Assignments for Week Seven - Molecular Weight

Blog assignments for this week:

• Discover your "Alkali Earth Metal of the Week” and post a brief description
• Test your understanding of hypotheses – try Avogadro's Hypothesis and report back on your findings
• What exactly is a Mole? - Post your review of this link
  
• Post a comment to a classmate’s blog

Check out the following links:

http://www.carlton.srsd119.ca/chemical/molemass/avogadro.htm
Avogadro's Hypothesis

http://digitalfire.com/4sight/education/what_is_a_mole_checking_out_the_mole_111.html
What is a Mole, Checking Out the Mole

http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Humor/Dihydogen-monoxide.html
Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide


* Plus, an Extra Credit Assignment! *

Post an update to the "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" article

Mid-term Paper - due 3rd March

Choose one Chemistry topic that particularly interests you from the material presented in class during the first half of this term.

Prepare a Concept Map with this topic in the center, developing linkages to the Chemistry curriculum.

Compose a short paragraph or two explaining why you chose this particular topic for your paper.

Paper due date: Wednesday, 3rd March

Assignments for Week Six - Electrochemistry and Alchemy

Blog assignments for this week:

• Discover your “Halogen of the Week” and post a brief description
• Try out one of the Science Toys and post your results - an Extra Credit Assignment!
  
• Alchemy – science, magic, art – or all three?
• Post a comment to a classmate’s blog

Check out the following links:

http://www.pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2005/03/science_toys.html
Science Toys
Learn how to make toys at home with common household materials, often in only a few minutes, that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles. Some examples: a plastic hydrogen bomb (!), building a hydrogen fuel cell, simple heat engines, a film can cannon, a metal that melts in hot water, a Bernoulli levitation ball, the impossible kaleidoscope and much more.

http://www.goldenelixir.com/jindan/jindan_intro.html
A Short Introduction to Chinese Alchemy

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/home.html
The Alchemy Web Site

Assignments for Week Five - The Chemistry of Color and Nutrition

Blog assignments for this week:

• Discover your “Inert Gas of the Week” and post a brief description
• Explore the colors of foods in your own kitchen – report on your findings.
• Examine the links below and post a discovery you make there
• Post a comment to a classmate’s blog

Check out the following links:

http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/property/color.htm
WHAT IS IMPORTANT ABOUT THE COLOR OF MINERALS?

http://chemistry.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.uvminerals.org/luminese.htm
Luminescence

http://www.physik.rwth-aachen.de/~harm/aixphysik/atom/discharge/index1.html
Spectra of Gas Discharges

http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCESoft/CCA/CCA2/MAIN/FLAME/CD2R1.HTM
Colors of Elements in a Flame

Assignments for Week Four - Green Chemistry

Blog assignments for this week:

• Discover your “Catalyst of the Week” and post a brief description
• Post your thoughts on one of this weeks' discussion topics
  
• Explore Atom Economy and describe your findings
• Post a comment to a classmate’s blog

Check out the following links on Green Chemistry

www.green-innovations.asn.au/Green-growth-in-Asia-Pacific-Philip-Sutton's-paper.ppt:
Ensuring that Asia Pacific economic growth is truly environmentally sustainable
26 March 2005

http://academic.scranton.edu/faculty/cannm1/organicmodule.html
Atom Economy

www.greeningschools.org/docs/greenchemistryclockreaction.pdf
Sustainable Science: Green Chemistry in your Classroom