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This weeks online assignment is:

To look through the book and answer the following questions:
1) Which section looks the most interesting?
2) Which section looks the least interesting?
3) Which section do you think will be the hardest?

As a note - I usually won't have specific instructions on the weekly assignment unless it is going to be a complicated online post. This is partly because I will most likely base the online assignment on class discussions, so I will therefore not always know what will be going on here before I type out the assignment sheet.

Elise Bogut~
1)Modules 2,3,7,10 and 11 look the most interesting.
2)Modules 4,5,6,8,9 and 12 look the least interesting.
3)Modules 6,12,13,14,15 and 16 look the hardest.

1) Module #3 looks the most interesting!
2) Module #6 doesn't look as interesting.
3) Module #15 looks the hardest...

1)Module #10 looks the most interesting.
2)Module #5 looks not that interesting.
3)Module #15 is going to be the tough one.

1)Module 7 looks the most interesting
2)Module 4 looks the least interesting
3)Module 15 looks hardest

Okay, So I know today's lecture was confusing, and that is largely due to the organization of the book. As such, I would like each of you to research one of the concepts below (only one person per topic). DO NOT USE YOUR TEXT BOOK! At the end of the week, I would like everyone to check back on this site and read through what the others found. Hopefully this will help you all understand the subjects of atoms better.

1)Atoms - including protons, neutrons, electrons and their organization

2)The Periodic Table - what all the numbers in a box represents

3)What a mole is in science, and how it relates to the numbers in the periodic table and the law of definite proportions

4)How electrons are used in ionic and covalent bonding. (Why the bonds are different) and a reminder of ionic naming rules

5)Find 15 different ionic compound and write the names in both symbols and in words (ie: NaCl = sodium chloride). Make sure you have at least 5 ionic compounds that are not a 1:1 ratio so that the prefixes such as "tri" have to be used.

1) Atoms are the basic unit of matter that have a nucleus made up of protons and neutrons and electrons whizzing around the outside. The electrons are bound to the nucleus by an electromagnetic force, which also binds atoms together to make molecules. Any normal atom will have the same number of protons and electrons, but if it doesn't it has either a positive charge, or a negative charge making it an ion.

2) First is the atomic number, which is the number of protons in an individual atom of that element. Second is the mass of a single atom in said element.

http://science.widener.edu/~svanbram/ptable_6.pdf
the link to the periodic table I printed out

weird, apparently on tuesday it didn't post.. so here is the link again
http://www.ptable.com/

http://www.infovis.net/imagenes/T1_N188_A1204_Tabla_en.gif

lol i remembered XD

My vocab should be in the attached file area at the top, i can't find your email adress

This weeks online assignment is: watch the following link and let me know if it helped you and how it helped you. If it didn't help with your overall understanding, let me know why.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BZBzFwVXl4

It definitely helped me understand it more. A person explaining it is always better then a book for me

It didn't really help me because I already knew what I was doing before i watched the video.

I saw the video. Nothing I didn't know from you telling us in class, but it was definitely easier to understand than how the book describes it.

This weeks online assignment is: to write 3 review questions to help prepare you for your exam on Nov 14th.

Is this our assignment for week 11?

Im looking for week's 11 assignment and its not here. If there is one could you email it to me?

Thanks

Here are the ones I've found...
http://www.aaas.org/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/
http://www.newscientist.com/
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/
and
http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/
http://www.science.gov/
http://www.sigmaxi.org/member/blogs/index.shtml
http://www.ase.org.uk/home/
http://www.ciesin.org/

good sites, but remember, I also need a verification of WHY they are good sites/what makes them reliable sites.

1. http://www.chalkbored.com/lessons/chemistry-11.htm
This website was created from a teacher in high school that is aimed towards 11th and 12th grade chemistry
2. http://www.chemspider.com/
if you type in water in this website, it would show you the Lewis struture for the compound, it looked useful to me
3. http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtext/chembond/
another website that shows and explains certain material in our chemistry
4. http://www.chemical-stoichiometry.net/index.html
A helpful web page to help with balencing chemical equations
5. http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtext/matmeasure/mm1-wrap.shtml
This web site includes charts showing the ranges of the scales such as length, mass, temperature, etc. that are important in chemistry