1. Chemistry.... Real Life Stuff !! Why Learn About Chemistry?
fascinating!
- we use it everyday!
- empower ourselves as consumers
p. S.Innes c. Ms. Jamieson

2. Chemistry Big Ideas 1) Prediction.
Can you predict how chemicals behave and react together?
2) Communication.
Be the scientist. Can you describe to someone about chemicals and their reactions?
3) Application.
Risks and Benefits. How do chemical reactions impact humans and our environment, both positively and negatively?

3. Forest Fire – Which Big Idea? photo courtesy wikipedia images

4. Acid Rain – Which Big Idea?
photo courtesy: weatherwizkids.com
Photo courtesy: acidrain2004.tripod.com

5. Health – seriously Big Idea!
What happens when we don’t get the Big Idea.

6. Is there a problem here?
HOW SWEET IT IS  The relative potency of sugar compared with artificial sweeteners.
sugar                                      1x
cyclamate                           45x
aspartame                        180x
saccharin                          300x
sucralose                          600x
neotame                      13,000x
Discover Magazine: August 2005, The Chemistry of Artificial Sweeteners
When the sweetener aspartame is digested, its methyl ester bond is broken down into methanol, which further degrades into formaldehyde. Both methanol and formaldehyde are toxic in high doses, but a person would have to drink 600 cans of diet soda to get as much of either substance as is contained in a single orange. Discover Magazine, August 2005

7. Big Idea Stuff to Help.... 1) Cheat Sheet Notes – Success Notes
2) SNC2P Website –
3) Big Idea Brainstorm - consolidate

8. Is Chemistry Here?