Questions?
What is a Ceramic? (~30)
🔥 Demo: Alumina vs. Aluminum
How do we name oxidized compounds? (~30)
✅Naming Game (~10)
✅Naming Practice (~20)
Words of the day: Ceramic, Ionic, Conchoidal fractures
...tell you how metals and ceramics are related.
Questions?
🔥 Demo: Lantern mantels & Shuttle tiles (~10)
Lab: Properties of Clay (~60)
✅Clay is a border (~20)
Words of the day: Refractory, Clay, Sand, Flocculation
...tell you how clay shows ceramic properties.
Questions?
Quiz: Clays and Ceramics (~10)
Lab: Properties of Clay Part 2 (~10)
Uses of Ceramics (~10)
Lab: Making Pottery (~40)
...tell you how to use ceramic properties to make a piece of pottery.
Relax?
Questions?
Lab: Counting by weighing (~10)
Moles and molar mass (~20)
✅ Bring me a Mole (~30)
✅ Moles and Molar Mass (~30)
Words of the day: Mole, Avogadro's Number, Molar Mass
...calculate the amounts of materials needed using moles.
Questions?
Hydrates (~30)
🔥 Lab: Making Glass Beads (~30)
✅ Hydrate Practice (~30)
Words of the day: Hydrate, Anhydrate, Glass, Desiccant, Dehydrate, Amorphous
...calculate the % composition of a hydrate.
Questions?
Types of glass (~30)
🔥 Testing glass - What makes glass so tough (~10)
Comparing Tempered vs Annealed glass (~10)
✅ Thermal Properties of Glass (~30)
Glass Recycling Research (~30)
Words of the day: Tempered, Annealed, Glass, Tough
...show you my bent, polished, and blown glass.
Questions?
✅ Glass Recycling Presentations (~30)
Words of the day: Compression, Tension
...show you my bent, polished, and blown glass.
Questions?
Quiz: Moles and Molar Mass (~30)
Celebrate Mole Day (~60)
Words of the day: Mole, Fun
...calculate the amounts of materials needed using moles.
Questions?
Lazers and Snell's Law (~30)
Lab: Snell's Law (~30)
✅ Snell's Law Practice (~30)
Words of the day: Refraction, Transparent, Translucent, opaque
...show you how fiber optic cables are made.
Questions?
✅ A History of the Light Bulb (~40)
Words of the day: frequency, power, temperature
...calculate the frequency, wavelength, and energy of any light.
Questions?
✅ Piezoelectric materials (~30)
Lab: Photoreactive Paper (~30)
Words of the day: Piezoelectric
...tell you how metals and ceramics are related.
Questions?
What is a Semiconductor? (~30)
Demo: Semiconductors
✅ Semiconductor manufacturing (~60)
Field Trip Logistics (~10)
Words of the day: Semiconductor, Band Gap, Photomasking,
...tell you how metals and ceramics are related.
Tour Broadcom manufacturing (take 1/2 day)
...tell you how metals and ceramics are related.
Questions?
Work Time to makeup your absence from Friday.
Questions?
✅ Ceramics & Glass scavenger hunt
...tell you what strategy I'm going to use on tomorrows exams.
Questions?
Exam (~30)
MC
FRQ
Lab Practical
🎬 Modern Marvels: Rubber! (~50)
...tell you how successful my strategy was.