Wish

If you could have one Christmas wish what would it be?

What

If you could be an element what would it be? Why?

Metals

What are some uses for transition metals?

P

What are the three different types of P?

H

What are some important facts about Hydrogen?

1A

What is one of the 1A elements and what is an important qualitity for them?

Element

What is your favorite element and why?

Thing

How hard is it to make your element thing? What did you learn from doing them?

Element

What is your favorite element and why??

Element

What is your favorite element and why??

TV

Explain how a television screen works?

Periodic Table

Why do we need to understand the trents of the periodic table??

Electro

What is electronegativity? How does it relate to the periodic table?

OR.

What is the octet rule and how does it relate to the trends on the periodic table?

Trends

What are the trends in atomic radius for the periodic table??

RE

What are the representative elements?

Lavoisier

Who is Antoine Lavoisier and what did he do for science?

Meyer

Who was Lothar Meyer and what did he do for science?

Newlands

How was John Newlands? What did he do for chemistry?

State

What is the ground state of an element?

Bohr

Who was Niels Bohr and what did he do for chemistry??

Differences

What is the difference between the orbital diagram and the electron configuration notation?

A>P>

What is aufbau priniple?? How does it relation to electron configurations?

HUP

What is the Heisenburg Uncertianity Principle?

Pauli

How is Pauli and what did he do for chemistry???

Broglie

Who is Louis de Broglie? What did he do in chemistry???

Lab

What did you learn from lab today???

Planck

What theory did Planck develop and Einstein gave more information on? page 123

P.E.

What is the photoelectric effect? What would you use it for?

V.L

What are the colors of the visible light spectrum??

ch5

What is chapter 5 over?

Radiation

What is alpha radiation??

Difference

What is the difference between an alpha particle, beta particle, and gamma rays?

Lab

What is going on in this lab that we are working on yesterday and today???

Artistole

How is Aristole? What did he do or didn't do for chemistry?

Mosely

What did Mosely do for science and how is what he did important to science?

Millikan

Who is Millikan and what did he do for Chemistry?

Democrutus

Who is Democrutus? What did he do for chemistry?

Chadwick

Who was Chadwick and what did he do for Chemistry?

Thomson

Who was J.J. Thomson, and what did he do for chemistry?

Paperwork

What is your final choice on science fair projects? Tell me a little bit about it. We are filling out paperwork today. Workday tomorrow.

Rutherford

Who is Rutherford and what did he do for chemistry?

Goodyear

Who is Charles Goodyear? What did he do in chemistry? p92

Crookes

Who was William Crookes? What did he do in chemistry?

Atom

What is the composition of an atom? Explain each part.

Who is this guy

Who is Mendeleev?? What did he do for chemistry?

Dalton

Who is John Dalton and what did he do for Chemistry?

Elements

What did people believe made up the elements before Dalton's Time?

Theory

What is the atomic theory and who came up with it?

Important

When it comes to the atoms what part of the atom is the most important and explain your answer?

Atom

What is the structure of an atom?

Who is this guy

Who was Lavoisier and what does he have to do with the material that we are covering right now?

Mixture

How did you separate out your mixtures today? Was it hard or not?

Products

What are some of the green building products that you found while doing our research?

Green Houses

What does it mean to have a green building? What is your idea of a green house?

Lab

What kind of chemical reaction occurred in lab today? What did you learn from it?

Mixtures

What is the difference between a heterogeneous mixture and a homogeneous mixture?

Mixtures

What is the difference between a heterogeneous mixture and a homogeneous mixture?

Today's Lab

What did you learn from today's lab? What didn't you like about today's lab?

Mixtures

What are some ways that you can separate out mixtures?

The Law

What does the law of conservation of mass state and how do we use it in chemistry?

Ideas

What are some of the crazy science fair ideas that you found but didn't want to do for this year?

Science Fair

What will you be research to in class? Why is it the best project ever?

Tables

What are some of the diffucults trying to make your periodic table of elements?

Mixtures

What are three ways that you can separate a mixture?

Article

What type of article did you pick out yesterday? What did you learn from it?

Periodic Table

What is so great about the periodic table?

Matter

What are the different states of matter? What are there differences?

Chapter 3

In chapter 3 we will talk about physical and chemical properties. What is the difference between a physical and a chemical property?

Notation

Why do we use scienctific notation in chemistry? Should we just right the whole number out to be more precise or does it really matter?

Dimensional Analysis

Are we starting to understand dimensional analysis? Why is it important to do this type of math instead of just moving the dicimal spot?

Chemistry

Why do we have to do so much math in chemistry? Why can't they just tell us the answer to everything?

Metric System

Why do we have to use the metric system when working with science?

Easy blog

Lets do an easy blog today. What was something that you did over your first three day weekend?

Debate

Why do you think your group is going to win the debate today?

Lab

What was the point of the easy lab that we did yesterday? Why do we start with simple labs?

Human Genome

What did you learn about the human genome project?

Science Fair

Why is doing a science fair project important so important to this course?

How was your summer?

Well I hope that everyone had a great summer. I know that I did. Why don't we start they year off easy. Tell me something that you did this summmer.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Who is Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin?

Fritz Haber

Who is Fritz Haber?

Sir Derek H.R. Barton

Who is Sir Derek H.R. Barton?

William Nicholson

Who is William Nicholson?

Markovnikov rule

What is the Markovnikov rule?

Tonegawa Susumu

Who is Tonegawa Susumu?

Julius Stieglitz

How is Julius Stieglitz?

How does Molarity relate to concentration? (chapter 15, page 462) Please stopping coping the person that blogged before you because you don't get points for an incorrect answer.

Calculating Molarity

The equations for calculating Molarity is: Molarity (M) = mole of solute/liters of soulution. What is the purpose for calculating molarity of a solution? (ch15)

Molar Solution

That assignment will be due at the end of class so bring your questions and we are going to put them into the review. Now for today's question: What are the steps for preparing a molar solution? (ch15)

Gases

The question is can you pour a gas? Explain your answer.

Gas Law

I would like you to pick a gas law and explain how it could apply it to something that you would use in the summer.

Stoichiometry

Just when you thought stoichiometry was behind you, its back. What is gas stoichiometry and what is it used for?

Relate

Explain how all of the gas laws that we have learned about relate to one another.

Ideal Gas Law

What is the Ideal Gas Law? Why is it referred to as the Ideal Gas Law? And how does it differ from the other gas laws?

Combined Gas Law

Why is it called the combined gas law? What is the purpose of this law?

Earth Day

Well today is Earth Day! :) What can your community do to help keep the planet clean, this means to reduce, reuse, and recycle materials? Do you think the little things that you can do will make a difference or not?

Boyle's Law

Explain how Boyle's Law relates to breathing in and out.

Avogadro's

Avogadro is back. How does Avogadro's Principle relate to molar volume?

Who are these guys?

Who are the following scientist and what did they do, and how do they relate to one another. Boyle, Charles, and Gay-Lussac

Triple Point

Why is it important to understand the triple point for a substance? Also why is water used to set the normal for the triple point and the different phase changes?

Cystalline Solids

Why do cystalline soids have such different shapes?

Viscosity

Which liquid is more viscous at room temperature, water or molasses? Explain why and what viscosity is?

Gas and Liquids

After doing the labs in the past week. What are you learned about gases and liquids that you didn't know about?

Evaporation

Why does the evaporation rates change so much between different liquids? And how do evaporation rates rate to freezing and boiling points?

Gas Pressure

From the two labs yesterday's and today's what have you learned about the relationship between pressure and temperature. Why/How did the gas in the bottle change so much and what would have happened if a pure gas was in the bottle instead of just plain air?

Measuring Air Pressure

What is the instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure? Who can invented it and how did he come up with this theory?

Capillary Action

What is capillary action and why does it occur?

Feel the Pressure

Why do you need to be able to convert between kPa, atm, and mm Hg? Shouldn't they be the same thing?

Intermolecular Forces

Compare and contrast the intermolecular forces between ionic, covalent, and metallic forces.

I'm melting

What are the different states that you where able to get your marshmallow to change into? What was the best part of this lab?

Surface tension

What is surface tension and how are we able to lower surface tension?

Good Job

I would like to say that I'm very proud of all of you that went to science fair yesterday. Mr. Jung filled me in last night and great job to everyone. On today's topic. Give me a little high light for your element and what are the properties ect... Have a great weekend everyone..

Freebee

So how is everything going? How did science fair go? Just on update would be great!!

Article

Who is your Science Guy? Give a little preview of this guy and what he did.

Properties

How are compound, molecules, elements, and particles able to change from one state of matter to the next?

Dalton's Law

What is Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures and give an example of how you would be able to use this law?

Diffusion and effusion

What is diffusion and effusion and what law did they help to inspire?

Pressure

What is the unit for pressure and who was the man that it is named for? Why do we use this unit?

Your Idea

How are you sell stoichiometry to the class? Why is your idea the best?

Gases

Who was the man that develop the model for studying gases? What is the model, and what does it do?

Labs the past two days

Reflect on the labs that we have had in the past two days and how they have affected your comprehension of the material?

Question

When finding our limiting reactant why do we always convert grams into moles? Why are we not able to go from grams of a substance to grams of another substance?

Today's Lab

What was the reaction that occurred in today's lab? How does this experiment relate to observing a limiting reactant? What was your limiting reactant?

Steps

What are the steps for determining the percent yield if you are given the mass of the two reactants?

WHY

Why do we need to find the limiting and excess reactants and how do they differ from the actual and theoretical yields?

Air Bags

How do air bags work and how are they used to prevent car accidents?

Its Over

Looking back on last night what was something that you could have done differently which may have had a different outcome for your project. Also what was the coolest project that you saw which was not your own?

Changing water

Using water as an example explain who this molecule is able to change from one state of matter to the next.

States of Matter

What are the different states of matter and what are some of the characteristics that make them different from each other. Name at least two characteristics for each of them.

Compare and Contrast

How does doing a science fair project compare to doing research in industry, a university, or in a research facility?

Did you know

Did you know that there is a study which says that students that have done science fair projects are in general better problem solvers. How does doing a science fair project help you to be a better problem solver and how does it show you how to use the scientific method?

Help

The sophomores are doing the WOW science this year just like all of you did last year. What was your favorite WOW science project from last year that you would like to see done this year?

After the first today of presentations did you walk away with an idea of something that you could have done differently to help improve your project. Even if you didn't go to day you should have an idea of something that you could use to make your project better.

Preview

Why is your science fair project the best? If you don't think your project is the best explain why.

Percent yield in the marketplace

Why is finding the percent yeild so important in industry?

Why

Why do we need to follow the law of conservation of mass when dealing with chemical reactions?

Connection to Biology

Your body uses vitamins and minerals to create chemical reactions within the human body. What does the vitamin B-12 do for the human body?

Stoichiometry

After doing your notes yesterday, how do you think this chapter on stoichiometry relates to the two chapter that we just finished?

What a test?

Chapter 11 in now over and how do you feel about the test your just took?

Mole Ratios

What is a mole ratio and why is it important when writing a chemical equation?

Pictures

In chapter 12 there are a lot of great pictures of reactions why don't you look them and tell me which one is your favorite?

Limiting vs Excess

What is the different between a limiting reactant and a excess reactant?

Stoichiometry

What is stoichiometry and is it really so important to have a whole chapter on it?

Who are these guys?

Who are Herman Kolbe and Felix Hoffman and what compound did they make?

Hydrates

How do we name a Hydrate?

What is this?

What is Combinatorial Chemistry and does it do?

Percent Composition

If you where able to guess how do you think that we would calculate the percent composition on a compound.

Hydrates

What are hydrates and what can they be used for?

Molecular Formula

How is the molecular formula used to identify a new compound?

Grams to Atoms

What are the steps in converting grams to atoms?

Molar Mass

Why is molar mass important in converting mass to moles?

Mole

What is a mole in chemistry?

Yesterday's Lab

What was the coolest precipitate that formed during your lab?

What are the products here?

If copper(II)chloride reacted with sodium nitrate what products would form and what type of reaction would have occurred?

Reactive Elements

Which elements are the least reactive and which are the most reactive, and why?

Slowing it Down

What can change the rate of a chemical reaction, slow it down or speed it up?

If you could be

If you could be a chemical reaction which one would you be and why?

Having Problems

If you are having some problems with this chapter we don't you tell me about it. I'll see what I can do. And if you think this chapter is easy let me know too.

Aqueous Solution

What is an aqueous solution? How is it made and why do you need to know anything about it?

Science Fair

Is there something that you have done with your science fair project that was unexpected and just really cool, or at least to you? If not, at what stage are you with your science fair project?

Chemical Equations

Why do we need to balance a chemical equations? Is it really that important, why or why not?

Reactions that form Precipitates

What is a precipitate and example how it is formed?

Reaction that form Gases

What is a chemical reaction that you can think that occurs in your home that forms a type of gas as a product?

Chemical Reactions

What are the five most common types of chemical reactions that occur in nature?