• Update data book
• Correct assignments
• Begin review
• Period 6 final exam Monday June 10 10:17-12:17
• Period 4 final exam Tuesday June 11 10:17-12:17

• Chemistry of Climate change exam
• Submit Ideal gas law problem set

• Gas law lab (Day 2 of 2); lab due Thursday
• post-lab quiz on Friday; know: laws studied in the lab, the factors that make up the laws, what is our purpose for doing the lab (learning outcome)?
• Lab debrief
• Ocean acidification exam on Thursday

• Gas law lab (Day 1 of 2); lab due Thursday; post-lab quiz on Friday
• Ocean acidification exam on Thursday

• Correct 1-7 page 385; homework check /2
• Ideal gas law problem set: do practice problems on page 174 (2 a-f) and Additional problems #s 1-4 page 181; due Thursday
• Ocean Acidification exam Thursday May 30; exam outline will be posted in Edmodo this weekend

• Questions on Gas law problem set? Due Friday
• Notes: Ideal Gas law
• Read 383-385
• Do 1-7 page 385; due tomorrow

• Correct 1-6 page 375 (homework check /2)
• Do Gas law problem set #1: do practice problems page 149, 153, 161 and Additional problems #s 1-5 page 167. All additional problems must be done on lined paper showing all steps and units throughout

• Correct Practice problems #1 page 370 and #s 1 & 2 page 372
• Notes: Gas Laws
• Do 1-6 page 375

• Notes: Gas Laws
• Read 369-372
• Do Practice problems #1 page 370 and #s 1 & 2 page 372

• Phenomena: Ammonia fountain
• Complete Notes: Water Cycle
• Global warming
• Phenomena: water cycle

• Complete notes on Carbon cycle
• Phenomena: pressure on a can
• Phenomena: inflate a balloon
• Phenomena: boil water without adding heat
• Notes: Water cycle

• Phenomena: Atmosphere globe
• Complete notes from yesterday
• Notes: Carbon cycle

• Complete video: Sierra in Peril
• Video: Global Warming
• Notes: Gases and Pressure; Diffusion

• Video: Global Warming: Sierra in Peril

• Homework: find a feedback system in your home and be prepared to describe it
• Notes: Kinetic molecular theory
• Do Chapter 10 section 4 w.s.; due Tuesday

• Begin Global Warming unit; Brainstorm driving question: What is causing the global CO2 levels to rise and how else does it affect our planet?
• Revisit Combustion activity: how does it apply to global warming?
• Notes: Feedback systems
• Homework: find a feedback system in your home and be prepared to describe it (Wednesday)

Ocean Acidification exam

• Submit Ocean Acidification lab
• Complete notes on Factors that affect dissolving
• Review exam outline
• Unit Exam #2 tomorrow; exam outline is posted in Edmodo
• Tutoring after school from 3:15-4:15

• Eggshell Acidity Experiment: questions for analysis? Due tomorrow
• Complete notes on electrolytes
• Notes: Factors that affect dissolving
• Work on your analysis.

• Solution quiz
• Take final readings from Egg shell lab; debrief; discuss final steps; due Tuesday
• Complete demos
• Continue notes

• Take lab readings and amend solutions as necessary
• Discuss and debrief Cabbage Juice lab; submit
• Notes: Factors that affect dissolving
• Demo: Saturated solutions

• Cabbage juice lab; due tomorrow

• Notes: Factors that affect dissolving
• Correct #s 1-4 page 443 and Practice Problem B page 440 #s 1-4
• Demo: Saturated solutions

• Take lab readings and amend solutions as necessary
• Complete Colloids discussion
• Demo: Colloids
• Notes: Factors that affect dissolving
• Do #s 1-4 page 443; due tomorrow
• Do Practice Problem B page 440 #s 1-4; due tomorrow

• Take lab readings and amend solutions as necessary
• Complete notes from yesterday
• Correct 1-6 page 406; homework check /2
• Notes: Liquid Mixtures and Colloids

• Take lab readings and amend solutions as necessary
• Notes: Solutions
• Read pages 401-406; do 1-6 page 406

• Using materials available, set-up lab systems (4 cups)
• Take initial readings
• Set aside (have access easy so you can take readings each day); use a piece of paper towel to mark which cup is which
• Properties of solutions

• Submit pH problem set
• Submit Chapter 15 section 1 w.s.
• Set-up Egg Shell/invertebrate shell experiment
• Sodium alginate reading

• Questions from pH problem set and Chapter 15 section 1 w.s.
• Design the Egg shell experiment using the following driving question: What happens to water when CO2 levels in the air surrounding the water increase?

• Bring your textbook with you to class today
• Complete pH problem set; due Tuesday April 23rd
• Do Chapter 15 section 1 w.s.; due Tuesday April 23rd

• pH problem set: Do all practice problems (pages 262 and 264 of the problem set) and “Additional Problems” #s 1-3; due Tuesday April 23rd

• Given the concept of pH, you will be able to solve problems involving pH and prove by answering the questions 80% correctly.

• Acid and Base quiz
• Notes: Solutions
• Read pages 401-406; do 1-6 page 406

• Complete pH notes from yesterday
• Correct pH problems
• Acid Base quiz tomorrow: know the properties of acids and bases; acid base definitions, pH range of acids and bases; examples of each

• Correct 1-3 Page 489
• Notes: pH
• Sample problem
• Do Practice Problem A #s 1-4 page 502; due Tuesday
• Sample Problem
• Do Practice Problem B #1a-d page 505; due Tuesday

• Correct 1-3 page 482
• Notes: Ionization of Acids and Bases
• Read 483-489
• Do #s 1-3 page 489; due Monday

• Complete video; submit question sheet
• Notes: Definitions of Acids and Bases
• Read 478-482
• Do 1-3 page 482; due tomorrow

• Homework check #s 1-5 page 476
• Video: Acids and Bases; submit question sheet when finished

• Brainstorm properties of acids and bases
• Notes: Acids and Bases
• Read 467-476
• Do 1-5 page 476; due tomorrow

• Jigsaw reading assignment #2: Using same groups, refine your ideas as to the cause of ocean acidification; document your claim, evidence (from text, NOT personal opinion or experience) and reason why this evidence supports your claim
• Complete Jigsaw reading assignment #3: locate and discuss additional factors that can affect the acid level of the ocean

• Jigsaw reading assignment #2: Using same groups, refine your ideas as to the cause of ocean acidification; document your claim, evidence (from text, NOT personal opinion or experience) and reason why this evidence supports your claim

• Rules for Jigsaw reading (roles)
• Discuss reading results from yesterday; document consensus results
• Jigsaw reading assignment #2: Using same groups, refine your ideas as to the cause of ocean acidification; document your claim, evidence (from text, NOT personal opinion or experience) and reason why this evidence supports your claim

• Equilibrium lab quiz
• Submit Equilibrium lab
• Jigsaw reading assignment: in pairs, students will divide the article up evenly and then each read their portion. Once both students are finished, they will each describe what their portion of the article was about.

• Equilibrium lab debrief; lab due tomorrow
• Lab quiz tomorrow; know: definitions from lab sheet, safety hazards and precautions, factors that affect equilibrium, specific factor we are manipulating in this lab (independent variable)
• Equilibrium quiz on Thursday
• Return and correct assignments

• Submit Objectives journal (after recording objective)
• Submit Chemical Equilibrium w.s.
• Equilibrium (wet) lab; due Wednesday

• Questions from Chemical Equilibrium w.s.
• Continue notes: Factors that affect equilibrium

• Equilibrium lab quiz
• Chemical Equilibrium w.s.; due Monday

• Equilibrium lab quiz moved to tomorrow
• Correct 1-6 page 604; homework check /2
• Notes: Le Chatelier’s Principle
• Begin notes: Factors that affect Equilibrium

• Submit Factors that affect Equilibrium Concept Map
• Equilibrium virtual lab post lab quiz tomorrow: know the properties that affect equilibrium, examples of how they affected the system, how we would determine how a change occurred, and how we would know in which direction the reaction favored (shifted)
• Notes: Recognizing Equilibrium systems
• Demo: Phenolphthalein and Acids and bases
• Notes: Concentration and Equilibrium
• Read 598-604
• Do 1-6 page 604; due tomorrow

• Final questions on CER? Submit CER
• Notes: Equilibrium
• Complete Concept Map: comparing factors that affect reaction rates to factors that affect equilibrium; due tomorrow

• Equilibrium and Le Chatelier’s Principle virtual lab; see Edmodo link; lab due Monday
• Each lab group will complete and submit a “Claim, evidence, reasoning” statement for the lab

• Equilibrium and Le Chatelier’s Principle virtual lab; see Edmodo link; lab due Monday
• Each lab group will complete and submit a “Claim, evidence, reasoning” statement for the lab

• Brainstorm: Reactions that are reversible
• Brainstorm: factors that can affect reaction rates
• Notes: Equilibrium
• Correct 1-4 page 595

• Submit IRIS Activity
• Complete work from yesterday
• Read 589-595
• Do 1-4 page 595; due tomorrow

• Update data book
• Correct assignments
• Look ahead to new unit: Ocean Acidification
• Complete IRIS activity; due tomorrow

Energy Unit exam: multiple choice and free response (latent heat problems)

• Complete IRIS activity; due Tuesday
• Describe the types of energy transformations that we have discussed in this unit
• Plickers
• Energy Unit exam on tomorrow

CSU Chico field trip; list on posted near the front office

• Perform IRIS activity using materials provided
• Day 2: Theoretician
• Use the data provided to calculate the effect of the earthquakes on earth’s interior

• Perform IRIS activity using materials provided
• Day 1: Seismologist
• (if time allows we will start Day 2 due to shortened period tomorrow)

• Video: Mapping the Heat beneath the Earth
• How do we know what the Earth’s interior looks like?
• Notes: Seismic Waves

• Quiz: Plate Tectonics
• Complete notes on Plate movement
• Discuss significance of convection in the Earth’s interior

• Notes: Plate movement
• Discuss how the concept of plate movement support the theory of plate tectonics
• Discuss how the concept of convection explains plate movement

• Discuss CER from yesterday and submit
• Plate tectonics quiz on Thursday
• Unit summary so far…
• Test outline in Edmodo

• Notes: Seafloor spreading
• Complete CER for the question: What is the mechanism that explains how earth’s lithosphere (rocky surface) is moving?

• Complete notes on Continental Drift
• Notes: Seafloor spreading

• Notes: Continental Drift
• Tsunami video

• Submit “Illustrating Plate Tectonics” activity sheet
• Continue notes on Tectonic plates

• Complete “Illustrating Plate Tectonics” activity from Friday; due tomorrow

• Video: Tectonic Plates
• Activity: Illustrating Plate Tectonics

• Demo: Liquids and energy
• Demo: heat transfer
• Demo: burning bill

• What is convection? Convection simulation; middle school convection model
• How does a lava lamp work?
• How can a lava lamp be used as a model to explain convection?
• Notes: Plate Tectonics

• Discuss chapter 10 worksheets; submit
• Homework check 1-7 page 332 /2
• Complete notes on Kinetic Molecular Theory

• Given the kinetic-molecular theory of matter, you will be able to describe how the theory explains certain properties of matter and prove by completing a worksheet correctly.
• Given the concept of changes of state, you will be able to interpret phase diagrams and prove by completing a worksheet correctly.

• Do chapter 10 section 1 w.s.; due on Tuesday
• Read pages 342-348
• Do chapter 10 section 4 w.s.; due Tuesday

• Complete Heat of Fusion lab
• Discuss Heat of Fusion lab calculations; lab due tomorrow
• Post-lab quiz tomorrow: know definitions from lab sheet; be able to compare and contrast your lab design with the lab that we did

• Conduct Heat of Fusion lab

• Complete planning for Heat of Fusion lab
• Set-up lab for tomorrow

• Complete computer simulation: Thermal difference between substances with different specific heats
• Computer simulation: does heat flow faster through a hotter source?
• Demonstration: thermal differences between metals
• Design Heat of Fusion lab

• Complete PhET simulation
• Heat capacity between 2 metals: make a prediction of what will happen in terms of heat transfer between 2 metals
• Zeroth Law demonstration

• Correct 1-7 page 591; homework check /3
• PhET simulation: Energy forms and changes; complete activity sheet and submit

• College Week: science progression and course selection
• Review Laws of Thermodynamics
• Read 546-550
• Do 1-7 page 550; due tomorrow

• Discuss Final exam
• Course outline semester 2
• Course selection
• Jobs available 2025-2026