1. Chemistry 1,2 – Aug 15, 2018, Chemistry 8 – Aug 16, 2018
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Pick up a file card and a student handbook, and Verification sheet.
Then complete a contact card with the following information:
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Albert’s Life Lesson for August
Show me your digital
or hard copy of the
Syllabus.
Today: About the course and Chemistry, in general

2. Objectives and Agenda Assignment:
Student Handbook, 1) Schedules 2) Conduct and Open Campus 8) Attendance
Course Overview Objectives
Know how the units of the course for the year are organized
Know how the course will be evaluated
Know how the class time and activities will generally proceed
Know the behavioral expectations for the course and the corresponding consequences, including how absences are handled.
Agenda
Review syllabus
Learning models and Chemistry overview (if time allows)
Assignment:
Syllabus Verification, signed by you and a parent/guardian due by Aug 20/21

3. The Learning Curve How we Learn Don’t know Know Think 2)
Can identify what you don’t know
Scanning provides this information
Uncomfortable or exciting
Ready to learn
Goal setting 3)
Know it when you think about it
Educated
Practice helps 2  3
Requires work/energy
Use it or lose it
Pride of accomplishment
Don’t think 1)
You don’t know what you don’t know
Ignorance is bliss 4)
Know it, even if you don’t think about it
Mastery
Like riding a bike, or reading
Hard to unlearn or forget
Changes who you are (even physically)

4. What you know or can do alone
The Reach
What you know or can do alone
You with help
The great unknown
What all humankind knows or can do
The Reach

5. Understanding Chemistry
Chemistry is the scientific study of matter, its properties, and its behavior.
Intro to chemistry video
Conceptual levels
Macroscopic
Atomic / Submicroscopic
Theoretical
Communication methods
Symbols
Names
Measurements / Math
When studying chemistry, keep in mind what type of understanding is involved.

6. Macroscopic
Everything around you, including you, consists of chemicals
Observable and measurable.
Laws are statements that summarize what we have observed.
Ex: Law of Conservation of Mass

7. Atomic Fundamental material nature of everything.
Not easily observable, but can be observed using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Usually think about conceptually, based on theories.

8. Theoretical
Theories are ideas that help us explain why things happen at the atomic or macroscopic scale and predict future possible observations.
Ex: Atomic Theory Ex: Quantum Mechanics Ex: Theory of relativity
More or less well founded, but always falsifiable and open to reinterpretation
These three theories are so well founded that they are considered nearly factual.

9. Symbolic Au NaHCO3 CH3COOH
Different letter(s) represent different atoms
Combinations of letters represent compounds and/or molecules
SAME SYMBOLS REFER TO BOTH MACROSCOPIC AND ATOMIC SCALES

10. Names Common Names: Baking Soda Vinegar
Chemical Nomenclature: Sodium bicarbonate Acetic Acid

11. Mathematical
Using math to measure quantities and describe relationships
Macroscopic quantities can be measured
Atomic quantities can be calculated
Theoretical relationships between quantities can be modeled with equations and algebraic formulas

12. Careers that use chemistry
Comprehensive list of chemistry careers compiled by the American Chemical Society
career/chemistry-careers.html
The Subdivisions of Chemistry called Areas of Chemistry and Areas of Applied Chemistry
chemistry.html

13. Some pretty amazing chemistry
Precipitation
Black snake reaction
Thermite reaction that was used to solder together railroad ties.
FFF7 An explosive reaction.
Chemiluminescence

14. Today’s Assignment What’s Due? (Pending assignments to complete.)
Syllabus Verification, signed by you and a parent/guardian due by Aug 20/21.
What’s Next? (How to prepare for the next day)
We will finish the introduction to chemistry and do safety training. You must attend and complete safety training and sign a safety contract or you will not be allowed to participate in laboratory activities and will receive a zero for all lab reports.