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LARN 090 C23D2

Start the following in class:

1.  Writing in blue or black ink, place your hand in number in a circle followed by your name in the upper right white space of a piece of three holed composition paper in your learning log that hasn’t been written on.  Place the page reference for the problems to be considered to the left of the red marginal line on the first blue line.  Centered on the first blue line, write a descriptive title for the learning activity such as Section [chapter #.section#] Responses.  Before you write your response to each question or problem listed below, write its designation to the left of the red marginal line as listed below, followed by your response in ink to the right of the marginal line.

In your Journal Notebook write your journal entry on sheets of three holed 8.5 inch by 11 inch ruled paper.

  • In the upper right corner white space of each upward facing page, use a blue or black pen to write your hand in number within a circle followed by your name.
  • To the left of the marginal line, print J90 and circle it.
  • Each journal entry should either be at least a paragraph of exemplary writing and penmanship concerning a single topic, or be a concept map relating chemistry terms. Begin each day’s paragraph with a topic sentence, follow with explained instances, and close with a focused summary statement.
  • The required journal focus topic, J90, for today is:

a. Describe how chemical word equations and formula unit expressions are similar. Describe a chemical change using both kinds of equation to bring out the similarities.

b. Describe how chemical word equations and balanced chemical expressions are different. Describe another chemical change using both kinds of equation to bring out the differences.

2.  Doing ChemThink interactives are part of the core experiences for all chemistry students.

  • The ChemThink applications that are not on the ChemThink log on site are applications written in the Flash programming language.  The Flash programming language is not supported by the Firefox browser, nor the Chrome browser, nor the Opera browser any longer. You can, however, simply choose to use the Internet Explorer browser to run these Flash applications. An alternate option is to use an ‘Internet Explorer mode of browsing in the previously mentioned browsers or in the Edge browser as explained online at https://www.digitalcitizen.life/how-enable-java-all-major-web-browsers.
  • Using the Internet Explorer browser go to the non-log on ChemThink web site https://www.simbucket.com/welcome-to-simbucket/ to do the tutorial and question set on Chemical Reactions. 
  • First click on the name of the simulation to choose to do it.  
  •  If you do not have a copy of the worksheet that goes with this module, click on the provided link to the ChemThink worksheet for this module or, if that doesn’t work, locate it in the Student Resources > Handouts > ChemThink Formative Assessment Note Sheets folder. Download the worksheet, and print off a copy.
  • Place your hand in number and name in ink in the upper right corner of the worksheet.
  • Click on the Tutorial button. Do the Chemical Reactions Tutorial and take Cornell notes in your Learning Log (especially on anything that stumps you during your attempts at working through each page of the online tutorial).  Focus on understanding why the correct answer to each problem posed is what it is. Your goal is to have a deep enough understanding to advance to the following page of the tutorial.  If you do not attain that level of understanding, review some more, analyze some more, and try again until you succeed.
  • Record a response to each question asked on the worksheet. 
  • Click on the Problem Set button.  Try to do each problem in the Problem Set correctly during your first attempt at working your way through the problem set.  If you get a problem wrong, focus on understanding why each problem posed is answered in the way that it is.  Take Cornell notes, especially on anything that temporarily gave you difficulty.  Your goal is eventually to have a deep enough understanding to score a 10 out of 10.  If you did not attain that level of understanding the first time through, review some more, and do the problem set again until you have mastered the content with a 10 out of 10 score.
  • Summarize the main ideas of the ChemThink in your Cornell Notes and then place the Cornell Notes and worksheet in the Notes section of your 3 ring binder, and bring it to class.

3a. Use the PQ5R or SQ5R method to prepare study guide for text section 11.1 on Describing Chemical Reactions or go to https://socratic.org/chemistry to research the topics brought up in section 11.1 of your text.  .  Read section 11.1 in your chemistry text, pages 321 through 329, and as you do, create a study guide using the SQ5R or PQ5R method explained in class and on the distributed handout packet. Take notes not only on Writing Chemical Equations and on Balancing Chemical Equations, but also on Rules for Writing and Balancing Equations on page 327 of your text. You may record vocabulary entries in the body of your study guide, or you may check them off on the chapter 11 vocabulary list as you think about the meanings of the terms and add any notations to the vocabulary list for clarifications sake.

3.b. Writing in blue or black ink, place your hand in number in a circle followed by your name in the upper right white space of a piece of three holed composition paper in your learning log that hasn’t been written on.  Place the page reference for the problems to be considered to the left of the red marginal line on the first blue line.  Centered on the first blue line, write a descriptive title for the learning activity such as Section [chapter #.section#] Responses.  Before you write your response to each question or problem listed below, write its designation to the left of the red marginal line as listed below, followed by your response in ink to the right of the marginal line.

  • Study Conceptual Problem 11.1 on page 324 and then show your work for practice problems I11-1 (In chapter 11, problem 1) and I11-2.
  • Study Conceptual Problem 11.2 on page 327 and then show your work including tallies of all atoms occurring in the initial and final states for practice problems I11-3ab (In chapter 11, problem 3ab) and I11-4ab.
  • Study Conceptual Problem 11.3 on page 328 and then show your work including tallies of all atoms occurring in the initial and final states for practice problems I11-5ab (In chapter 11, problem 5ab) and I11-6.
  • After you are finished, check page R91 of the text and check each of those problems that you can by writing in either a check mark (√) or a correction in green ink as we do in class.  Some questions do not have a suggested response given.  For each such question, circle the number of the question in the margin of your notebook paper and check your response with that of your classmates when you come to class.

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

1.  Open the Unit Learning Objectives for Cornell Notes document, Press and hold the CTRL key while typing F to bring up a search (find) box.  Type in Chapter 11 in the search box and then move your cursor into the text area to the right and click there to see the first page of objectives.  Consider each chapter 10 learning objective as you proceed through the chapter with the aim of being able to demonstrate your understanding and ability to apply the learnings.  For now, study and take Cornell notes on objectives 4 through 9.

2. If you have not already done so, 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, erasers, and ear bud headphones:

• 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 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. Arrange for access to a computer and the internet.  You will need to use a computer and internet for this course.  You will be assigned one to use in class and at any help classes to which you attend and will need to use another computer for homework assignments.

• To use the district’s computer 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.
• 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 and Apache OpenOffice suites that are free, 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.) These office suites can be downloaded from http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ and www.openoffice.org/.

• If you do not have access to a 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.