Days 41-46: More Titration

Find myself making a big stink about titration this year. We have done at least one titration each day over the last week and I'm gearing up for a qualitative review of buffers. Never seek to teach acid/base equilibrium corr stay and trying to take a more algorithmic approach with calculations to automate the quantitative moves faster in hopes of greater conceptual understanding. In search of a true connection to viticulture and enology I can do in class as well.

Day 40: New Tables!

Check out the new tables we got!

Day 39: Titration cont.

Continue titration activity by standardizing an unknown concentration of aqueous KHP.

Day 38: Titration

Began reactions unit by pitching titration as the central lab technique. I have a goal of TRYING a to leverage titration in everyday throughout this unit as we move from acid/base to redox as a way of positioning the content in a lab context but also pre-training students for titration curves and buffers. Excited to replace pH meter with conductivity probe and see how students negotiate the different dependent variable.

Days 33-37: Final Exam Review

Final review cumulated with a day of thought experiments and good times with magic sand as a way of interacting with intermolecular forces!

Day 32: Molarity Practice

Boring day in class. No pics from class so here's me with a guerrilla.

Days 26-32: Beer's Law, etc.

Have done a bunch of stuff in the past 6 days and have lagged on posting updates. Favorite activity was derivation of Beer's Law using blue dye of varying concentrations and path lengths via an overhead projector.