Homework for 11-19 and 11-20

Hi everyone - this is coming to you from my house, since I stayed home sick today and will be out tomorrow as well. I think the flu finally caught up with me!

Today I left a set of videos and some work packets and colored pencils for the sub. If everything went according to plan, you should have had a quiz on noble gas configurations, and then watched episodes 401 and 402 of the Georgia Public Broadcasting chemistry course. We did several of these before - these are the videos with the bells that play when a chalkboard graphic goes up, and you take notes on it. There were some notes to take, some problems to complete, and a periodic table for you to fill in and color to learn about families/groups and periods, as well as some of their properties.

For A day classes, since I will see you next Monday, you have the packet to finish. For B day classes, since I won't see you until after vacation, you have the homework to eat lots of food on Thanksgiving and get lots of rest so you're ready to dive back into the periodic table when we return - I'll give that homework to the A day students when I see them on Monday.

Hopefully I'll be feeling better by then!

Thanks for checking here, and have a good night!

Mr. Rinke

Homework for 11-17 and 11-18

Sorry I didn't get this up until now - I wasn't feeling well the last couple of days and it slipped my mind.

Today we did a whole bunch of stuff, including:

1) A quiz on orbital box diagrams and Lewis dot diagrams.
2) We went over the Unit 3 test - Retests must be completed before Christmas for those who wish to do so.
3) We talked about the spectrophotometer lab and what is due for it (all of the questions in the packet need to be answered, as well as a graph made. The details of the graph were given in class)
4) We did a small periodic table puzzle, and I gave a second one of these for homework.
5) I checked and gave a grade for, and then we went over, the set of worksheets which were due today from 2 classes ago, as well as answering any questions on any of them.
6) I taught lesson 19. This took about 10 minutes, and covered the history and regions of the periodic table.

Phew! Lotsa stuff today - haha.

For homework:

1) There will be a quiz on Noble Gas Electron Configurations.
2) The periodic table puzzle - the back side of the one we did in class - is due.
3) The one worksheet after Lesson 19 is due.
4) The spectrophotometer lab packet and graph is due.

Most of these are relatively short - the only thing which should take a few minutes is the graph for the Spec lab.

Have a great night!

Homework for 11-13 and 11-16

Hi everyone!

 

Today we had a quiz on electron configurations (except for B1, who will take it next class because we had short periods today and I wanted to make sure they got to do the whole lab).

 

We also did a lab with spectrophotometers. The students received the packets in class, and completed three short mini-labs which were all utilizing the spectrophotometers to measure absorbance of light with food-colored water. Students who missed this can make it up after school after break with me or with Mr. Feiock on this Friday.

 

Homework:

 

Quiz next class on Box diagrams and Lewis electron Dot Diagrams - a couple of each. B1 will also take the quiz from today.

All of the homework from last class (look at the last blog post) is also due.

The lab report for the Spectrophotometer lab is NOT due... NOT DUE! Nothing is due from this - we still need to talk about it.

 

Have a great night!

 

Mr. Rinke

Homework for 11-11 and 11-12

Hi everyone!

 

Today we finished up Lesson 18. We started with a quiz on the arrow chart and the number of electrons each type of orbital can hold - this was announced ahead of time.

 

We then reviewed how to do orbital box diagrams, and learned how to do the noble gas shortcut for electron configurations as well as Lewis dot diagrams. We practiced these for a little while, and then the students got some time to work on homework.

 

The homework is:

 

Next class you will have a quiz on electron configurations - you will need to do 3 simple ones. You will get a periodic table, but if you want an arrow chart, you have to make your own.

 

For Tuesday or Wednesday of next week, you need to do orbital box diagrams and Lewis dot diagrams for N, Mg, B, K, and F. You also need to do the noble gas configurations for Ba, Cd, Ac, No, and Mo. Finally, complete worksheets on pages 117 to 123. There are some parts of these pages you can skip, and some different directions for one of them, so make sure to check with someone from the class for the updated directions - they are too detailed to type out here.

 

Thanks! Lab next class!

 

Mr. Rinke

 

 

Homework for 10-9 and 10-10

Hi Everyone!

 

Sorry this is a little late...

 

Today in class we covered Lesson 18 - make sure you picked up the next section of your book, since you won't have enough pages to complete this unit without them. You should have through page 169 at this point.

 

I also collected the homework from the article on the naming of elements. Make sure you drop this off at some point if you have not already.

 

Homework:

 

Quiz on the Arrow Chart and number of electrons each type of orbital can hold. You were given the questions in class that you will be asked - this is simply a memorization quiz.

 

Do electron configurations for the following elements: Be, Al, Zr, Sn, Cl, Os, Db, I - no box diagrams.

 

Have a great day!

Homework for 11-5 and 11-6

Hello!

 

And a special hello to all of you who took the day off to fight a few battles with a few bacteria or viruses - seems like we have a few more than normal today. Hope you feel better soon!

 

Today we took the Unit 3 test - you need to make this up when you get back. It takes about an hour or a little more, so plan ahead for when you can do it.

 

For homework, I handed out an article on how some of the elements received their names or symbols, and asked everyone to list 10 things that the article taught them about the names and symbols of the elements - stuff they didn't know before reading it. You can pick up a copy when you return - sorry I can't post it online.

 

Have a great day and thanks for checking in - might be a candy coupon type thing on here again soon, so keep checking back!

 

Mr. Rinke

Homework for 11-2 and 11-3

Hi everyone!

 

Today in class I collected the penny labs - make sure they get turned in ASAP even though they are second quarter grades.

 

I also checked the 8 worksheets which were due today - 90, 94, 95, and 104-108. Please see me if you weren't here to get them in the gradebook. Again, these are second quarter grades.

 

We went over the worksheets, and then I answered any questions about the upcoming test.

 

The rest of the game was a review game.

 

Homework:

 

Test Thursday/Friday - STUDY!

Flame Test Lab due Thursday/Friday

 

Have a good night!

 

Mr. Rinke