Observation Lab: Day 2

Today's agenda for Chemistry was pretty much a continuation of yesterday's class.

We began with a small lecture from Mr. Lieberman regarding Chem Think, a website that teaches chemistry concepts through interactive, animated online activities. One of our homework assignments for today involves Chem Think, and that's to sign up [click here to learn how to sign up] and to complete the Introduction: Particulate Nature of Matter tutorial and question set. That's due tomorrow.

Mr. Lieberman also handed out a Particulate Nature of Matter worksheet and that is to work on as well.

After that lecture, we went back into our lab groups and finished up our Observation Lab.

Here are some photos to visually summarize some parts of the lab:

The first photo shows the main substances we worked with: Calcium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, and phenol red.

The second shows one of the reactions that occurred: bubbles and fizzing.

The third shows what Part A of the procedure looked like before mixed.

And lastly, the fourth photo showed what the substances looked like when mixed together.

After we finished our lab, we cleaned up and went back to our desks to work on the Post-Lab questions using our data. [Here is one of Mr. Lieberman's examples of lab data found on Moodle in case you don't have it.]

So that was pretty much what went on today in class.

HOMEWORK is to finish the Observation Lab, do the Chem Think assignment as mentioned earlier, and to work on the Particulate Nature of Matter worksheet!

Oh and the next scribe is...................................................Stuart P.

Good luck!