Tuesday, January 12, 2016 Tonight's homework is the Giraffe sheet. Notes are here, including answers to the Shaggy sheet.
Monday, January 11, 2015 Our lesson taught how to find an empirical formula. The homework tonight is the Shaggy sheet.
Friday, January 8, 2015 Some answers to today's work here, incl the Mickey Mouse sheet answers Tonight's homework is to add enough to your cheat sheet to make it look like you worked on it for an hour. (Draw on any paper, as long as it is 8.5" x 11"). Don't finish the cheat sheet, just do an hour's worth or more.
Thursday, January 7, 2016 Tonight's homework is the Mickey Mouse sheet Brief notes are here. Answers were whiteboarded to the Calvin sheet; per class policy, the only record of the answers is the consensus you reached with your peer audience during class.
Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Tonight's homework is the Calvin sheet Some answers will be posted here tonight after 7pm.
Tuesday, January 5, 2016 Homework tonight is the Felix sheet Classnotes and some answers are here.
Monday, January 4, 2016 Welcome back from Winter Vacation. Notes are here. Homework tonight is the Elephant sheet.
Winter Break was December 19 through January 3rd (see the East HS school website)
Friday, December 18, 2015 We finished whiteboarding answers to the Spongebob Squarepants sheet. We took a quiz. No homework was assigned. Pikachu answers.
Thursday, December 17, 2015 Homework tonight is the Pikachu sheet Einstein explains Brownian Motion. video at 2:17 to 3:17 We are whiteboard presenting answers to Spongebob today. Answers to Spongebob will not be available online, per our usual whiteboard policy.
Wednesday, December 16 Classwork: day two of the bean counting lab Today's notes include answers to the Monkey Homework tonight is the spongebob sheet
Tuesday, December 15, 2015 Homework tonight is The Monkey Answers to the Hippo here. Today was day one of the bean mass lab (Relative masses, just like Dalton used when investigating how the hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen masses).
Monday, December 14, 2015 Useful numbers to help you complete the hippo sheet: Holiday lights have 13 lights per meter 500 sheets of paper is 2 inches thick Type A beans are 15 beans to every 2.19 grams Type B beans are 23 beans to every 1.30 grams 1.51x10^23 nitrogen atoms makes 5.6 liters of gas Tonight's homework is the hippo sheet Very short notes here.
Thursday, December 10, 2015 Tomorrow is our test. Study everything since November 16 on this page. Tonight's homework is the six page Review #2 (CCM sheet) It will NOT be checked -- do it to your own benefit. Answers here to the LemonLuLu and CCM sheets.
Wednesday, December 9, 2015 Notes and some Owl/Ovo/Drake answers here. Tonight's homework is review #1, Lemon LuLu.
Tuesday, December 8, 2015 We had a short lecture, and solved #5 from the homework, here. Homework tonight is the Drake Sheet.
Monday, December 7, 2015 We created weighed bean molecules for posters inthe hallway. Friday, December 4, 2015 Study your Hank Green video notes from today's video about Proust, Dalton, Lavoisier, Lussac, and Avogadro. You may watch the video here Know it well enough to be able to answer a few multiple choice questions where you have to choose the correct name of the scientist being described in the question. Today we (1) watched a Hank Green video here (2) took a quiz and (3) made an extra credit molecule-snowflake. There is no homework assigned tonight. If you want to make an extra credit snow flake they are due Tuesday. Snowflake instructions here.
Shown above: the H2O gas and liquid are both visible at the edge of this bubble of boiling water. Notice that boiling water does NOT have hydrogen gas in its bubbles!
Thursday, December 3, 2015 Notes and BunnyAnswers here. Homework tonight is the Vans Sheet
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 Notes here. Homework tonight is the Bunny Sheet.
Tuesday December 1, 2015 Here are notes & answers to today's classwork Tonight's homework is the Timberland sheet Video of chemicals combining.
Monday, November 30, 2015 Notes here. Homework is the AllStar sheet.
[[Thanksgiving vacation was here!]]
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 Lab: the chromatography of Skittles.
Monday, November 23, 2015 The only notes were the names of the equipment in today's lab. Today's lab was Separation Using Filtration and Distillation.\ If you were absent for a lab or a quiz, you don't need to make them up or do the homework. If you were here today, the homework is to write a simple, handwritten letter as described in today's lab instructions.
Friday, November 20, 2015 We whiteboarded the answers to the Ticket Stub. Our policy for giving answers on whiteboard day is that the only answers you will have our the consensus reached during the whiteboarding. There is no homework tonight.
Thursday, November 19, 2015 Homework is the Ticket Stub sheet Notes were about how to draw particle pictures of a heterogeneous substance and of a moving chromotagraph.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 Homework is the Spotlight Sheet Notes were brief [w/ answers to The Projector] You should know one or two facts about the following types of separation techniques: 1. Uranium centrifuges separate valuable Uranium 235 from the heavier, less useful Uranium 238 . Physical property that allows the separation to work: Uranium 235 is less dense than Uranium 238 and stays near the center of the centrifuge when spun. 2. Liquid Distillation [2] separates mixed liquids. Physical property that allows the separation to work: one liquid must have a different boiling point. The lowest boiliing point liquid turns to gas first and can be collected. 3. Chromatography separates mixed liquids or gases or solids. The substances are forced to travel in a fluid through paper, a tube, packed powder, etc. Physical property that allows the separation to work: Almost every substance will travel at a different speed because of its unique degree of attraction to what is being traveled through. 4. Filtration [ 1, 2] separates solids away from liquids. Physical property that allows the separation to work: one substance must dissolve and one must not. The dissolved substance will pass through the filter.
Tuesday, November, 17, 2015 Notes. (including answers to the metal+water sheet) Homework (the Projector Sheet).
Monday, November 16, 2015 We did a lab to understand the Q = m C T formula. If you were absent you do not need to do the lab. You do need to do the homework: metal + water LoLs.
Friday, November 13, 2015 No school for students
Thursday, November 12, 2015 We took a big test today: Test 3. It will be graded and in Infinite Campus by Saturday night. There is no homework tonight. There is no school tomorrow for students.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 Tonight's homework is Review #2 (The Dirty Socks sheet) Answers to the Dirty Socks are here.
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 Click here for... Washboard answers Ironing Board answers Class notes. Tonight's homework is Review #1 (the Ironing Board Sheet)
Monday, November 9, 2015 Today's homework is the Washboard Sheet. Notes are here
Muhammed's Bose Condensate.
Friday, November 6, 2015 Homework assigned: none. We took Quiz 8. It will be passed back Monday. Answers to the Shirt Sheet are here.
Thursday, November 5, 2015 Today's homework is the Shirt sheet Notes and answers here.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 Tonight's homework is the Washing Machine sheet. We took notes while watching the first half hour of PBS Nova Absolute Zero. A possible shortcut to taking these notes would be to just look at the script from the movie. You should know two things from each famous scientists we saw. Class notes from today cover heating and cooling curves: the energy forms that are involved in changing a cold solid to a hot gas. Today's notes also include answers to the Hangar Sheet. The first fifteen minutes of this online lecture I found on Youtube covers the same material we did in class today.
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 Homework is the Hanger Sheet (hint: one of the three example problems is actually 100% correct) Notes from today. We will not give "official answers" to the Clothesline sheet because we peer-whiteboarded them today. The answers you came to a consensus on will stand as your best answers to study from.
Monday, November 2, 2015 Homework is the Clothesline sheet. Do it well, we will whiteboard it tomorrow. Notes here have several LoL energy examples. Friday, October 30, 2015 We took the weekly tiny quiz. Homework for all classes is the Detergent Sheet (but I forgot to photocopy it for 4th period so they will have to do it Monday night, along with the other Monday homework. Today's notes are here.
"After the quiz, draw a flag for our hour:"
Thursday, October 29, 2015 Tonight's homework is read-and-markup this three page essay about 'Caloric'. Answers to the Laundry Basket were presented as whiteboarding by groups.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Tonight's homework is the Laundry Basket Today's notes include the answers to the Clothespin Are you stuck on the homework because it has p.s.i.? Try googling psi:
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 Tonight's homework is the Clothespin Today's notes, including answers to the Mousetrap sheet. Just for fun: list of famous experiments to find that 6.02x10^23 is Avogadro's Number.
Monday, October 26, 2015 Tonight's homework is the Mousetrap sheet IMPORTANT: PLEASE SKIP #9 AND #10 ON TONIGHT'S MOUSETRAP HOMEWORK. We didn't learn it yet! To solve tonight's homework PLEASE look at today's class notes.
thanks Michaela!
Friday, October 23, 2015 Today was Test 2.
Thursday, October 22, 2015 Answers to Review #2. We watched a man building a 30' tall water-based barometer [2] The homework is to study for Friday's big, 100 point test. Review #1 is the Teddy Roosevelt sheet Review #2 is the Barack Obama sheet.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 Tonight's homework is Review #1 ("The Teddy Roosevelt Sheet") Answers to the Jimmy Carter sheet are here. We watched a short clip [1] about the inventor of the barometer, Antonini Torricelli
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 Today is the last day of new material before Friday's test. Notes here. Tonight's homework is the Jimmy Carter Sheet.
Monday, October 19, 2015 Homework is here (you will need glue and four 11" strips of paper). Notes are here. A much larger version of today's demonstration is here. Today we tried to model this:
Using this
You should be able to explain how to crush a can using only air pressure.
Friday, October 16, 2015 Brief notes are here. Because Mr Genest didn't give an answer key to #1 - #8 of the Leprechaun, students stood up and presented what they thought the answers were and we discussed the soundness of the reasoning, though not its veracity. Today we took Quiz 6 (seven questions in twelve minutes). It will be graded and in I.C. by sundown, Saturday. There is no homework tonight.
Thursday, October 15, 2015 Today in lab we measured the size of a gas bubble at 0, 20, 40, 60, and 80 degrees C. If you were here, your lab report is due tomorrow. Reminder of the general policy during an excused absence: You need to make up homework or the monthly test. You do not need to make up a lab or the little weekly quiz.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 Click to see The Textbook Pages we read in class today. If you missed class, you need to fill in this FISH sheet of class notes, by reading the textbook. Tonight's homework is the Leperchaun Hat. You only should solve 7, 8, 9, 10, & 11 on it.
Monday, October 12, 2015 Homework tonight is the Baseball Hat. You are responsible for knowing the facts explained in Eureka solids video Eureka liquids video Do you know these definitions?
After Friday's quiz, we drew "a snake playing your favorite sport".
Friday, October 9, 2015 Answers to the Fez sheet. We have no homework this weekend. Monday we start to draw particle pictures of phase change and examine the role heat and energy play in phases of matter. There will be less math this week but plenty of math on our big test (Test 2) next week.
Thursday, October 8, 2015 Answers to the Beret sheet. We did a lab in class using the PhET States of Matter site and filled out both sides of our instruction sheet. If you were absent you don't need to make up this lab. If your absence was UNEXCUSED you do need to make up the lab. Homework tonight is the Fez Sheet.
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 Homework is the Beret Sheet Classnotes are here including answers to the Chef Hat sheet.
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 Class notes here, including answers to the Graduation Cap homework. Tonight's homework is the Chef Hat sheet This table is useful sometimes:
Monday, October 5, 2015 Notes here. Homework is the Graduation Cap sheet
Friday, October 2, 2015 Today we whiteboarded the answers to last night's Cat in the Hat homework. Then we took a quiz. There is no homework tonight. Your next memorized elements deadline is October 9.
Thursday, October 1, 2015 The slope of a graph of mass/volume equals "density". For example:
Thursday's lecture notes are here. The practice sheet we worked through in class is here.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 Ski-Hat answers here. HEY! LOOK! HINTS FOR TONIGHT'S COWBOY HAT homework HERE!!!!!!!!. We have a quiz Friday
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Homework tonight is The Ski Hat sheet. Notes are here, including hints and answers to Top Hat and Ski Hat
Monday, September 28, 2015 Notes here. Homework tonight, the TopHat sheet, is here. Are you stuck? Here are HINTS for solving the TopHat sheet.
Friday, September 25, 2015 Notes here. . In lab today we measured mass and volume of the four elements shown above. We posted our lab data at LAB DATA BLOG. If you were absent you need not make up the lab BUT you do need to make up the homework. Homework for everyone, absent or not, is here. Go to the Lab data blog to get points for your graph. The graphs are due Monday. [the photo above shows, clockwise from upper left, zinc, aluminum, iron, and silicon]
Thursday, September 24, 2015 We had a big test, Test 1. It will be graded and entered in Infinite Campus by sundown Saturday.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 Click here for classnotes on everything we did in class today. Tonight's homework is review #2 (the Gears Sheet) but it will NOT BE CHECKED. Do it for your own benefit. UPDATE: the answers to the Gears sheet are now in the classnotes file, above.
Tuesday, September 22, 2015 Notes here. Tonight's homework is the Sun Sheet (Partial Review #1) UPDATED WED, 5pm: Notes, above, now include answers to the Candle sheet
Monday, September 21, 2015 Homework tonight is the Candle sheet. (The front has graphing questions and the back has significant figures practice).
"On the back of your quiz draw something you'll be eating later today."
Friday, September 18, 2015 We took Quiz 3 today. We spent class time doing side one of the homework assignment described below. Homework: fill in both sides of this sheet using Table 1 for the front side and Table 2 (just use any fifteen data points) for the back side. Here is our list of Rules for Good Graphing. Here from today are answers to the Apple Sheet homework & a ROUGH example, done in class, of how tonight's homework graph would look
Thursday, September 17, 2015 Homework tonight is the Apple Sheet. Answers to the Unicycle sheet & Team lift sheet are here.
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 Click here for notes, answers to the Blender sheet, and some textbook pages. Homework tonight is the Unicycle Sheet
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 Answers to the Spinach Homework here. Tonight's homework is the Blender Sheet. Monday, September 14, 2015 Lecture notes here, including a few answers AND some pages from our textbook explaining today's new skill, Counting Significant Figures. Tonight's homework is the Spinach Sheet. For help learning today's significant figures rules try this YouTube video from Kahn Academy.
Friday, September 11, 2015 If you were absent for today's quiz or lab you DON'T need to make them up. The only homework is, students who were here had to fill out their lab sheet, including writing hypotheses and conclusions. Due Monday.
"On the back of your quiz draw a carrot eating a carrot."
Here is a list of everything we have done in here so far, in reverse chronological order. This list will grow ever longer until the cumulative final exam in January.
Thursday, September 10, 2015 Homework: Study for tomorrow's weekly quiz (there is a chemistry quiz every Friday you should always be studying for). Today's notes here, incl answers to the Typewriter Sheet.
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 We watched Top 10 Rules of Science Lab Safety and copied to our notebook the ten safety rules. Today's notes to study are here. 100% is quizzable on Friday. Study it all! Tonight's homework is the Typewriter Sheet.
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 What we did today: Assigned elements to memorize by Friday. Assigned the Cowboy Guitar sheet (finish side 2) for tonight. 1) We gave out a metric conversion table. You will have this available on Tests and quizzes now through September 30. 2) We took brief notes. 3) We solved Side 1 of tonight's Cowboy Guitar homework sheet as classwork. 4) We stood up with our group members and explained, with our whiteboard, how particles were involved in the methane paintcan explosion we saw last week. 5) We handed back Friday's quiz, which is graded, and in Infinite Campus now. The answers to the front side of the cowboy sheet are here. FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE, HERE IS A COPY OF TODAY'S METRIC CONVERSION TABLE:
"If you have time after your quiz, draw a giraffe riding a skateboard on the back.":
Monday, September 7, 2015 No School. Happy Labor Day.
Friday, September 4, 2015 Today we took brief notes. We followed up yesterday's TedTalk Video by trying to categorize comments about We worked in groups of four to create and then stand up and explain what happens when CH4 (methane) is burned in a paint can with a hole in the top and bottom. We took Quiz 1 today! What was on today's quiz: 1) Did you memorize the names that go with the symbols for the first five elements from the periodic table? 2) Did you practice the same algebra that we handed back yesterday? By September 11 you should memorize the names & symbols of the first ten elements.
Thursday, September 3, 2015 We took short notes [click here] We watched a 3 minute TEDtalk video about Growth Mindset, stopping at 3:14. As a class, together, we watched a paint can full of methane burning, taking observation notes onto scrap paper. Homework tonight: write a paragraph in response to advice written in June 2015 by last year's students. We gave answers to HW-1.1 homework* We gave answers to Wednesday's fake quiz*. Tomorrow's real quiz includes both of the things with asterisks above.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015 First day of class. Chemistry class is tough. Click here to read what last year's students said about chemistry class. I gave out a list of expectations for class today. Homework tonight: Do the sheet HW 1.1 Study for Friday's Quiz [see above].
“This adventure is made possible by generations of searchers strictly adhering to a simple set of rules. Test ideas by experiments and observations. Build on those ideas that pass the test. Reject the ones that fail. Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything. Accept these terms, and the cosmos is yours.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson - See more at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/this-weeks-sky-at-a-glance-october-16-24/#sthash.PGwji7ZO.dpuf
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