PS-Chem Weekly Plans

1/13-1/17  Week 2


Monday

Lab safety discussion & lab tour

HW - Sign & return safety contract (due FRIDAY)

Tuesday

Video - atomic #, mass #, charge --> Link

Parts of the atom practice --> Link

HW - Protons, neutrons, electrons --> Link (reassigned from last week)

Wednesday

More parts of atom practice

Notes - Intro to Bohr atom & atomic spectra

Intro to flame testing lab

Thursday

Quiz - Parts of the atom

All homework due at end of unit (but stay caught up!)

Friday

Lab - Flame testing

1/6-1/10  Week 1


Monday

Course intro & expectations

HW - Return signed syllabus

Tuesday

Book checkout

Active reading strategy

HW - Read/KTU section 4.2

Wednesday

Academic effort - How to be successful in chemistry class

Effort rubric

Hand out objectives

Thursday

Notes - History and parts of the atom

Hand out periodic table --> Link

HW - Protons, neutrons, electrons --> Link

Friday

Notes - Parts of the atom continued

Parts of the atom practice --> Link

Semester 1

12/16-12/20  Finals Week


Monday

Review for final exam

Tuesday

Go over unit 4 test

Review for final exam

Wednesday

Finals periods 1,2,3

Thursday

Finals periods 4,5

Friday

Finals periods 6,7

12/9-12/13  Week 18


Monday

Notes - Stoichiometry

HW - Stoichiometry wkst --> 

Tuesday

Go over quiz

Practice with moles & stoichiometry

Wednesday

Quiz - Stoichiometry

Thursday

Go over quiz

Study for exam

Friday (PLC schedule)

Test - Unit 4 exam

All unit 4 formative work due

12/2-12/16  Week 17


Monday

Notes - Chemical equilibrium

HW - Read/KTU section 7.5 & 7.1

Tuesday

Notes - LeChatelier's principle

HW - Equilibrium worksheet --> Link

Wednesday

Quiz - Chemical reactions

HW check

Thursday

Notes - Unit conversions

Friday

Notes - The mole and molar mass

HW - Molar mass wkst --> Link

11/25-11/29  Week 16


Monday

Thermochem crash course video

Notes - Thermochemistry

HW - Thermo & rates wkst --> Link

Tuesday

Notes - Reaction rates

Iodine clock demo

Wednesday

No school

Thursday

No school

Friday

No school

11/18-11/22  Week 15


Monday (Barnes out)

Practice with chemical word equations

HW - Word equations practice worksheet --> Link

Tuesday

Pre-ACT

Wednesday

Go over quiz

Lab - Reaction types

Thursday

Lab - Reaction types

HW - Read/KTU sections 7.3/7.4

Friday

Wrap up lab

Notes - Intro to thermochemistry


11/11-11/15  Week 14


Monday (Barnes out)

Video - Balancing chemical equations

Phet - balancing equations practice --> 

HW - Reaction types & balancing wkst --> Link (Balancing portion)

Tuesday

Notes - How to balance chemical equations

Balancing equations practice

Wednesday

Notes - Reaction types

HW - Read/KTU section 7.3/7.4

Thursday

Reaction types practice

Predicting products

Friday

Quiz - Balancing equations & reaction types

11/4-11/8  Week 13


Monday

Review & study for exam

Retake covalent bonding quiz??

HW - Study for exam!

Tuesday

No school

Wednesday

Test - Unit 3 exam

HW check

Thursday

Hand out objectives

Notes - Chemical reactions/equations intro

HW - Read/KTU section 7.1/7.2

Friday

Go over test

Practice balancing equations

10/28-11/1  Week 12


Monday

Notes - Intermolecular attractions

Water/alcohol demo

Tuesday

Notes - Ionic vs covalent properties

Wednesday

Go over quiz

Intro to lab

Thursday

Lab - Ionic vs covalent

Friday

Lab - Ionic vs covalent

Unit test is next week!

10/21-10/25  Week 11


Monday

Practice lewis structures

HW - Lewis structures --> Link

Tuesday

More Lewis practice

Notes - Polar bonds

HW - Read/KTU section 6.2

Wednesday

Notes - Intermolecular attractions

Thursday

Practice with polar bonds and IMAs

Review for quiz

Friday

Quiz - Covalent bonding

HW check

10/14-10/18  Week 10


Monday

No school

Tuesday

No school

Wednesday

Ionic bonding review

Notes - Covalent naming rules

Thursday

Go over quiz

Covalent naming practice

HW - mixed naming worksheet --> 

Friday

Notes - Lewis structures

Practice drawing Lewis structures

10/7-10/11  Week 9


Monday

Go over unit 2 exam

Practice with ionic formulas

Notes - Polyatomic ions

HW - Ionic bonding worksheet --> Link (revisited from last Friday)

Tuesday

Notes - Ionic naming rules

Wednesday

Ionic naming practice

HW - Naming worksheet --> Link

Thursday

Quiz - Ionic bonding

Friday

No school

9/30-10/4  Week 8


Monday

Review for unit 2 exam

HW - unit 2 objective work

Tuesday

Go over quiz

Review/study for exam

Wednesday

Test - Unit 2 exam

All formative work due

Thursday

Hand out unit 3 objectives

Notes - Intro to chemical bonding

HW - Read/KTU 6.1/6.3

Friday

Notes - Ionic bonding, writing ionic formulas

HW - Ionic bonding worksheet --> Link

9/23-9/27  Week 7


Monday

Notes - Dot diagrams, octet rule, charges

Tuesday

Notes - Coulomb's law and pull

Wednesday

Go over quiz

Notes - Electronegativity, ionization energy, reactivity

HW - Periodic table review --> Link Link

Thursday

Periodic table practice

Review for quiz

Friday

Quiz - Periodicity

HW check

Unit 2 exam mid next week

9/16-9/20  Week 6


Monday

Recap Friday & metal vs nonmetal organization

Notes - Periodic table organization

HW - Read/KTU sections 5.2/5.3

Tuesday

Video - Mendeleev's periodic table

Notes - History of the periodic table

Wednesday

Go over unit 1 test

Unit 1 reflection

Intro to periodic table puzzle activity

Thursday

Periodic table puzzle practice

HW - Periodic table puzzle worksheet --> Link

Friday

Periodic table practice

Quiz - CFA 3.2

9/9-9/13  Week 5


Monday

Notes - Valence electrons & Lewis dot diagrams

Limitations of the Bohr model

Bohr model practice

Tuesday

Go over quiz parts of atom quiz

HW - Unit 1 objective work --> Link

Wednesday

Review/study for unit 1 exam

Thursday

Test - Unit 1 exam

HW check

Friday (Barnes out)

Hand out unit 2 objectives

Color code periodic table

Notes - Metals vs nonmetals

9/3-9/6  Week 4


Monday

Labor day

Tuesday

PLC day

Wednesday

Debrief & discuss lab

Spectroscopy demos

Bohr atom intro

Thursday

Notes - Bohr atom & diagrams

HW - Bohr diagrams

Friday

Quiz - Parts of atom & Bohr

Unit 1 Exam next week

8/26-8/30  Week 3


Monday

Lab safety discussion & tour

HW - Sign & return safety contract

Tuesday

Notes - Parts of the atom

Parts of the atom practice --> Link

HW - Protons, neutrons, electrons --> Link

Wednesday

Go over quiz

More parts of atom practice

Thursday

Even more parts of atom practice

Intro to Bohr atom & atomic spectra

Intro to the lab

Friday

Lab - Flame testing

8/19-8/23  Week 2


Monday

Classification of matter wrap up & practice

HW - Matter classification worksheet --> Link

Tuesday

Chemical changes demo

Notes - Physical vs chemical changes

HW - Read/KTU section 4.2

Wednesday

Notes - Physical vs chemical properties

Thursday

Wrap up chemical properties & discuss tomorrow's quiz

Notes - History & parts of the atom

Hand out periodic table --> Link

Friday

Quiz - Matter classification & parts of the atom

HW check

8/12 - 8/16  Week 1

Monday

     9th Grade Orientation

Tuesday

     Welcome & class expectations

​     HW - sign and return syllabus

Wednesday

     Academic effort discussion - How to be successful in chemistry class

     Effort rubric --> Link

​     Hand out objectives

Thursday

     Book checkout

     Active reading strategy --> Link

     HW - Read section 2.1

     Matter classification intro

Friday

     Notes - Classification of matter