Monday, December 15, 2014

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!

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Monday, December 1, 2014

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.

Friday, November 14, 2014

Day 25: Magic Sand

Post quiz Lab practical comparing traditional sand and magic sand. Students worked to induce chemical structures of both to explain observed differences in IMFs.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Day 24: FRQs

Sorta boring day working through AP FRQs on IMFs. However...TETRIX bots for FTC arrived today and the team was stoked!

Monday, November 3, 2014

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Day 22: Solubility

Used hexane, water, iodine demo to spark interest in hexane, water, copper sulfate solubility. Reversal of solute properties provided nice dissonance.