Tuesday September 30th, 2008

SNC 2D
1. Lesson/Note: Combustion.
2. Assigned work: Read 6.6, do p. 232 #1-6 (due Thursday)
3. Types of Reactions and Balancing review on SmartBoard.
4. Time to work on assigned questions.

SNC 3M
1. Work period. Continue working on genetics sheets and obtaining lifted prints using fingerprint dusting (see yesterday's post for assignment details).

SNC 1P
1. Page 12 activity. Show teacher completed observation chart and 3 test plates before the end of class. Answers to parts (d), (e), and (f) due tomorrow.
2. Handout: Grade 9 daily worksheet. Try all questions. Will be discussed in class tomorrow.

Monday September 29th, 2008

SNC 2D
1. Hand in Lab Report: Gas ... Which Gas?
2. Review Balancing Equations (including SmartBoard demonstration/participation).
3. Lesson/Note: Types of Chemical Reactions.
4. Assigned work:
Read 6.7 (p. 233-235) & 6.10 (p. 240-241)
Do p. 235 # 1-5 & p. 241 #1-3 (due tomorrow)
Also: Balancing Equations Worksheet 2 & Types of Reactions Worksheet (due Wed.)

SNC 3M
1. Genetics Quiz
2. Intro to Assignment (due Monday October 6th)
To be handed in:
A) All 6 completed genetics worksheets.
B) Several well labelled "lifted prints" using various dusting powders and lifted from various surfaces.
Well labelled includes:
- The type of powder and surface from which the print was lifted.
- The person, hand, and finger the print belongs to (if possible).
- The classification of the print if possible (loop etc.).
- Whether it was a "placed" print or a "found" print.
- The date.

SNC 1P
1. Lesson/Note: Classification of Matter with demonstrations and examples.
2. Begin to take up homework from Thursday. Several people not done, so some time was given to work on it. Be sure to have it complete for tomorrow!

Friday September 26th, 2008 (Learning Community Day)

SNC 2D
1. Time to work on balancing equations.
2. Balancing Equations Quiz & take-up.
3. Lab Report discussion & questions. Lab report due Monday.

SNC 3M
-No class

SNC 1P
-No class

Thursday September 25th, 2008

LEARNING COMMUNITY DAY TOMORROW - FULL LENGTH REGULAR CLASSES FOR PERIODS 1 & 2. EARLY DISMISSAL AT 11:45AM.

Today:
SNC 2D
1. Complete "Gas ... Which Gas?" Lab unknown gas testing. Lab will be discussed and worked on tomorrow (after the quiz), and completed lab report will be due on Monday.

SNC 3M
1. Genetics quiz moved to Monday.
2. Work period on genetics questions.
3. Mini lesson: Two-trait genetics.
4. Assigned worksheet: Human Genetics

SNC 1P
1. Lesson/Note: States of Matter and Particle Theory.
2. Movie: Bill Nye - States of Matter.
3. Assigned work (due Monday): Read p. 26-27, do p. 27 #1-4 and p. 28-31, do p. 31 #1-5

Wednesday September 24th, 2008

SNC 2D
1. Lab Activity: Gas ... Which Gas? Lab will be completed in class tomorrow and lab report will be due on Monday.
2. Due Friday: Chembalancer Assignment.
Instructions:
1. Click on the link below.
2. Click on Start game.
3. Balance the 11 equations by typing in different numbers of the various molecules. (If you balance the equations on paper separately, you will know what numbers to put in. Or, you can use the pictures on the screen and count atoms!)
4. Hand in: The 11 balanced equations written down on a piece of paper (or, print the final screen of the game where it says Congratulations and hand in that page with your name on it).
http://funbasedlearning.com/chemistry/chembalancer/default.htm

SNC 3M
1. Continue working on any questions from 3 genetics worksheets if necessary. Take up selected questions.
2. Worksheet & Activity: Human traits. Determine your phenotype for the 8 traits listed and then write your possible genotype(s). Using information from your parents, try to narrow down your possible genotype for all possible traits. (You may not be able to do this for all traits!)
3. Intro to dusting for latent prints.
4. Genetics Quiz tomorrow!

SNC 1P
1. Density demo involving 3 liquids of various densities each with the same piece of wood floating in it. Explanation of, and demonstration of a hydrometer for measuring density.
2. Density Columns Activity. Determine the density of 4 liquids of different colours and then "stack" them on top of one another to build a Density Column.
If everything was done very carefully, your density column looked something like this (but with different colours and not so perfect!)
http://www.scholarchemistry.com/images/9598000WebF.jpg

Tuesday September 23rd, 2008

SNC 2D
1. Lesson/Note: Balancing Chemical Equations.
2. Assigned work: Read 6.5, do p. 229 #1-3 and complete Balancing Equations Worksheet

SNC 3M
1. Lesson: How to solve a genetics problem (problem solving).
2. Lesson/Note: Semidominance/Incomplete dominance and Co-dominance.
3. Genetics worksheet 3 due tomorrow.

SNC 1P
1. Take up density worksheet.
2. Density activity: Coke vs Coke Zero / density and buoyancy.
3. Density 'practical test': Students take a solid object and individually calculate its density.

Monday September 22nd, 2008

SNC 2D
1. Activity: Take the mass of reactants before a chemical reaction and the mass of the products after the reaction. Use class data and calculate the average and variation to prove the Law of Conservation of Mass.
2. Lesson/Note: Law of Conservation of Mass
3. Assigned work: Read p. 218-223, do p. 223 #1-6

SNC 3M
1. Continue working on genetics worksheets #1,2
2. Lesson: Pedigrees, P, F1, F2 generations.
3. Assigned work: Genetics worksheet #3 (due Wednesday).

SNC 1P
1. Lesson: Using the water displacement method to determine the volume of an irregularly shaped solid; density and buoyancy; using the density formula.
2. Assigned work: Complete any part of Density worksheet not yet finished (front #1-6, back #1-15). Show work!

Friday September 19th, 2008

SNC 2D
1. Nomenclature Quiz & take-up.
2. Due Monday: Worksheets #5&6 and Read p. 196-198 do p. 198#1-7
Worksheet 5:
http://home.cogeco.ca/~parksidescienceh/SNC%202D%20Homework/Nomenclature%20Worksheet%205%20mixed%20binary.doc
Worksheet 6:
http://home.cogeco.ca/~parksidescienceh/SNC%202D%20Homework/Nomenclature%20worksheet%206%20mixed.doc

SNC 3M
1. Fingerprint Lab due ("Count Those Ridges").
http://home.cogeco.ca/~parksidescience/Homework/3M-f%20homework/Count%20those%20Ridges.doc
Also do questions on "Analyze those prints"
http://home.cogeco.ca/~parksidescience/Homework/3M-f%20homework/Analyze%20those%20Prints.doc
for an even better assignment!
2. Fingerprint Quiz 2
3. Genetics worksheet 2 handed out. Continue working on genetics worksheets 1&2.

SNC 1P
1. Activity: Physical or Chemical Change?
2. Lesson: Physical and Chemical changes.
3. Quiz 2
4. Density worksheet assigned. Try all questions for homework for Monday.

Thursday September 18th, 2008

SNC 2D
1. Lesson/Note: Nomenclature Flowchart (summary & review of all the types of compounds we have studied so far).
2. Assigned work (due Monday): Nomenclature Worksheets#5&6 and Read p. 196-198, do p. 198 #1-7. 40 minutes given in class to work on this.

SNC 3M
1. Continue genetics lesson.
2. Time given to work on Genetics Worksheet #1
3. Lesson: Variation.
Fingerprint Lab due tomorrow!!

SNC 1P
1. Lesson: Density
2. Assigned work (due tomorrow): Read p. 16-17, do p. 17 #1-3

Wednesday September 17th, 2008

SNC 2D
1. Hand in Lab Report: Bond? ... Which Bond?
2. Lesson/Note: Polyatomic Ions/Compounds
3. Assigned work (due tomorrow):
Multivalence Worksheet
http://home.cogeco.ca/~parksidescienceh/SNC%202D%20Homework/Nomenclature%20worksheet%202.doc
and
Nomenclature Worksheet #4 (Polyatomic Ions) Read p. 196-198 for help!
http://home.cogeco.ca/~parksidescienceh/SNC%202D%20Homework/Nomenclature%20worksheet%202.doc
Click the links for extra copies!

SNC 3M
1. Lesson: Continue Intro to Genetics. Define: genotype, phenotype, gene, allele, dominant, recessive, homozygous, heterozygous.
For more on these terms, look them up on google or wikipedia!

Below is the link to the class data for Count Those Ridges fingerprint lab (posted before 5pm!!). Due date extended to Friday!
http://fcinternet.hwdsb.on.ca/~noah.gardner/Fingerprint%20Symmetry%20Results%202008.doc?FCItemID=S02EB93E0

SNC 1P
1. Measurement lesson.
2. Complete measurement activity.
3. Take up measurement results.
4. Homework (due tomorrow): Make sure measurement page is complete. On the back of the page, explain 2 or 3 things which are important for good measuring (hopefully things you learned today)!

Tuesday September 16th, 2008

SNC 2D
1. Questions regarding Lab: "Bond? ... Which Bond?" Lab report due tomorrow.
2. Complete Note: Multivalence.
3. Assigned work: Multivalence Worksheet: due Thursday.

SNC 3M
1. Discussion regarding Lab due Thursday. See post from last Wednesday for details on the assignment. Download "Count Those Ridges" for a copy of the lab sheet or click here:
http://home.cogeco.ca/~parksidescience/Homework/3M-f%20homework/Count%20those%20Ridges.doc
I was unable to post class data chart today. It will be posted tomorrow.
2. Input fingerprints into computer using USB fingerprint scanning software.
3. Intro to genetics note.

SNC 1P
1. Bill Nye: Measurement
2. Begin Careful Measurement activity.

Monday September 15th, 2008

SNC 2D
1. Collect data for the two unknowns for Lab: Bond? Which Bond?
LAB REPORT DUE WEDNESDAY!
2. Lesson/Note: Multivalence
3. Assigned work: Read p. 192-195, do p. 195 #3-10

SNC 3M
1. Ridge Counting Lab. Count ridges on all fingers (both hands). Obtain total ridge count. Collect class data.
Due Thursday or Earlier!: Ridge Counting Lab plus:
2 (or more!) index cards with your 10 (hopefully more!) prints obtained through various methods (ink, print strips, pencil & tape).
Fingerprint classification clearly labelled for all 10 prints.
All deltas and at least 20 minutiae labelled.

SNC 1P
1. Complete Bunsen burner Lab & hand in. Due tomorrow if not handed in today.
2. Assigned work: Read p. 14-15, do p. 15 #1-3

Friday September 12th, 2008

SNC 2D
- Short Class - Student Council Assembly.
1. Quiz 1. Marked and taken up in class.
2. Collect data for Lab: Bond? Which Bond? Lab due Tuesday.

SNC 3M
1. Quiz 1
2. Continue identifying minutiae on collected prints.
3. Intro to Ridge Counting.

SNC 1P
1. Quiz 1
2. Complete Bunsen burner lab.
3. Take up WHMIS page.
4. Complete Safety note.

Thursday September 11th, 2008

SNC 2D
1. Discussion and intro to Lab "Bond? Which Bond?"
2. Begin Lab activities (to be continued tomorrow).
Quiz tomorrow. Be able to draw Bohr-Rutherford and Lewis-Dot diagrams, as well as determine compound names and chemical formulas.

SNC 3M
1. Continue Fingerprint notes. Today: Minutiae and Pores. Here is a copy of the 12 minutiae diagrams shown in class:
http://home.cogeco.ca/~parksidescience/Homework/3M-f%20homework/Basic%20and%20composite%20ridge%20characteristics.doc
2. Take prints using the graphite pencil and tape method.

SNC 1P
1. Bunsen Burner activity. Learn to use a Bunsen burner and complete various activities to learn about the properties of the flame(s).
Ex: The blue flame (when the air intake is open) is cleaner and hotter than the orange flame (when air is closed).

Wednesday September 10th, 2008

SNC 2D
1. Take up homework.
2. Lesson/Note: Part 2 of Smartboard Presentation: Covalent Bonding
3. Assigned work: Complete Nomenclature Worksheet 3 and Read 5.11 Do p. 204 #1-6

Get a copy of the Covalent worksheet here:
http://home.cogeco.ca/~parksidescienceh/SNC%202D%20Homework/Nomenclature%20Worksheet%203%20or%204%20Covalent%20Compounds.doc

SNC 3M
Use Fingerprint strips to take fingerprints and try to get clearer prints than yesterday . Record prints of all 10 fingers on two index cards and classify each print according to the Henry Classification System. Use the website: http://www.policensw.com/info/fingerprints/finger07.html to help with classification.
Note: Prints used in the judicial process. Answer 3 questions for homework.

SNC 1P
1. Science Log: Properties
2. Complete Station Activity (Complete written questions & Conclusions for homework).
3. Begin Safety note.

Tuesday September 9th, 2008

SNC 2D
1. Take up homework.
2. Day 1 of SmartBoard bonding presentation: Ionc Compounds.
3. Assigned work: Nomenclature I worksheet: "Binary Ionic Compounds".


SNC 3M
Use ink to take fingerprints. Record prints of all 10 fingers on two index cards and classify each print according to the Henry Classification System (ulnar loop, radial loop, plain arch, tented arch, plain whorl....). Some people only got 5 prints today. Should have 10 after tomorrow's class.
Use the website: http://www.policensw.com/info/fingerprints/finger07.html to help with classification.
- No homework except to complete questions from yesterday: 1. What is meant by open? (refers to a fingerprint loop), 2. What does this mean with respect to comparing loops on different hands?, 3. What are the radius and the ulna?

SNC 1P
1. Lesson/Note: Observations & Questions.
2. Begin Station Observation activity - to be completed tomorrow.

Monday September 8th, 2008

SNC 2D
1. Lesson/Note: Bonding/Lewis-Dot diagrams/Oxidation Numbers
2. Assigned work: Complete chart in note, Read 5.6, do p. 189#1-4

SNC 3M
1. First day of Fingerprint note/presentation.
No homework.

SNC 1P
1. Science Log: How an injury could change your life.
2. WHMIS worksheet. Complete names of WHMIS symbols on worksheet & find 6 containers in the room with different WHMIS symbols.
No homework.

Friday September 5th, 2008

SNC 2D
1. Take up first half of Subatomic Particle worksheet; remainder of worksheet due Monday.
2. Lesson/Note: Ions.
3. Assigned work: Read 5.5, do p. 187 #1,2,5-8

SNC 3M
1. Read p. xvi-xvii, so that you will have now read p. vi - p. xvii this week.
2. Astrology experiment.
3. Movie: Bill Nye - Pseudoscience.
No homework.

SNC 1P
No class - Panther Pack Activity - Water Games!

Thursday September 4th, 2008

SNC 2D
1. Take up homework from yesterday.
2. Note: Inside the Atom Part 2 & Bohr-Rutherford diagrams.
3. Assigned work: Subatomic Particle Worksheet - for tomorrow complete down to Argon on the front as well as the first two rows on the back.

SNC 3MF
1. Read p. xi-xv.
2. With a partner, complete Activity 0.3 on p. xv
3. Class discussion: Urban legend or Scientific fact.
No homework.

SNC 1P
1. Take up "Tools of the Trade" and Part D from worksheets handed out yesterday.
2. Work on part B of worksheets. For tomorrow, complete the chart and total for each pair of students.
3. Handout: Science Notebook Expectations & discussion.

Wednesday September 3rd, 2008

SNC 2D
1. Worksheet: Grade 9 Daily (due tomorrow)
2. Notes: Classification of Matter & Inside the Atom
3. Assigned work: Read 5.1, do p. 175 #1-6

SNC 3M
1. Read p. vi - x , define in notes: Science, Scientific Theory, Scientific Law
2. Black box activity / investigation.

SNC 1P
1. Two worksheets:
A) Room Activity
B) Tools of the Trade and Room Map
2. Complete for tomorrow: Parts A,C,D on Room Activity worksheet.

Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 - Welcome Back!

SNC 2D
1. Course Outline handed out, Student information Sheet filled out & handed in. Review of various topics from grade 9.
2. Textbooks handed out.
3. Please bring in as soon as possible:
Student Fee: $20
Yearbook: $35 (optional)
Science Lab Contribution: $5

Bonus word: beaker


SNC 3MF
1. Course Outline & textbooks handed out.
2. Student Information Sheet (filled out & handed in).
3. Review of selected Grade 9 & 10 topics.
4. Please bring in $5 Science Lab Contribution as soon as possible.

Bonus word: density


SNC 1P
1. Course Outline handed out & discussion.
2. Student info sheet filled out & handed in.
3. Review of selected grade 8 topics.
4. Please bring in $5 Science Lab Contribution as soon as possible.

Bonus word: Universe