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LARN 013 C4D1

Start the following in class:

1. Read the notes on the classification of matter handout at this link ClassificationOfMatterNotes  (also found in your Student Resources folder > Handouts > LARN 012-016 > ClassificationOfMatterNotes).    In your Learning Log place today’s month and day to the left of the red margin followed underneath by a number 1 for the first question asked on the notes on the classification of matter handout to the left of the red margin.  Write out question 1 to the right of the red margin and, on the next line below it, answer the question in one or more full sentences.   Answer the remaining questions 2, 3, and 4 in a similar manner.

2. 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 was explained in LARN 012. Do the Home Inquiry Activity entitled “Bubbles!” that is described on page 23 of your text.

  • Before you start you should gather up all the materials needed for the activity that are listed on page 23 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. 23, 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 “Bubbles!”.  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 23 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.
  •  Record your observations including any measurements in ink and bring them to class. After you have finished the activity, use the Home Inquiry response format to record your responses to the four questions asked on page 23 about the activity that you performed.

3. Journal entries should be always written on sheets of three holed 8.5 inch by 11 inch ruled paper in your spiral bound Journal. The format to be used for all journal entries was explained in the assignment for LARN 011.  The required focus question for today, J13,  is

  • “What were the effects, if any,of adding either table sugar, a.k.a. sucrose, C12H22O11(s), or table salt, a.k.a. sodium chloride (with additives), NaCl(s), to an aqueous solution of detergent that is used to make bubbles? [Hint: Consider both the size of the new bubbles blown and the length of time they remained before popping.]
  • 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 ….

After you record your journal entry, unless you are just at the bottom of the page, either draw a horizontal line across the journal page below the last word in your journal entry or skip a line and on the next line to the left of the red margin, put the day number for the next school day. Tomorrow’s journal entry will be recorded either under the ruled line or after the skipped line, or at the top of the next page if you are at the bottom of the page and no ink has bled through the page. Finally record the day number, date, and page number for today’s journal entry in the Table of Contents.

Recommended for those who have time left in their 45 minute study period, but not required of all:

1.   If you have not have a list of the most important vocabulary for each of the chapters that we will be studying this year, you can log on to the MNSD Google Drive and then successively select Student Resources > Vocabulary and click on each title of each chapter for which you wish to print the vocabulary for study purposes.  After obtaining the vocabulary for chapter one of our text, continue to study the meanings of the words. Place a – symbol in front of each word that you have to study more, and a change the- to a + symbol in front when you have demonstrated mastery over the word to a study buddy, parent, or friend.  Place each vocabulary sheet in the Notes section of your 3-ring binder and bring it to class each day.

2. In case you want to word process a Microsoft WORD formatted document using Google Docs, follow the instructions in the document entitled “To word process a Microsoft Word document in Google Docs.”