Fri Oct 30

Hey fellow scientists :P here's what we did today:

SNC 1P
-watched a bill nye video about the planets
-coloured and finished our planet booklets
-made an organizer for comets, asteroids, meteors and moons

HOMEWORK
none

SCH 4U
-amides student presentation
-practice for amides: p78 #8-11
-fun hallowe'en friday lab: making SLIME!!

HOMEWORK
1. finish oxidation lab for MONDAY
2. practice quiz #2 is on Monday
3. study for your unit test... its on Thursday

SCH 4C
-fill-in note on the safe use of organic solvents
-group activity on MSDS sheets for chemicals you would use in your careers

HOMEWORK
none

Thurs Oct 29

Hi guys, here's what we did today

SNC 1P
-worked on "guide to the solar system" booklet all period

HOMEWORK
none

SCH 4U
-took up esters lab
-esters daily practice
-Amines presentation
-practice for amines: p72 #1,2,3abcd p78 #2bcd, 5bde

HOMEWORK
1. Amines practice
2. work on oxidation lab
3. study for your test: p150 #1-7, 11-14, 17, 19, 20 and p152 #1,2,3,5,6,7,8,10abce, 22

SCH 4C
PINK day buyout!

HOMEWORK
none

Wed Oct 28

Here's what we did today:

SNC 1P
-took up yesterday's textbook sheet
-went to the computer lab and started working on our planet booklets

HOMEWORK
none

SCH 4U
-town hall presentation all period

HOMEWORK
1. work on oxidation lab (due next monday)
2. get caught up on missed homework

SCH 4C
-Quest
-ketones and aldehydes practice
-decided on groups for Friday's activity

HOMEWORK
none

Tues Oct 27

Here's what we did today folks:

SNC 1P
-finished voyage to the planets video
-KWL chart about outer space
-textbook reading about the planets (order and sizes)

HOMEWORK
none

SCH 4U
-esters lab
-worked on follow-up questions for esters lab

HOMEWORK
1. work on oxidation lab
2. follow-up questions for esters lab

SCH 4C
-took up yesterday's lab
-fill in note on aldehydes and ketones
-demo: what's up with the cup
-Practice Quest
-took up practice quest

HOMEWORK
1. study for your Quest (its tomorrow)

Mon Oct 26

Here's what we did today:

SNC 1P
-watched "voyage to the planets" all period

...we will finish this tomorrow

SCH 4U
-esters presentation
-esters in your food activity
-Practice: p66 #11,12 p68 #15 (top) and p68 #2be, 3bc and 4 (bottom)

HOMEWORK
1. work on your labs
2. any of the above not completed in class

SCH 4C
-took up Friday;s practice
-properties of alcohols lab
-follow-up questions for properties of alcohols lab

HOMEWORK
1. finish lab if not completed in class
2. study for your Quest (it's on Wednesday)

Friday Oct 23

Here's what we did today guys:

SNC 1P
-20 minutes to finish up STSE task
-Video: voyage to the planets
-got to be in the 350 picture

HOMEWORK
none

SCH 4U
-celebrated mole day!
-daily practice about carboxylic acids
-oxidation lab

HOMEWORK
1. get caught up on missed homework questions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2. start working on your lab (due monday nov 2)

SCH 4C
-took up yesterday's practice
-note on properties of ethers and alcohols
-practice sheet about ethers and alcohols
-reading about gasohol
-demos: burning fire and pouring fire

HOMEWORK
1. anything not completed in class today
2. study for your quest (its on Wednesday)

Thursday Oct 22

Hi guys, here's what we did today:

SCN 1P
-finished STSE task
-started the "voyage to the planets" video

HOMEWORK
none

SCH 4U
-presentation about carboxylic acids
-making organic models
-Practice: p60 #1,2 and p63 #3,4,5,7,8

HOMEWORK
1. anything not completed in class today... and get caught up on stuff you haven't finished!!

SCH 4C
-took up functional group practice from yesterday
-identied alcohols on key molecules
-fill-in note on naming alcohols and ethers
-Practice on blackboard for naming alcohols and ethers
-Small sheet to practice alcohols and ethers

HOMEWORK
none... unless you are somebody who still owes me an STSE project.

Wed Oct 21

Here's what we did today guys:

SNC 1P
-finished summative
-started STSE task (you'll have more time to finish tomorrow)

HOMEWORK
none

SCH 4U
-finished reactions organizer with yesterday's information
-Practice Quiz #1
-daily practice about aldehydes and ketones and then took it up

HOMEWORK
1. get caught up on practice that you haven't been doing!!

SCH 4C
-took up polarity practice sheet
-daily practice on overhead about polarity
-short note on functional groups
-making functional group flash cards
-circling functional gropus practice sheet

HOMEWORK
1. finish functional group practice sheet if not completed in class

Tuesday Oct 20

Here's what we did today guys:

SNC 1P
-worked on summative all period

HOMEWORK
none

SCH 4U
-daily practice about ethers
-aldehydes presentation
-ketones presentation
-demo: what's up with the cup
-Practice: p52 #5 and p56 #6,7

HOMEWORK
1. anything not completed above
2. abstract if not completed
3. study for practice quiz #1 (tomorrow)

SCH 4C
-took up fractional distillation handout
-electronegativity fill in note and practice questions a-f
-bending water activity with rods and balloons
-polar molecules note
-finished EN practice g-l and questions 2,3

HOMEWORK
1. tomorrow is 2nd DUE DATE for STSE!!!
2. anything not completed in class today

Monday Oct 19

Here's what we did today guys:

SNC 1P
-completed follow-up questions from friday's oil spill lab
-worked on introductory parts of ecology unit summative

HOMEWORK
none

SCH 4U
-discussed results of alcohols lab
-ethers group presentation
-PRactice: p46 #11, p48 #12, 13ab (top) and p48 #2,3,4,5,6abc, 7bcd (bottom)

HOMEWORK
1. anything not completed in class
2. abstract assignment
3. Start studying for practice quiz #1 (wednesday) here's some practice: p22 #1acdefhi, 2ab, 3bcd

SCH 4C
-review sheet of hydrocarbons with models
-group review chart of all hydrocarbons
-reading: fractional distillation text p193-195

HOMEWORK
none

Friday Oct 16

Here's what we did on Friday

SNC 1P
-Quest
-fun friday lab: oil spill clean up

HOMEWORK
1. none!

SCH 4U
-in the library all period for abstract lesson with Mrs. Menka

HOMEWORK
1. finish abstract thing for Tuesday

SCH 4C
-in the library all period for abstract lesson with Mrs. Menka

HOMEWORK
1. finish abstract thing for Tuesday
2. STSE is due monday

Thursday Oct 15

Here's what we did on Thursday

SNC 1P
-Zebra mussel wanted poster
-Practice quest
-took up practice quest

HOMEWORK
none

SCH 4U
-Daily practice on alcohols and take-up
-properties of alcohols lab
-Follow up questions for lab: p86 a,b,c,d

HOMEWORK
1. finish lab follow-up

SCH 4C
-French fry article reading
-blackboard note about saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons
-daily practice on small sheets and take-up

HOMEWORK
1. keep working on STSE (due monday)

Wed Oct 14

Here's what we did today:

SNC 1P

-talked about sustainability pennies activity

-easter island reading activity

-history of lake ontario cut and paste

HOMEWORK

1. study for your Quest (its on Friday!)

SCH 4U

-first student note on alcohols

-reactions organizer

-demo: burning money

-Practice: p41 #1,2abd, 3, p42 #4,5 p44 #7a, 8ab, 9ab

HOMEWORK

1. anything not completed in class today

SCH 4C

-daily practice on small sheet

-fill-in note: alkenes and alkynes and their reactions

-Practice: p188 #5cd, p190#6

HOMEWORK

1. none

Tues Oct 13

This is what we did on Tuesday

SNC 1P

-went to the library to finish on-line database activities

HOMEWORK

1. Study for your Quest (Its on friday)

SCH 4U

-mini-note on elimination

-daily practice and take-up

-mini-note on functional groups

-making a functional group cue card

-circling functional groups practice sheet

HOMEWORK

1. anything not completed in class

SCH 4C

-candle and spoon demo

-fill-in note: intro to organic chem

-Practice: p183 #1,2 and p188#5ab

-methane mambo demo

HOMEWORK

1. none

Fri Oct 9

Here's what happened on Friday:

SNC 1P

-went to the library for a lesson on online databases

HOMEWORK

none

SCH 4U

-2 daily practices

-time to work on Group presentations for Organic unit

HOMEWORK

STSE due monday!

SCH 4C

-whole period to work on STSE (due next monday, Oct 19)

HOMEWORK

1. finish STSE

Thursday Oct 8

Here's what we did today:

SNC 1P
-took up biodiversity and sustainability worksheet
-biodiversity pictures questions
-sustainability activity with pennies

HOMEWORK
1. none

SCH 4U
-alkenes and alkynes note
-practice: p18 # 5,6 p21 #7,8abc, p31 #1-3

HOMEWORK
1. all of the above practice if not completed
2. STSE is due Tuesday Oct 13th

SCH 4C
-Quest
-reading p178 of textbook, questions 1,3

HOMEWORK
none

Wednesday Oct 7

SNC 1P
-took up parts A and B of water pollution
-sustainability/ biodiversity reading

HOMEWORK
none

SCH 4U
-daily practice: alkane naming
-finished alkanes note: properties and reactions
-demo: the methane mambo
-Practice: p22 #1ac and 2ade

HOMEWORK
1. work on STSE
2. anything not completed in class

SCH 4C
-took up practice test
-group review challenge

HOMEWORK
1. study for your Quest!! (its tomorrow)

Tuesday

Here's what we did today

SNC 1P
-took up water pollution reading organizer
-finished part A and B of water pollution reading

HOMEWORk
none

SCH 4U
-diagnostic questions for organic chem (p4 #1,2)
-note: naming alkanes (did not do properties or reactions)
-assigned groups for "functional group" presentations
-Practice: p15 #1,2

HOMEWORK
1. STSE project
2. anything not completed in class today

SCH 4C
-time to finish lab and barium sulfate reading
-took up barium sulfate reading sheet
-time to work on practice test

HOMEWORK
1. finish practice test if not already completed in class

Monday

Here's what we did Monday:

SNC 1P
-journal article about bacteria taking over the world
-water pollution reading
-water pollution activity A

HOMEWORK
none

SCH 4U
-whole period to work on STSE project (due Tues Oct 13th)

HOMEWORK
1. work on STSE project

SCH 4C
-finished pre-lab
-predicting precipitates lab and follow up

HOMEWORK
study for your Quest

Friday

Hi guys,

here's what we did Friday:

SNC 1P
-Quest #1
-finished plants lab

HOMEWORK
none

SCH 4U
-Unit test all period

HOMEWORK
none

SCH 4C
-daily practice on ionic/net ionic equations
-pre-lab

HOMEWORK
none

Thursday

Here's what we did today:

SNC 1P
-Took observations for our experiment
-finished Oh deer activity
-some Quest review on the blackboard
-Quest review sheet: "buzzwords"

HOMEWORK
1. study for your Quest!! (its tomorrow!)

SCH 4U
-some daily practice questions on the blackboard
-group grafitti review
-time to work on review questions

HOMEWORK
1. STUDY for your Unit test (its tomorrow!!)
(see monday and Tuesday's posts for review questions if you don't have them already)

SCH 4C
-took up tuesday's worksheet
-daily practice: predicting precipitates
-Note: ionic and net ionic equations
-practice for ionic and net ionic equations

HOMEWORK
1. start stuyding for your Quest (its next thursday)
-note: