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Today we started a layered curriculum to allow students to work with the information they received before break. This activity is self-directed and allows them to choose how to show what they know. We will continue working with this for the remainder of the week and students who do not finish in class will need to finish at home.
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Today we took some time to sort between different pictures and classify them as elements, compounds, mixtures of elements, mixtures of compounds, or mixtures of elements and compounds based on bonds and the colors of circles. Students also received another outline that further explains types of mixtures.
Today we started Unit 4 on solution chemistry! We are currently exploring the differences between elements, compounds, and mixtures both at the atomic level and at the macro level. We will move on to examining mixtures more thoroughly tomorrow and after Thanksgiving break. Below are the notes I handed out! Be sure to come by and take your test if you missed it on Tuesday! We completed a fun activity where students used the letters in "Solution Chemistry" to create other words. We then took these words and made them into sentences and related this to elements, compounds and mixtures. We will begin tomorrow by sorting pictures of elements, compounds, and mixtures to help us understand what they look like on a "microscopic" level.
This week we are working on reviewing for our upcoming Unit 3 test. This test covers a TON of material on naming compounds, knowing the differences between ionic/covalent/metallic bonds, understanding the conservation of mass and balancing equations. We have been working with small groups in stations to give me time to work with individual people. Please remember that if you need additional help, I am available during 4th period each day. Unit 3 test is TUESDAY NOVEMBER 15th.
Yesterday we worked on balancing chemical equations by modeling elements and compounds with pony beads and fuzzy sticks. Today, we converted that knowledge to mathematical balancing on paper. I am providing some links below where students can practice this concept online.
http://education.jlab.org/elementbalancing/ http://funbasedlearning.com/chemistry/ http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/gcse/revision/equations/02.htm |
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