Friday Feb 27

Hi folks, here's what we did today:

SCH 4U
-Are you ready?? p4 #1,2
-Note: introduction to organic chem (alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, aromatics)
-Practice: p15 #1,2 p18 #5,6 p21 #7, 8abc

HOMEWORK
1. any of the practice that wasn't completed in class
2. work on your lab (due wed mar 4)

SCH 4C
-more practice for predicting precipitates
-Fun friday lab: making borax snowflakes

HOMEWORK:
1. start studying for your unit test (next thurs)

SNC 1D4
-drew a large scale diagram of our solar system to use as a note template for the presentations
-presentations on planets

HOMEWORK
1. the 3 groups that did not go today MUST be ready to present on monday!!
2. start studying for your planet quiz (tuesday)

Thurs Feb 26

Hey folks, here's what we did today:

SCH 4U
-wrote unit test #1

HOMEWORK
1. work on your lab (due next wed)

SCH 4C
-Another practice sheet on balancing equations
-took up practice sheet
-Reviewed how to use the solubility table
-finished examples from yesterday's note and took them up
-time to work up p57 #1 and p62 #1,2

HOMEWORK
1. finish practice questions p57 #1 and p62 #1,2
2. remember to hand in your lab if you haven't already

SNC 1D4
-Full period to work on planet presentations

HOMEWORK
1. make sure you are ready to do your presentation tomorrow!

Wed Feb 25

Hi guys, here's what we did today:

SCH 4U
-graffitti review of all the main topics of the unit in groups
-Time to work on Test review/study for the test

HOMEWORK
1. study for your test! (it's tomorrow!... see yesterday's post for review questions)
2. your lab is due next wed

SCH 4C
-A couple word equations for writing formulas/balancing practice
-Balancing and types of reactions practice in groups
-introduction to predicting precipitates fill-in note

HOMEWORK
1. your lab is due tomorrow!

SNC 1D4
-Went to the library to do the second activity with Mme Menka

HOMEWORK
1. if you don't think that tomorrow's period will be enough time to get your presentation finished you should be working on it tonight and tomorrow night

Tues Feb 24

Hi guys, here's what we did today:

SCH 4U
-A couple daily practice questions about the crystal structure of solids on overhead
-Lab: atomic structure and properties
-time to work on lab follow-up

HOMEWORK
1. study for your unit test (it's on thursday!)
2. work on your lab report (due next wed, March 4th)

SCH 4C
-Fill-in note and human demo on types of reactions
-Types of reactions practice sheet
-Balancing equations mini-note
-balancing equations practice

HOMEWORK
1. remember that last Friday's lab is due on thursday

SNC 1D4
-Talked about planet presentations
-Should you travel to your planet Risk Analysis
-Time to start working on planet presentations

HOMEWORK
1. work on your planet presentation if you don't think that thursday's period will be enough-- you will be presenting on Friday

Mon Feb 23

Hi guys, here's what we did today:

SCH 4U
-Unit 1 Quiz 2
-Note: Crystal structure of solids
-Practice: p273 #2,3,4,5,7

HOMEWORK
1. any of the above that was not completed in class
2. study for your unit test (thurs) this will help: p286 #24-40 and p288 #9,10, 13-16, 19-23, 25, 29, 33bcd

SCH 4C
-Unit 1 quiz 2
-finished friday's lab
-balancing equations/types of reactions diagnostic

HOMEWORK
1. Friday's lab is due this thursday if you didn't finish it in class today

SNC 1D4
-learned a quick phrase to help us remember the order of the planets
-space technologies jigsaw

HOMEWORK
1. make sure that all your planet research is done (you will be working on your presentations tomorrow)
2. make sure that you have all the technology information from your group today so that you can use that information tomorrow

Fri Feb 20

Hi guys, here's what we did on Friday:

SCH 4U
-took up intermolecular forces reading organizer
-did a quick daily practice question on the blackboard
-Short note on predicting boiling points
-Practice : p260 #4,5 and p266 #4,5,6

HOMEWORK
1. study for your quiz (monday)... here are some extra practice questions if you want them: p281 #1,3,5,6,8,11-14,16-18 and p282 #3,4,8,9,10,14,17,19
2. start stuyding for your unit test (thursday)
3. complete any of the above practice questions if they were not completed in class

SCH 4C
-Looked at the "carbon tower"we made on thursday
-Practice Quiz on naming and lewis diagrams
-took up the practice quiz
-started the lab on classifying solids using physical properties

HOMEWORK
1. study for your quiz! (Monday)

SNC 1D4
-Spent the whole period researching our planets... this is the last in-class day for research.

HOMEWORK
1. finish planet research if it wasn't completed in class

Thurs Feb 19

Hi guys! Here's what we did today

SCH 4U
-took up VSEPR chart from tuesday
-reviewed yesterday's notes
-small practice sheet on determining molecular polarity (handout #23, 24 only)
-Reading organizer using pages 257-262 (Intermolecular forces)
-Practice: p260 #1,2,3bc and p264 #9

HOMEWORK
1. study for your quiz (monday) and test (next thursday)
2. any of the above that was not completed in class

SCH 4C
-daily practice on the blackboard
-note on naming covalent compounds
-demo: glucose (a covalent compound) mixed with sulpuric acid
-practice sheet: naming covalent compounds

HOMEWORK
1. study for your quiz (monday)

SNC 1D4
-Diagram to practice labelling the order of the planets
-got into our planet research groups
-reseached our planets using laptops and library books

HOMEWORK
1. none!... unless you were away on tuesday and then you have a "carte conceptuelle" to do

Wed feb 18

Hi guys, here's what you did on Wednesday with the supply. Sorry for the late post.

SCH 4U
-Small practice sheet to review lewis diagrams and shapes of molecules
-took up practice sheet
-note: polar bonds
-practice: p253 #1-3
-note: polar molecules: p256 #8 and p256 #1 (bottom)

HOMEWORK
1. study for your quiz (monday)
2. complete any questions that weren't finished in class

SCH 4C
-quick daily practice about ionic naming and properties of ionic/covalent molecules
-worksheet to practice lewis diagrams for ionic and covalent molecules
-reading activity about morphine

HOMEWORK
1. study for your quiz (monday)

SNC 1D4
-in the library doing website activities with Mme Menka

HOMEWORK
1. none!

Tues Feb 17

Hi guys, here's what we did today:

SCH 4U
- a couple daily practice questions about pi and sigma bonds
-Very short note on VSEPR
-VSEPR worksheet: drawing and building models

HOMEWORK
1. any of the above that was not completed in class

SCH 4C
-Daily practice on blackboard of naming ionic compounds
-Note: properties of covalent compounds and how to draw them
-Practice sheet: Lewis diagrams with models

HOMEWORK
1. anything you didn't finish in class

SNC 1D4
-20 minutes to work on a concept map (aka carte conceptuelle) about YOU! (if you were away today then you should try to do this for homework tonight)
-Drawing a diagram of our solar system
-Survey: which planet would you travel to?
-Space terminology worksheet: what do you already know about space?
-More time to finish concept map (aka carte conceptuelle)

HOMEWORK
1. finish your carte conceptuelle so that you can hand it in for checking tomorrow

Fri Feb 13

Hi guys! Here's what we did today:

SCH 4U
-Daily practice on blackboard about lewis diagrams and hybridization
-Note: valence bond theory part 2!
-Practice: p238 #18,20 and p239 #25,26,28

HOMEWORK
1. any of the above that was not completed in class

SCH 4C
-Wrote quiz #1
-Fun lab: candy chromatograpy
-Practice sheet on ionic naming (while waiting for lab results)

HOMEWORK
1. none!

SNC 1D4
-compared concept maps and mind maps with a Venn diagram
-Concept attainment sheet to compare descriptive and "cause and effect" linking words
-Linking word practice sheet #1
-Linking work practice sheet #2

HOMEWORK
1. linking word practice sheet #2 if it was not completed in class

Thurs Feb 12

Hey guys, here's what we did today:

SCH 4U
-Quiz #1
-Note: Valence bond theory
-Practice: p232 #1,3,4

HOMEWORK
1. any of the above that wasn't completed in class

SCH 4C
-Took up electrolytes worksheet
-Fill-in note: Naming ionic compounds
-Practice sheet: naming ionic compounds
-Storytime!

HOMEWORK
1. Study for your quiz! ...it's tomorrow!

SNC 1D4
-Finished writing the good copy of the method for our little experiment
-Wrote up the conclusions for our little experiment
-went to the library to do our option sheets

HOMEWORK
1. none!

Wed Feb 11

Hi guys, I was away today with the swim team but here's what happened at school:

SCH 4U
-Time to work on review for the quiz: p219 #1-11, 14-19 and p220 #3,5,6,9,10,12,13,14,15
-Read pages 231-234

HOMEWORK
1. any of the above that was not completed in class
2. study for your quiz!

SCH4C
-Daily practice on a small sheet to review yesterday's lesson
-Reading and questions: "What is an electrolyte"
-p71 #1a, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12... not sure if you guys got to this

HOMEWORK
1. get your forms signed

SNC 1D4
-you should have finished the "voyage to the planets" video

HOMEWORK
1. none!

Tues Feb 10

Hi guys, here's what we did today:

SCH 4U
-A couple daily practice questions on the blackboard
-Review basic lewis diagrams using table 1 on page 226
-Note: Lewis diagrams
-Practice: p227 #4,5 p229 #10, 12 p230 #3

HOMEWORK
1. any of the above that was not completed in class
2. study for your quiz (thursday)

SCH 4C
-Lewis diagrams practice
-Fill-in note: formation of ionic compounds
-Practice: p 35 #2,5,6,7
-Storytime

HOMEWORK
1. get your forms signed if you haven't already

SNC 1D4
-Finished Hypothesis and rough method
-Learning styles quizes
-Data collection for learning styles quizes
-worked on good copy of method

HOMEWORK
1. none!

Mon Feb 9

Hey guys, this is what we did today:

SCH 4U
-Daily practice of electron configurations and shorhand electron configurations on the blackboard
-Group work using pages 194-196 to understand ion charges, magnetism and anomalies
-Practice questions: p197 #7-14

HOMEWORK
1. any of the above that was not completed in class
2. study for your first quiz (thursday)

SCH 4C
-Took up the "rainbow moments" lab
-Group work to learn how spectroscopy is used in our everyday lives! (reading using pages 25-28)
-Short note: Lewis diagrams

HOMEWORK
1. get your forms signed if you haven't already

SNC 1D4
-I was away with the swim team for most of the period so you started the video: "voyage to the planets". You will finish it on Wednesday

HOMEWORK
1. get your forms signed if you haven't already

Fri Feb 6th

Hi guys, here's what we did on Friday

SCH 4U
-Daily practice to review quantum numbers (#5,6 on handout)
-discussion of periodic trends (handout)
-Note: electron configurations and shorthand form
-Practice: p194 #6-11

HOMEWORK
1. any of the above that was not completed in class

SCH 4C
-20 minutes to finish up identifying mystery gases lab
-Note: the bohr model of the atom
-Lab: flame tests
-time to work on follow up questions for the lab

HOMEWORK
1. get your forms signed!

SNC 1D4
-took up last night's homework
-re-wrote our stick-man method
-Journal entry: describe a time when you learned something really well
-Introduction to the summative format: question and hypothesis

HOMEWORK
1. get your forms signed!

Thurs feb 5

Hi guys, here's what we did today:

SCH 4U
-Note: Quantum numbers
-Quantum numbers practice sheet/working on option sheets
-blew up a gummi bear
-Note: energy-level diagrams
-Practice: p191 #2-4

HOMEWORK
1. get your signed forms in for tomorrow
2. any practice that was not completed in class

SCH 4C
-Classified candle statements into observations and inferences
-did question 1 on page 12
-blew up a gummi bear and made observations/inferences about it
-small note on the electromagnetic spectrum
-mini lab: identifying line spectra

HOMEWORK
1. get those forms signed so that you can do a lab tomorrow!

SNC 1D4
-Took up yesterday's MCR (variables) practice sheet
-Question of the day about variables
-The stick man method activity
-Note: writing methods
-Practice: writing methods

HOMEWORK
1. please ensure that your signed forms are in for tomorrow
2. finish the method practice sheet

Wed Feb 4

Hi folks, here's what we did today:

SCH 4U
-a little practice sheet on atomic structure (protons, neutrons, electrons for atoms and ions)
-reviewed yesterday's note (Bohr theory)
-Gas discharge demo
-Note: the problem with the Bohr model
-practice questions: p180 #8,9
-reading: p181-184

HOMEWORK
1. get those forms signed by Friday!
2. any of the above that was not completed in class

NB: here is a link to our course website for the notes: http://www.chatt.hdsb.ca/~smallbonel/

SCH 4C
-Finished yesterday's grade 9 and 10 review activity
-10 statements about a burning candle
-mini-note: observation versus inference
-Practice: p11 #b (I wrote this on the blackboard)

HOMEWORK
1. get those forms signed by Friday! (...because you want to do a lab on Friday right??!!)

SNC 1D4
-ackward game
-Journal entry: what are your curious about
-The coke versus pepsi challenge
-Note: variables
-Worksheet: "identification des variables"

HOMEWORK
1. get those forms signed by friday!!
2. finish "identification des variables" if it was not completed in class

Tuesday Feb 3

Hi folks, here's what we did today:

SCH 4U (university chem)
-Collected diagnostics and forms, distributed textbooks
-ackward game
-Group work: review of the main ideas of Dalton, Thompson and Bohr
-Note: "origins of the quantum theory"
-Practice: p173 #4, 6ab and and p180 #4ab

HOMEWORK
1. get your forms signed!
2. finish any practice that was not completed in class

SCH 4C (college chem)
-collected diagnostics and forms
-ackward game
-WHMIS worksheet
-colouring the periodic table
-group work to review grade 9 and 10 chemistry

HOMEWORK
1. get your forms signed!!

SNC 1D4 (grade 9 immersion science)
-collected forms
-a little field trip to the science office
-Human bingo
-Activity: reading and thinking about curiosity quotes
-Fun quiz: "Quel est ton niveau de curiosite?"
-note: good questions and a little practice

HOMEWORK
1. get your forms signed!!

SEMESTER 2: welcome/bienvenue!

Hi eveybody! Here's what we did today:

SCH 4U (grade 12 university chemistry)
-attendance and seating
-Course outline and student contracts (please get these signed by friday)
-Stickies and course survey
-4U- "style" human bingo
-Grade 11 review booklet

HOMEWORK
1. get those forms signed and back to me for friday so we can start doing labs!
2. do as much you can of the grade 11 review booklet (I want to see how much you guys remember)

SCH 4C (grade 12 college chemistry)
-attendance and seating
-Class rules
-Course outline and student contracts
-stickies and course survey
-Human bingo icebreaker game
-lab orientation worksheet

HOMEWORK:
1. get your forms signed by friday please so we can start doing labs!

SNC 1D4 (grade 9 french immersion science)
-attendance and seating plan
-"one unique thing" on stickies
-course outline and student contracts
-class rules and procedures
-filling out of student information sheets
-getting to know eachother game

HOMEWORK:
1. get your student contracts/safety contracts signed
2. ask your parent(s) to read this information and then send me an e-mail me from their e-mail account. There will be prizes for the first students to do their homework! Note: my e-mail address is smallbonel@hdsb.ca