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* Integrated Science B
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* Chemistry B
Note: These pages are updated on a regular basis. Assignments for future days are a "best guess" and may be modified or changed on that day.
Test, quiz, and assignment dates are also a "best guess" and may be moved one or more days if needed.
If you need to plan in advance for a specific day, please contact Len Cerny.
INTEGRATED SCIENCE B - TRIMESTER 3
Week 1
Mon, 3/18 - Atomic Models Activity - Day 1
Tues, 3/19 - Atomic Models Activity - Day 2
Wed, 3/20 - All about atoms
Thurs, 3/21 - 2D arrays and the electron configurations patterns on the Periodic Table
Fri, 3/22 - Periodic Table continued - chemical properties and their relationship to electrons
3/23-3/31 - NO SCHOOL - SPRING BREAK
Week 2
Mon, 4/1 - Finish Atoms and Periodic Table
Homework: Study for atoms and periodic table test
Tues, 4/2 - ATOMS AND PERIODIC TABLE TEST
Wed, 4/3 - Valence and Intro to Ionic bonding
Thurs, 4/4 - "Bonding Basics - Ionic Bonds" worksheet
Homework: Finish part 1 and part 2 of "Bonding Basics - Ionic Bonds" worksheet
Fri, 4/5 - Modeling Covalent Bonding
Homework: Finish "Bonding Basics - Covalent Bonds" worksheet
Week 3
Mon, 4/8 - Ionic, covalent, and metallic bonding lab - Part 1
Homework: - Finish first page of questions
Tues, 4/9 - Testing Unknown Solids Lab
Homework: - Finish Lab sheet and determine which substance is which
Wed, 4/10 - Ionic, Covalent, and Metallic Bonding Review
Homework: - Finish "Ionic Covalent and Metallic Compounds Review" & Study for Chemical Bonding Quiz
Thurs, 4/11 - CHEMICAL BONDING TEST
Fri, 4/12 - NO SCHOOL - TEACHER WORK DAY
Week 4
Mon, 4/15 - Building organic molecules with molecule kits - Carbon chains and rings
Homework: Finish questions on worksheet
Tues, 4/16 - Building organic molecules with molecule kits - Carbohydrates
Homework: Finish questions on worksheet
Wed, 4/17 - Building organic molecules with molecule kits - Proteins and Fats
Thurs, 4/18 - Food Testing Lab
Fri, 4/19 - Finish food Testing Lab
Week 5
Mon, 4/22 - Review Food Testing Lab, organize information
Tues, 4/23 - Discuss LD-50 & review of organic chemistry
Homework: Study for Organic Chemistry Test
Wed, 4/24 - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY TEST
Thurs, 4/25 - Inertia, Newton's first law and force lab with Mr. Quandt
Fri, 4/26 - NO SCHOOL - DISTRICT DAY OFF
Week 6
Mon, 4/29 - Finish force lab with Mr. Quandt
Tues, 4/30 - Velocity, vectors, free-body diagram with Mr. Quandt
Wed, 5/1 - Net force with Mr. Quandt
Thurs, 5/2 - Newton's second law with Mr. Quandt
Fri, 5/3 - Newton's third law with Mr. Quandt
Week 7
Mon, 5/6 - Graphing displacement, velocity and acceleration & Applying Newton's 3rd Law to collisions (with Dr. Cerny)
Tues, 5/7 - Balanced and unbalanced forces & Newton's Laws review with Mr. Quandt
Wed, 5/8 - NEWTON'S LAWS QUIZ
Thurs, 5/9 - Waves, frequency, period, amplitude, wavelength, and start spring wave lab
Fri, 5/10 - Finish spring wave lab
Week 8
Mon, 5/13 - Water waves lab
Tues, 5/14 - Resonance and Natural Frequency Labs
Wed, 5/15 - Resonance, natural frequency, earthquakes, and building design
Waves review
Thurs, 5/16 - Sound, electromagnetic spectrum, and review
Fri, 5/17 - WAVES QUIZ
Week 9
Mon, 5/20 - Intro to Acids and Bases Lab - Day 1
Tues, 5/21 - Intro to Acids and Bases Lab - Day 2
Wed, 5/22 - Intro to Acids and Bases Lab - Day 3
Thurs, 5/23 - "Applying Knowledge of Acids and Bases Lab"
Fri, 5/24 - Review of Acids and Bases
Week 10
Mon, 5/27 - NO SCHOOL - MEMORIAL DAY
Tues, 5/28 - ACIDS AND BASES TEST
Wed, 5/29 - Reaction Rates Lab - Day 1 - Particle size
Thurs, 5/30 -Reaction Rates Lab - Day 2 - Concentration and effects of stirring
Fri, 5/31 - Reaction Rates Lab - Day 3 - Temperature
Week 11
Mon, 6/3 - Finish question for Reaction Rates Lab and start Iodine Clock Reaction Lab - Day 1 - Ratios of chemicals
Tues, 6/4 -Iodine Clock Reaction Lab - Day 2 - Concentration
Wed, 6/5 - Iodine Clock Reaction Lab - Day 3 - Temperature
Thurs, 6/6 - Discuss enzymes, "Applications of Reaction Rates" WS, Review for rates of reaction quiz
Fri, 6/7 - CHEMICAL REACTION RATE TEST
Week 12
Mon-Fri - Solar cars, nuclear science, and review for final exam
Week 13
Mon-Wed - FINAL EXAM and other activities
Thurs, June 20 - Half Day - Last day of 2012-2013 School year.
PHYSICS B - TRIMESTER 3
Week 1
Mon, 3/18 - Intro to waves, equation for waves
Tues, 3/19 - Standing waves, wave speed and the speed of sound
Wed, 3/20 - Color demonstrations
Thurs, 3/21 - Human perception of color
Fri, 3/22 - Silver & gold, Sunsets, Why is the sky blue?, "black light"
March 23-31 - NO SCHOOL - SPRING BREAK
Week 2
Mon, 4/1 - Wrap-up of color unit
Tues, 4/2 - Review for color quiz
Wed, 4/3 - COLOR QUIZ
Thurs, 4/4 - Refraction
Fri, 4/5 - Lenses and ray diagrams
Week 3
Mon, 4/8 - Len's Lens Lab - establishing focal length
Tues, 4/9 - LENS LAB TEST
Wed, 4/10 - Total internal reflection, fiber optics and rainbows,
Thurs, 4/11 - polarization, wave superposition, adding and canceling sound waves
Fri, 4/12 - NO SCHOOL - TEACHER WORK DAY
Week 4
Mon, 4/15 - Diffraction and interference patterns from two sources - adding and canceling of light and sound, Start laser diffraction and interference lab
Tues, 4/16 - Laser diffraction and interference lab - day 2 - diffraction and spreading of light
Wed, 4/17 - Laser diffraction and interference lab - day 3 - mathematical derivation and effect of slit spacing
Thurs, 4/18 - Laser diffraction and interference lab - day 4 - effect of frequency
Fri, 4/19 - Laser diffraction and interference lab - day 5 - calculating slit spacing and laser frequency
Week 5
Mon, 4/22 - Laser diffraction and interference lab - day 6 - multiple slits and finding the spacing of threads on a curtain
Tues, 4/23 - Laser diffraction and interference lab - day 7 - single slit intereference, pinhole diffraction, separation of light using diffraction gratings
Wed, 4/24 - iridescence, thin oils, bubbles, rainbows
Thurs, 4/25 - Rainbows continued, Doppler Effect, police radar, water waves, tsunami, hyperbolic trig functions and tsunami wave speed, resonance and earthquake building design
Fri, 4/26 - NO SCHOOL - DISTRICT DAY OFF
Week 6
Mon, 4/29 - Fall colors, Doppler Effect & Review of waves, light and sound
Tues, 4/30 - Police Radar, Sound Refraction & Review of waves, light and sound
Wed, 5/1 - Discuss Laser Lab
Thurs, 5/2 - Review of waves, light and sound
Fri, 5/3 - WAVES, LIGHT, AND SOUND EXAM with Mr. Quandt
Week 7
Mon, 5/6 - Intro to Modern Physics - Quanta and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Tues, 5/7 - Wave-particle duality and Bose-Einstein Condensates
Wed, 5/8 - Rotational inertia, angular momentum and gyroscopes(Half the class at school activity)
Thurs, 5/9 - Schroedinger's Cat, quantum tunneling, virtual particles, probability
Fri, 5/10 - Non-locality & Wrap up of quantum mechanics; Intro to sub-atomic particle physics
Week 8
Mon, 5/13 - Nuclear reactions and half life
Tues, 5/14 - Movie "Mindwalk"
Wed, 5/15 - Movie "Mindwalk"
Thurs, 5/16 - The "final" model of the atom
Fri, 5/17 - E = mc^2, Quarks and leptons
Week 9
Mon, 5/20 - Special relativity
Tues, 5/21 - General relativity
Wed, 5/22 - Movie, "A Brief History of Time"
Thurs, 5/23 - Finish Movie, "A Brief History of Time" & Wrap-up of relativity
Fri, 5/24 - Chaos and Fractals
Week 10
Mon, 5/27 - NO SCHOOL, MEMORIAL DAY
Tues, 5/28 - Chaos and Fractals & Ultra-quick overview of thermodynamics
Wed, 5/29 - Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics
Thurs, 5/30 - FTL - "Faster Than Light" - examples of things going faster than light (even though nothing goes faster than light)
Fri, 5/31 - Review of Modern Physics
Week 11
Mon, 6/3 - Review of Modern Physics
Tues, 6/4 - MODERN PHYSICS EXAM
Wed, 6/5 - "Bad Physics" Movie day
Remainder of Term
Astronomy, astrophysics, dark matter, dark energy
Physics - special topics
CHEMISTRY B - TRIMESTER 3
Week 1
Mon, 3/18 Review of Chem A Parts of atoms (protons, neutrons, electrons), electron shells, organization of periodic table, ionic charge, creating balanced molecules, writing formulas, polyatomic ions, chemical equations synthesis, decomposition, single replacement, double replacement
Tues, 3/19 Review of Chem A Moles, molecular weights, Stoichiometry, limiting reagents
Wed, 3/20 Review of Chem A Hydrates with stoichioimetry and limiting reagents
Thurs, 3/21 - Finish review of Chem A & Intro to hydrchloric acid and magnesium lab
Fri, 3/22 - HCl + Mg lab - Day 1- Conducting Reaction
SPRING BREAK 3/23-3/31
Week 2
Mon, 4/1 - HCl + Mg lab - Day 2 - Measurement and Calculations
Tues, 4/2 - HCl + Mg lab - Day 3 - Write-Up
Homework: Finish lab write-up
Wed, 4/3 - Zinc & CuSO4 Lab - Day 1 - Heat released with various quantities of zinc
Homework: Finish HCl + Mg lab write-up, if not already done
Thurs, 4/4 - Mg + HCl LAB DUE (50 points)- Zinc & CuSO4 Lab - Day 2 - Determining concentration of CuSO4 in Day 1 lab, prepping for Day 3
Homework: Find information about hydrates of zinc sulfate
Fri, 4/5 - Zinc & CuSO4 Lab - Day 3 - Quantitative reaction - Prepare appropriate quantities of reactants and conduct reaction
Week 3
Mon, 4/8 - Zinc & CuSO4 Lab - Day 4 - Separation of precipitate from solution
Tues, 4/9 - Zinc & CuSO4 Lab - Day 5 - Measurements and analysis
Wed, 4/10 - Zinc & CuSO4 Lab - Day 6 - Write-Up
Thurs, 4/11 - Zn + CuSO4 lab write-up
Fri, 4/12 - NO SCHOOL - DISTRICT TEACHER WORK DAY
Week 4
Mon, 4/15 - Finish Zn + CuSO4 lab write-up
Homework: Finish lab write-up
Tues, 4/16 - Zn & CuSO4 LAB DUE (50 Points) - Conceptual Intro to Ideal Gas Laws & Intro to Ideal Gas Law WS
Wed, 4/17 - Using PV = nRT with chemical reactions & Stoichiometry
Homework: Ideal Gas Law WS #1-6
Thurs, 4/18 - Combination problems with the ideal gas law
Homework: Ideal Gas Law WS #7-9
Fri, 4/19 - Time to work on Zn + CuSO4 lab revisions and to work on gas law problems
Week 5
Mon, 4/22 - Compressing a Syringe - Lab Problem & Start review
Homework: Study for Ideal Gas Law Test
Tues, 4/23 - Review for Ideal Gas Law Test
Homework: Study for Ideal Gas Law Test
Wed, 4/24 - Review for Ideal Gas Law Test
Homework: Study for Ideal Gas Law Test
Thurs, 4/25- Review for Ideal Gas Law Test
Homework: Study for Ideal Gas Law Test
Fri, 4/25 - NO SCHOOL - DISTRICT DAY OFF
Week 6
Mon, 4/29 - IDEAL GAS LAW TEST (50 Points)
Tues, 4/30 - Hydrogen gas lab - day 1 - Planning the experiment
Wed, 5/1 - Hydrogen gas lab - day 2 - Making and collecting hydrogen gas and other product
Thurs, 5/2 - Hydrogen gas lab - day 3 - Isolating aluminum chloride
Fri, 5/3 - Hydrogen gas lab - day 4 - Isolating aluminum chloride & Analyzing data
Week 7
Mon, 5/6 - Hydrogen gas lab - day 5 - Analyzing data & Lab write-up
Tues, 5/7 - Hydrogen gas lab - day 6 - Lab write-up
Wed, 5/8 - LD-50, toxicity and safety with toxic substances
Thurs, 5/9 - Introduction to Aspirin
Fri, 5/10 - Aspirin synthesis
Week 8
Mon, 5/13 Collecting and measuring aspirin, stoichiometry
Tues, 5/14 - Testing white powders
Wed, 5/15 - Testing white powders
Thurs, 5/16 - Prep for Melting point Lab
Fri, 5/17 - Measuring melting point of SA and ASA
Week 9
Mon, 5/20 - Iron(III) ion test & Finish measuring melting point of SA and ASA
Tues, 5/21 - Spectrophotometry test
Wed, 5/22 Aspirin Lab Expectations, Discuss safety of sample and how to do write up
Thurs, 5/23 Aspirin Lab Expectations and write-up
Fri, 5/24 - Time in class to retest on spectrophotometer if needed
Week 10
Mon, 5/27 NO SCHOOL, MEMORIAL DAY
Tues, 5/28 - Aspirin lab write-up in computer lab
Wed, 5/29 - Aspirin lab write-up in computer lab
Thurs, 5/30 - Aspirin lab write-up in computer lab
Fri, 5/31 - Aspirin lab write-up in computer lab
Week 11
Mon, 6/3 ASPIRIN LAB DUE write abstract in computer lab
Tues, 6/4 Intro to nuclear chemistry