Hon Chemistry 10-22-19 Chemical Formulas with Polyatomic Ions

HON CHEMISTRY: Great job today! Remember it’s like baby steps, first binary ionic compounds, and now, formulas with polyatomic ions. Begin learning them now! And practice, practice, practice!!

Another great idea, click here for a copy of the Hints for Naming Chemical Formulas Flow Chart, or find it under the Worksheet/Handouts Tab. Follow it every time you name chemical formulas!!


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Hon Chemistry 10-21-19 Chemical Formulas – Part 1

HON CHEMISTRY: Great start on writing and naming chemical formulas! What’d you think? Do-able? Absolutely!!

HW UPDATE – Do both practices for tonight, but you do not have to make a 100 on the practice with polyatomic ions. On that one, you need to get the names right, but you do not have to get the formulas right.

Today we concentrated on binary ionic compounds today with a look at naming compounds with polyatomic ions. Tomorrow we’ll write formulas for compounds with polyatomic ions. We’ll go kind of slow to begin with, but make sure to take time to practice, practice, practice, and learn it step by step. You’ll be as lost as ball in high weeds if you let yourself get behind! No audio today, so here’s a lesson from a few years ago.

Hon Chemistry 10-17-16 Chemical Formulas – Part 1 from Tammy Skinner on Vimeo.

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Chemistry 10-18-19 Classification of Matter

CHEMISTRY: Here’s a mixture that looks like it might be worth investigating – bacon caramel popcorn! I mean, I like bacon and I like caramel popcorn, but bacon caramel popcorn? Hmmmm….

So now that you know about mixtures, could you figure out how to separate one? Keep these notes handy!


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Physics 10-17-19 Newton’s Law of Inertia

PHYSICS: Remind me again why didn’t that pen go flying across the room instead of dropping into the bottle? Hmmm…..

So what do you reckon is the inertia of this car? Great start today relating mass to inertia! Now go forth and apply what you know to find the mass of your unknown!


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Chemistry 10-16-19 Chemical Properties & Changes & Energy

CHEMISTRY: So how do you know if something is a physical or a chemical change? Applications, applications! Make sure you can apply what you learned today. Ditto on the law of conservation of mass.

Don’t forget that we will do the thLab: Candle Observation in class tomorrow. Make sure you have a printed copy!


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Chemistry 10-10-19 Physical Properties & Changes

CHEMISTRY: So how do you know if something is a physical or a chemical change? Applications, applications! Make sure you can apply what you learned today!

Don’t forget that we’re changing the syllabus – we’re doing a lab, but not the one on the syllabus, and you don’t have to print it.


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Chemistry 10-9-19 Intro to Chemistry

CHEMISTRY: We’re finally starting what chemistry is all about! Here’s the lesson from Wednesday. Can you apply the branches of chemistry and types of scientific work? As you go through the chapter, make sure you have the vocab down, and be sure you’re able to apply what you learned each day!

Now….how would you describe this copper ore? Let’s talk about that tomorrow!


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Chemistry 10-8-19 Graphing Exercise 1 Recap

CHEMISTRY: How’d you do with your Google Sheets or Excel graphs yesterday? Make double dog sure you followed the instructions that I gave you in the video. I won’t accept your graph if you didn’t!

For Tuesday, bring your Google Sheets or Excel graph to me to check. While you are waiting, you can be working on the questions for the Graphing Exercise 1. Questions must be typed, but Question A and any work for calculations can be scanned.Have you thought about how you are going to answer question A? Could you use what you know about scanning??? Hmmm…..

And now, it’s time to put it all together! IMPORTANT: Check the project sheets for the exact order of how you turn in everything!! After you assemble everything in a doc, then make sure the heading and title are correct on the first page (do this like you would a lab report). Finally, you’ll save it as a PDF and turn it in two both your Google Drive Shared folder and turnitin.com.

It must be submitted by this coming Wednesday, October 7, 8:00 A.M. Again, check the Project sheets for the exact order of how you turn in everything!!ame>