LARN 012 C3D4
Start the following in class:
1. One or more information sheets describing the format to be used for the Preview (Survey), Question, Read, Record, Recite, Rethink, Review method of reading your textbook can be downloaded from Google Drive. Use the PQ5R or SQ5R method to prepare a study guide for section 1.3, pages 20 to 23, and section 1.4. pages 28 to 32 in your chemistry text.
2. Journal entries should be always written on sheets of three holed 8.5 inch by 11 inch ruled paper in your spiral bound Journal notebook. The format to be used for all journal entries was explained in the assignment for HLARN 011A. The first journal entry for today, HLARN 012, is journal 12A, and should be written below the line drawn after the previous day’s journal entry. The first focus topic, J12A, for today is:
The starch paste is a mixture. In general, when is the term mixture used in chemistry?
[Hint: Use the index at the back of your chemistry text to find and study the pages in the text that explain the different kinds of mixture and which can help you answer this question.]
After you record your journal entry, unless you are just at the bottom of the page, use a pen draw a horizontal line across the journal page below the last word in your journal entry after skipping a blank line on the ruled paper. On the next line to the left of the red margin, put the day number for the next school day in a circle and write that days date under the circled day number.
3. The second focus question, J12B, for today is:
What elements of an investigation are needed to qualify the investigation as a work of science?
To make your response clearer,
- Begin your paragraph with a topic sentence,
- follow with explained instances, and
- close with a focused summary statement.
A useful format to help assure that a helpful paragraph has been written is:
- [Full sentence statement of your main point.]
- Then describe three reasons, examples, observations, facts, evidence, … that support your main point, saying something like: First .., second …, third ….
- Finally close by summarizing by saying something like: Therefore ….; Therefore, because ….; Thus …. , For these reasons ….., In summary …. ; or In conclusion ….
The following information may be of interest to those who have time left in their 45 minute study period:
1. Do the Home Inquiry activity entitled “Solid or Liquid?” that is described on page 6 of your text.
- Before you start you should gather up all the materials needed for the activity that are listed on page 6 under the heading of Materials.
- Home Inquiry Activities should be written on sheets of three holed 8.5 inch by 11 inch ruled paper in your spiral bound Laboratory Notebook.
- The Home Inquiry response sheet format for a home inquiry laboratory activity is as follows. In your Laboratory Notebook, after your Table of Contents, on a new page record your hand in number in a circle and first and last names. On the first blue line, to the left of the vertical red marginal line write the page number, p. 6, and centered to the right of the marginal line on that same blue line, write the title of the Home Inquiry Activity. In this case the title is “Home Inquiry: Solid or Liquid?”. Then skip a line and label your first response by writing R1 to the left of the vertical red marginal line. After you have finished the activity, use the Home Inquiry response sheet format to record your responses to the four questions asked on page 6 about the activity that you performed. To the right of the margin, write your response to the question in such a way that the question asked is incorporated as, for example,”When I slowly pushed my finger into the mixture, …. [such and such happened.]”
- For a diagram of the above mentioned layout, download and refer to the handout entitled Format and Instructions for a Home Inquiry Assignment.