab: Experimental Determination of Density of a Representative Solid, Liquid, and Gas (link to lab, due today)
Friday, 8.22.25 (Schedule)
Phone Box Reminder
Brief discussion about what might cause differences in density between the states of matter
Perform 1.4 Lab: Investigating Attraction and Repulsion (link to lab, due today)
Begin work on 1.3 POGIL: Investigating States of Matter (link to assignment, Part 1 due next Monday)
Use remaining class time to work on Part 1 of POGIL or yesterday's lab
Welcome to the world of Chemistry! I’m really excited that you're taking this class and look forward to helping you discover how chemistry applies to so much of the world you know. Enjoy the rest of your summer and I'll see you on August 20th!