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LARN 001 C1D1

A.  Bring up a Chrome browser and click here for the link below that describes How to Enroll in Your Google Classroom. Use the information given on the class’ whiteboard, or accessible through the link below, to enter the proper code for your section of the chemistry course (01, 02, 03, 04, 05, or 06), not some other section’s code.

B. Bring up a Chrome browser and click on the link given in class to gain access to the Student Resources folder and everything in it on your teacher’s Google Drive. After you have the folder displayed in front of you, notice the folder name towards the top of the display.  Click on the downward pointing triangle to obtain a drop down menu. Then double click on the “Add to Drive” option to attach the Student Resources folder to your MNSD Google drive.

C. Make arrangements for daily computer internet access at home, at the public library, or before or after school or during study hall in the school library. Obtain the Following Required Materials for Chemistry:

1. One three ring loose leaf binder for size 8.5 by 11 inch three hole punched paper; make sure the binder rings are three or more inches diameter. This loose-leaf binder will be used just for chemistry, is not spiral bound, and is to be brought to class every day.   Please use a permanent marker to mark your name on the outside of your binder.

2. Packs of three hole punched paper to fit the above mentioned loose leaf notebook; 300 to 400 sheets of paper are recommended.

3. A set of five divider tabs for the above three ring notebook so that you can flip to different sections of your notebook quickly during and out of class. The five categories of records you will need for class are

1. Goals and Tables
2. Handouts
3. Class Notes, Section Reviews, and Formative Tests, Learning Log, Journal Notebook
4. Laboratory Activities, and  Laboratory Notebook
5. Project(s).

     Please label the five divider tabs with either those titles, or shortened versions or abbreviations for them.  For example, you might choose to simply write Goals on the tab for the first tabbed section of your notebook.

4. A three hole, grommeted zipper pencil case which is to be brought to class each day in the three ring binder.  High quality versions of the product are available at some dollar stores.
Also needed and to be stored inside the grommeted zipper pencil case:

a.  A five function calculator – nothing fancy!  You can find one at the dollar store that is a so called five function calculator which can handle addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and square roots.

b.  Writing instruments:

      • A pack of pens with blue or black ink for your use throughout the year.
        About four to six pens with dark green ball point pen ink (light green ink, marker green inks, and fluorescent green inks are not acceptable). The dark green ink pens are used to show the corrections that you yourself have make to your own work.
      • A few pens with dark purple ink for your use in placing emphasis on certain portions of your work.  You are not to use red or pink ink as a substitute. The dark purple ink pens are used to show the in class corrections that you make on another student’s paper as you part of your assignments.
      • A few highlighter pens that have different colored inks.
      • A set of dry erase markers.
      • A few number 2 hardness lead pencils and erasers for use in testing.

c.   To transport data home or from one computer to another get one USB flash drive of at least 8 gibibyte (GiB) currently retailing for less than $8 is needed.  Please use a permanent marker to mark your name on your flash drive so that it can be returned to you if you leave it behind in class.
d.  One pair of earbud style headphones with a 3.5 mm (1/8 “) connector, best purchased for $1 at a dollar store.

5. Five (5) three hole punched spiral bound  notebooks each having about 70 pages and having no dividers, and with three of them labeled with your name and a title on the outside with permanent marker. One notebook is to be titled “Learning Log” in which you can record our learning objectives, study guides, and class notes log. A second notebook is to be titled “Journal Notebook” for recording your progress in analyzing and responding to problems posed.   A third notebook is to be titled “Laboratory Investigations” for recording information pertaining to  laboratory investigations [instead of using scraps of paper]. The notebooks can be kept in your 3-ring binder. The third and fourth notebooks are to continue a titled notebook that runs more than 70 pages; you most probably will need them but if you don’t use them this year, you can use them in the future.

6. Grocery bag paper for keeping your textbook and laboratory manual covered at all times. (Book socks or heavy vinyl plastic are also acceptable.) Please use a permanent marker to label the outside of your book cover’s front and spine with the course name and your name.

7. You will need to use a computer and the internet for this course.  Arrange for access to a PC or Mac computer and the internet.  You will be assigned a PC laptop to use in class and at any help classes to which you attend, and will need to use another computer for some homework assignments.  [Use of a computer that does not allow you to install software on it, such as the case with Chromebooks, will prevent you from being able to install some school site licensed programs that are meant to be installed on your home computer to make studying easier for you.]

    1. To use the district’s PC computers and internet facilities during the school year, each year you must renew your agreement regarding the use of the school district’s Communications and Information Systems.  Turn in the agreement signed by you and your parent(s) or guardian(s) on the first day of school, or soon thereafter, to the librarian so that your privilege of using the district computers and network continues.
    2. If you do not have access to a PC or Mac computer with an internet connection at home, you can use one of the computer’s in the school library which is generally open during study halls, before school, and after school until about 3:45 PM.
      To assure your ability to go to the library during study hall, remember that you need to sign up online as soon as possible but, at the latest, before 7:00 AM of the day you wish to go.   In the past the library has often been open from 7:00 AM to about 3:45 PM Monday through Thursday.  On Fridays after school, when there are faculty meetings, and when the library is being used for special activities, the school library is closed.  So frequently check with the librarian for the current and planned school library hours during the year.
    3. Please try to arrange for some access to a computer with an internet connection at home with an installed office suite.  At present district computers in the high school have the Microsoft Office suite of programs installed which is a costly and proprietary suite, and which for our purposes is no better than the LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice suites that are high quality, open source software that can read and write documents stored at school in the *.docx Microsoft format.  (Please do not save chemistry documents in the internationally accepted standard *.odt format which older versions of Microsoft Office cannot read.)  One of these free office suites can be downloaded and installed from http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ or from www.openoffice.org/.
    4. According to our Marple Newtown School District website, MNSD students are eligible for the district site licensed Microsoft Office 365.  You can access your Microsoft Office 365 account by using your district provided username and password to log into the Microsoft portal via this website: https://portal.office365.com