Monday March 31st, 2008

SNC 1D
1. Note/Lesson: The Electrostatic Series.
2. Handout: The Electrostatic Series.
3. Note/Lesson: Drawing Electrostatic Charges.
4. Assigned work (worksheet): Electrostatics Assignment - due tomorrow.

SNC 2P
1. Note/Lesson: Food Chains
2. Assigned work: Read p. 22-25, do p. 25 #1-4. Time given in class. If unfinished, complete for tomorrow.
3. Food web activity.

SNC 2D
1. Note/Lesson: Food Chains.
2. Food web activity.
3. Assigned work: Read p. 34-36, do p. 39#1-6

Friday March 28th, 2008

SNC 1D
1. Very short class. (Anti-Racism Assembly).
2. Assigned work: Read 9.1, do p. 300#1-4


SNC 2P
1. Introduction to Ecology.
2. Handouts: Ecology Definitions & Ecology Crossword. Use your textbook to complete both.

SNC 2D
1. Introduction to Ecology
2. Handouts: Ecology Definitions & Ecology Crossword. Use your textbook to complete both.

Thursday March 27th, 2008 (Grade 10 Literacy Test Special Timetable)

SNC 1D
1. Take up/correct Chemistry Unit Test.
2. Work on "Trends" lab if necessary and hand in.

SNC 2P
1. Take up/correct Chemistry Unit Test.

SNC 2D
1. Take up/correct Chemistry Unit Test.

Wednesday March 26th, 2008

SNC 1D
Chemistry Unit Test!

SNC 2P
1. Chemistry Unit Test!
2. Reminder: Grade 10 Literacy Test is tomorrow morning! To determine where you will write the test, check the room list on the office windows.

SNC 2D

1. Chemistry Unit Test!
2. Reminder: Grade 10 Literacy Test is tomorrow morning! To determine where you will write the test, check the room list on the office windows.

Tuesday March 25th, 2008

SNC 1D
1. Chemistry Test Review. Unit test tomorrow!!
2. Reminder: Trends Lab due Thursday.

SNC 2P
1. Chemistry Test Review. Unit Test tomorrow!!
2. Hand in: pH Indicator activity.

SNC 2D
1. Chemistry Test Review. Unit Test tomorrow!!
2. Hand in: pH Indicator activity.

Thursday March 20th, 2008

SNC 1D
1. Discussion: Trends in the Periodic Table lab (lab report due Thursday Mar. 27)
2. Reminder. Unit test is next Wednesday March 26. Download review sheets using instructions from post earlier this week. Try Chemistry review questions before Tuesday.
3. Quiz.

SNC 2P
1. Activity: Using red cabbage as a pH indicator.
2. Lesson/Note: Neutralization Reactions.
3. Reminder: Chemistry Unit test is Wednesday Mar. 26. Download review sheets and try to do the Chemistry questions before Tuesday. For more review, try p. 126-128 # 1-13,15,16,18.
4. pH indicator activity due Tuesday.

SNC 2D
1. Activity: Using red cabbage as a pH indicator.
2. Lesson/Note: Neutralization Reactions.
3. Reminder: Chemistry Unit test is Wednesday Mar. 26. Download review sheets and try to do the Chemistry questions before Tuesday. For more review, try p. 330-332 #1-23
4. pH indicator activity due Tuesday.

Wednesday March 19th, 2008

SNC 1D
1. Lab: Trends in the Periodic Table. (lab report will be discussed in class tomorrow and is due Thursday March 27th).
2. Check yesterday's post for textbook work due tomorrow.

SNC 2P
1. Continue pH activity from yesterday. Discussion question which needs to be answered was discussed thoroughly. Lab activity due Tuesday.
2. p. 115 #1-4 due tomorrow.

SNC 2D
1. Complete pH indicator activity from yesterday. Due Tuesday.
2. Lesson/Note: Making Acids and Bases.
3. Read p. 305-307, do p. 307 #1-4

Tuesday March 18th, 2008

SNC 1D
1. Lesson/Note: Trends in the Periodic Table.
2. Demo: Reactivity of sodium(most reactive) vs. magnesium (middle) vs. aluminum (least reactive).
3. Assigned work.
Read p. 256-264, do p. 264 #1,2,3,5,6 - due tomorrow.
Read p. 265-267, do p. 267 #1-3 - due Thursday.
Read p. 268-269, do p. 276 #1,2 - due Tuesday.
Read p. 198-204, do p. 204 #1,2 - due Tuesday.
Chemistry Unit Test is next Wednesday.
Go to: http://home.cogeco.ca/~parksidescience/Homework/GR91DHWK.HTM
and try the interactive quizzes on the left side of the page (density quiz, molecule quiz, chemistry quiz, chemical naming quiz).
Also: download these review sheets for the Unit test:
http://home.cogeco.ca/~parksidescience/Homework/SNC%201D%20Homework/Exam%20Review%20Sheets/Chem%20Exam%20Review%202007.doc
and
http://home.cogeco.ca/~parksidescience/Homework/SNC%201D%20Homework/Exam%20Review%20Sheets/More%20Chemistry%20Review%20Exam.doc

SNC 2P
1. Lesson/Note: The pH Scale
2. pH Indicator Activity (to be continued tomorrow).
3. Read p. 114-115, do p. 115 #1-4
Chemistry Unit Test is next Wednesday.
Go to: http://home.cogeco.ca/~parksidescience/Homework/gr10%202phwk.htm
and try the interactive quizzes on the left side of the page (chemical quiz 1, chemistry quiz 2, chemistry quiz 3).
Also: download these review sheets:
http://home.cogeco.ca/~parksidescience/Homework/SNC%202P%20Homework/SNC%202P%20Final%20Exam%20Review%202006.doc
and do the Chemistry questions.

SNC 2D
pH Indicator activity (to be continued tomorrow).
Chemistry Unit Test is next Wednesday. Go to:
http://home.cogeco.ca/~parksidescienceh/gr10%202dhwk.htm
and try the interactive quizzes on the left side of the page (chem quiz 1, chem quiz 2, chem quiz 3).
Also: download these review sheets:
http://home.cogeco.ca/~parksidescienceh/SNC%202D%20Homework/2D%20Exam%20Review%20Sheets.doc
and do the first 3 pages for Chemistry review.

Monday March 17th, 2008

SNC 1D
1. Science Log Entry:
a) Define: Octet Rule, Ionic Bond, Covalent Bond
b) Using sodium and oxygen: i) draw Bohr-Rutherford and Lewis Dot diagrams for both;
ii) State whether they will form an ionic or covalent bond and why;
iii) draw the compound they will form using Lewis dot diagrams.

2. Review concepts from before March Break.
3. Work on and take up a portion of Worksheet assigned March 7, "Nomenclature Assignment". The completed worksheet is due tomorrow.
The CHEMISTRY UNIT TEST will be next Wednesday March 26th.

SNC 2P
1. Lesson/Note: Acids and Bases with Indicator (red litmus, blue litmus, pH paper) activity.
2. Assigned work: Read 2.14. Do p. 107 #1-5
Chemistry Unit Test scheduled for Wednesday March 26th.

SNC 2D
1. Lesson/Notes: Acids and Bases, The pH Scale (with Indicator activity).
2. Assigned work: Read p. 293-295 and p. 296-298, Do p. 295 #2,3,4 and p. 299 # 1,2,3,4,7
Chemistry Unit test scheduled for Wednesday March 26th.

Friday March 7th, 2008

SNC 1D
1. Review Lewis Dot diagrams. Make a chart of several elements showing their Lewis Dot diagrams as well as their oxidation #'s. Take up.
2. Lesson/Note: Continue from yesterday with Ionic compound note. Also: Covalent compound note.
3. Assigned work: Ionic and Covalent Compounds Worksheet.


SNC 2P
1. Discussion of Lab: "Types of Chemical Reactions." Lab should be handed in today but can be handed in after March Break.
2. Lesson/Note: Rates of Reaction. Assigned work: Read p. 92-95, Do p. 95 #1-4
3. Alka-Seltzer rate activity.


SNC 2D
1. Hand in Lab Report: Types of Chemical Reactions.
2. Discussion: Rate Lab (Mg & HCl) - Time to make graph. Lab Report due Monday March 17th.
3. Alka-Seltzer rate activity.

Thursday March 6th, 2008 (Progress Report Day)

SNC 1D
1. Lesson/Note:Lewis-Dot diagrams and bonding.
2. Lesson/Note: Ionic Compounds.

SNC 2P
1. Lab: Types of Chemical Reactions.

SNC 2D
1. Lab: Rate of Reaction: Magnesium (Mg) and Hydrochloric Acid (HCl)
2. Types of Reactions Lab due tomorrow.

Wednesday March 5th, 2008 (1st progress report card tomorrow!)

SNC 1D
1. Review how to determine the number of protons, electrons, and neutrons in an atom.
2. Lesson/Note: Inside the atom Part 2: Isotopes and Bohr-Rutherford diagrams.
3. Assigned work: Complete the back of Subatomic Particle Worksheet (Bohr-Rutherford diagrams) - due tomorrow.

SNC 2P
1. Review balancing equations and Types of Reactions. Time to work on previously assigned worksheets.
2. Begin Lab: Types of Reactions.

SNC 2D
1. View hydrogen and oxygen demo (last Observation for "Types" lab). Lab report due Friday
2. Lesson/Note : Rates of Reaction
3. Assigned work:
Read 6.6 and 7.3
do p. 232 #3,4 and p. 264 #2-4 (due Friday)

Tuesday March 4th, 2008

SNC 1D
1. Lesson/Worksheet: How to Count Atoms (completed worksheet due tomorrow).
2. Lesson/Note: Inside the Atom (Part 1)
3. Worksheet: Subatomic Particle Worksheet (front due tomorrow).

SNC 2P
1. Review balancing equations.
2. Lesson/Note: Types of Chemical Reactions.
3. Worksheet: Types of Chemical Reactions (due tomorrow).

SNC 2D
1. Lab: Types of Chemical Reactions.

Monday March 3rd, 2008

SNC 1D
1. Hand in Physical/Chemical Activity Worksheet.
2. Lesson/Worksheet: "Grade 9 Daily" Classification of Matter Phys/Chem Change.
3. Lesson/Note: The Periodic Table of Elements.
4. Assigned work: Read p. 175-182, Do p. 182 # 2, Read p. 183-186, do p. 186 #4


SNC 2P
1. Review Balancing Equations & Use a chart to keep track of the number of Atoms on both sides of a Chemical Equation to work towards balancing the equation.
2. Take up part of the Balancing Equations worksheet.
Make sure p. 91 #1-3 and Balancing Equations worksheet are done for tomorrow. Check Friday's post for Chembalancer Assignment (due Friday).


SNC 2D
1. Review Types of Chemical Reactions.
2. Lesson/Note: Combustion (a 5th type of Chemical Reaction).
3. Work on assigned work (Types of Reactions worksheet and questions on p. 235 and p. 241)