Chemistry Syllabus - September 2019
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Sept 2
Labor Day
No school

3
DUE TODAY:
ENTRY TICKET:
Get out lab safety rules
LEARNING TARGET:
Work safely in lab.
IN CLASS:
Lab Safety Video; equipment ID practice.
TO DO:
Review safety rules and prep for quiz.

4-5
DUE TODAY:
ENTRY TICKET:
Safety and equipment quiz
LEARNING TARGET:
Identify questions and concepts that guide scientific investigation
IN CLASS:
Gold penny lab - make pennies and consider evidence needed to show that they are gold, silver, copper, of another metal. What do you need to know? Begin to plan your procedure on a Google doc. You may use this as a template. Save a copy in the folder you are about to make.
TO DO:
Set up folder in your Google drive titled Chemistry-1Lastname or Chemistry4-Lastname and share it with me now.
6
DUE TODAY:
ENTRY TICKET:
Find your pennies. 1st period: Lab safety quiz.
LEARNING TARGET:
Design and conduct an investigation using a variety of tools to collect empirical evidence.
IN CLASS:
Composition of Pennies data collection
TO DO:
Begin calculations
9
DUE TODAY:
ENTRY TICKET:
SHARE YOUR FOLDERS WITH YOUR PENNY LAB DOC INSIDE!
LEARNING TARGET: 
Define density and explain how to calculate, given mass and volume.
IN CLASS:
20 min - Last of the density data collection - remember, you need both initial and finale volumes and a calculation!
TO DO:
Finish density results, graph, and conclusion so far. THis is a DRAFT because you will collect another line of data, but should look like a finished report. Remember format for ALL calculations!

10-11
DUE TODAY:
Density results and calculations; do you have a claim yet?
ENTRY TICKET:
Work this problem:


LEARNING TARGET:
Define and calculate specific heat. Collect specific heat data and calculate specific heat for your pennies.
IN CLASS:
Do you need another line of evidence to ID the metal in your pennies? Finding specific heat of a metal - and for your pennies. Specific heat data collection and calculation how-to.
TO DO:
Specific heat practice problems. Specific heat calculations in lab

12
DUE TODAY:
ENTRY TICKET
: Specific heat calculation quiz.
LEARNING TARGET:
Claim - Evidence - Reason
IN CLASS:
Report writing - get it done!
TO DO:
Final report is due FRIDAY.
13
DUE TODAY:
Penny lab report, in folder, by 3:00 PM Sunday.
ENTRY TICKET:
LEARNING TARGET
IN CLASS:
Lab writeup, questions, data analysis.
TO DO:
Dimensional Analysis practice
16
DUE TODAY:
ENTRY TICKET:
Write down 3 questions you still have about your lab.
LEARNING TARGET:
IN CLASS:
FINISH lab write-up.
TO DO:
17-18
DUE TODAY:
Lab. Seriously.
ENTRY TICKET:
LEARNING TARGET:
Conversion factors and dimensional analysis
IN CLASS:
Lab report edits; Dimensional Analysis
TO DO:
19
ENTRY TICKET:
Skim the inquiry Classification of Matter and underline any word you need to learn.
LEARNING TARGET:
Describe the differences between pure substances, mixtures, solutions, elements, and compounds using the terms heterogeneous and homogeneous.
Sketch and interpret particle models of pure substances, mixtures, solutions, elements, and compounds.
IN CLASS:
Classification of Matter - small groups
20
DUE TODAY:
ENTRY TICKET: 
Dimensional Analysis Quiz
LEARNING TARGET
IN CLASS:
Particle Models
TO DO:
23
DUE TODAY:
ENTRY TICKET:
In your notes, write an explanation of how to sove this problem: How many kilometers are equal to 450.000.0 millimeters? Exchange your explanattion with anotther student, who will work the problem EXACTLY as you explained. Get your explanation back and re-writte as needed.
LEARNING TARGET:
Sketch a particle model for a solid, liquid, gas, and solution.
IN CLASS:
Partical models and dimensional analysis practice.
TO DO:
Practice problems for quiz nextt class.
24-25
DUE TODAY:
ENTRY TICKET:
Dimensional Analysis Quiz 2
LEARNING TARGET
: • Explain how to tell that a chemical reaction has taken place.

Three basic laws describe how matter behaves in chemical reactions. List and describe each.

IN CLASS: Laws of chemical reactions
TO DO:
26
DUE TODAY:
ENTRY TICKET:
List ways to tell if a chemical reaction has taken place.
LEARNING TARGET:
Explain the contributions of J. J. Thomson, Robert Millikan, Ernest Rutherford, and James Chadwick to our understanding of the atom.
IN CLASS:
Interpret models of these experiments, noting the observations, results and significance, and the modifications to our understtanding of the model of an atom.
TO DO: Complete the chart.
27
DUE TODAY:
ENTRY TICKET:
LEARNING TARGET:
Describe the subatomic structure of atoms, ions, and isotopes and explain the difference.
IN CLASS:
Inside an Atom
TO DO:
30
DUE TODAY:
ENTRY TICKET:
LEARNING TARGET
IN CLASS
:  Finish Inside an Atom, if necessary
TO DO:
       
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